Engineering Manager: Lead AI‑Driven Teams (Hybrid)

Legal Counsel - 12 month FTC at Rightmove Greenhouse; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional product development teams in a hybrid Milton Keynes office environment. You’ll build healthy, high-performing teams, ensure delivery focus, and partner with Product Managers to align priorities and plans.

You’ll also hire and mentor engineers, shape team structure, and drive scalable system design with a focus on quality and resilience.

Qualifications

• Prior experience managing software engineers in a product development environment.
• Strong delivery and improving team ways of working.
• Confidence in planning, estimation, scope, and stakeholder alignment.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to build trust across a wide range of people and roles.
• Calm, thoughtful, and pragmatic approach – especially under high stakes or ambiguity.
• Genuine interest in growing others through coaching, feedback, and performance development.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more cross-functional product development teams and enable high performance.
• Support the growth of engineers through clear development goals, coaching, feedback, and mentoring.
• Partner with Product Manager to align priorities, capacity, and scope with clear goals.
• Hire, onboard, and grow diverse engineering talent; shape team structure over time.
• Collaborate with PMs, tech leads, architects, and other EMs to improve system design.
• Encourage testing, observability, performance, and resilience; own production systems.
• Represent the team in cross-functional planning and manage risks with pragmatic trade-offs.

Skills

Experience managing engineers

Delivery-focused leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Rightmove is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional product development teams in a hybrid Milton Keynes office environment. You’ll build healthy, high-performing teams, ensure delivery focus, and partner with Product Managers to align priorities and plans.

You’ll also hire and mentor engineers, shape team structure, and drive scalable system design with a focus on quality and resilience.