Engineering Manager

Signal AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading intelligence company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional teams. You will ensure the successful delivery of scalable solutions while managing the performance and development of your team. This role requires experience in fast-paced environments and a focus on building strong relationships and team dynamics. The ideal candidate will have a background in software engineering and empathy in leadership, ensuring teams thrive and achieve their goals.

Qualifications

• Experience managing cross-functional teams, ideally with software engineers and AI researchers.
• Ability to drive the performance and development of 5+ direct reports.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams and drive delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Build strong relationships through regular 1:1s and provide honest feedback.
• Identify flight risks and take steps to address underlying concerns.

Skills

Managing cross-functional teams

Performance management

Empathy

Effective communication

Job description

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About Signal AI

Signal AI is the External Intelligence company helping business leaders make sense of the outside world. Our platform transforms external data from traditional news and social media across 226 markets and 75 languages, providing companies with actionable insights designed to navigate enterprise risk, strengthen reputation, and fuel growth.

Our platform ingests diverse content from 5.4M+ documents and posts per day from more than 220,000 sources across published media, social media, podcasts, broadcast, and regulatory content. Our proprietary AI engine, AIQ, processes this vast amount of unstructured data in near real-time, turning it into actionable intelligence, enabling strategic and bold decision‑making.

Our unique approach, underpinned by a blend of generative and discriminative technologies, ensures businesses receive data‑driven insights that are both actionable and rigorously factual, setting a new benchmark for AI's role in strategic decision‑making.

The Role

We're seeking an Engineering Manager to lead talented cross‑functional teams and drive the delivery of high‑quality, scalable solutions. In this role, you'll be accountable for both people development and technical delivery outcomes, creating an environment where your team can do their best work while delivering meaningful impact to our customers.

You’ll be interrupt‑driven, actively creating focus for your engineers while ensuring decisions are made effectively and teams ship quality software sustainably at pace.

What you’ll do:

• Build strong relationships through regular 1:1s, setting clear expectations, providing honest feedback, and supporting individual motivation and growth.
• Manage 6‑12 cross‑functional individuals across one or more teams.
• Be accountable for ensuring your team is appropriately staffed, onboarded, and performing as expected.
• Proactively identify flight risks and take meaningful steps to address underlying concerns.
• Foster healthy team dynamics, strengthen ways of working, and support teams as they evolve.
• Work closely with Product and technical leaders to manage scope, meet delivery commitments, and communicate progress and risks clearly to stakeholders to amplify team impact.
• Contribute to pay, promotion, and performance reviews through transparent, evidence‑based, and equitable processes.
• Contribute to and help drive management practices and initiatives.
• Create a culture of ownership and accountability, empowering engineers to make decisions and work with autonomy.
• Help teams define clear goals and milestones, while challenging them to achieve ambitious outcomes.
• Maintain alignment between team goals and company objectives, keeping focus on what matters most.

You should apply if:

• You are comfortable operating in fast‑paced, evolving environments.
• You have experience managing cross‑functional teams, ideally including software engineers and AI researchers.
• You have managed the performance and development of 5+ direct reports, including senior engineers and technical leads.
• You have experience managing the full employee lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention.
• You have prior experience working as a senior software engineer.
• You lead with empathy and build strong, effective working relationships.
• You are motivated by supporting others to achieve their goals, sustain their wellbeing, and grow as engineers.
• You communicate clearly and effectively across a range of audiences.

Not sure you meet every requirement?

Studies show that women and other underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply unless they check every box. At Signal AI, diverse perspectives strengthen our teams, drive innovation, and lead to better performance. So even if your background doesn't align perfectly with each qualification, we encourage you to apply if you're passionate about this role.

We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every Signaller feels welcomed, valued, and heard—a place where you can truly thrive as yourself.