Senior Engineering Manager

Board Intelligence; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Personal performance bonus

26 days holiday each calendar year

Bupa health & dental cover

Group life assurance

EAP

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Board Intelligence is expanding its engineering leadership to build AI-powered products for demanding clients. You will lead, mentor and contribute technically within a collaborative engineering leadership team, while staying hands-on and shaping architecture.

The role emphasizes coaching, high standards, and coaching teams across experience levels, with a strong focus on AI-enabled engineering and delivering value to enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience with a track record of leading engineering teams.
• Hands-on ability with recent production code experience.
• Proven coaching, mentoring and growing engineers.
• Broad stack knowledge with deep expertise in at least one area.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Clear, confident communication and influence at all levels.
• Experience using AI coding tools and understanding their impact on teams.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the engineering leadership team, driving improvements to delivery culture and strategy.
• Stay hands-on, writing code and building products within a pod.
• Coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow and shaping career paths.
• Shape technical architecture and key decisions with the CTO and other leaders.
• Hire and develop strong engineers as the team grows.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering grounded in solid fundamentals.
• Work with product and business to deliver client needs.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

Coaching & mentorship

System design

Communication

AI tooling experience

English fluency

Job description

Board Intelligence is a technology and advisory firm on a mission to make boards more effective, and through them, build better businesses and benefit society.

Over twenty years we have established ourselves as the market leader in governance and board effectiveness, trusted by more than 80,000 directors, executives, and governance professionals globally, including across the Fortune 500, FTSE 100, and OMX 30. That trust has been earned through depth of insight, rigorous advisory work, and a track record that newer entrants simply cannot replicate.

We have invested in applied AI since 2020, well ahead of the market, and that early conviction has paid off. Our AI-powered platform and smart board advisor give us a competitive advantage that is widening, not narrowing. In 2024, K1 Investment Management, the leading B2B Enterprise SaaS investor, backed us to accelerate that position further. We are now growing fast, with a proven commercial model spanning both mid-market and enterprise, and a product suite that has become a necessary addition in high-stakes board environments.

The people joining us now will shape how we scale. We are deliberate about how we do that. Our founders and leadership team are deeply invested in keeping the culture that got us here: thoughtful, high calibre, and genuinely human. Ambition and balance are not in competition at Board Intelligence.

If you want to work at the intersection of AI and governance, on problems that matter at the highest level, this is a strong place to be.

Our Mission

We unleash the potential of organisations through the science of board effectiveness, building better businesses and benefitting society.

The Role

Board Intelligence is growing fast, and our engineering team is at the centre of that growth. We are building AI-powered products for some of the most demanding clients in the world, and we need exceptional leaders to help us do it.

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to join our engineering leadership team. At Board Intelligence, engineering leaders are also hands-on builders: you will lead and grow a team while staying technical and contributing to our products.

This role needs real seniority. We are looking for someone who coaches and mentors naturally, sets high standards and brings people with them. You will combine broad technical knowledge with deep expertise in at least one area.

Main Responsibilities

• Be part of our engineering leadership team, driving continuous improvements to our software delivery culture and strategy.
• Stay hands-on, writing code and building products within one of our pods.
• Coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow and contributing to clearer career paths across engineering.
• Shape technical architecture and key decisions with the CTO and other engineering leaders
• Hire and develop strong engineers as the team grows
• Champion AI-assisted engineering that is built on solid fundamentals
• Work closely with product and the wider business to deliver what our clients need

Person Specification

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive software engineering experience, including a proven track record of leading engineering teams.
• Hands-on technical ability, with recent experience writing production code
• A track record of coaching, mentoring and growing engineers
• Broad technical knowledge across the stack, with deep expertise in at least one area
• Strong system design and architecture skills
• Clear, confident communication and the ability to influence at all levels
• Experience using AI coding tools, and a view on how they change the way teams work
• Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to haves

• Experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS company
• Experience building for enterprise clients, ideally in regulated industries
• Experience designing career frameworks or engineering levels
• Experience leading remote or distributed teams

What good looks like in this role

• After three months: you know your team, our products and our clients, you have built trust, and you are contributing code
• After six months: your team is delivering consistently to a higher standard, and you are helping to hire and grow engineers
• After twelve months: you are a trusted leader across engineering, your team is strong and growing, and you are shaping the direction of engineering at Board Intelligence

Our Values

• Kindness & caring — We celebrate brilliance that comes without big egos or sharp elbows, and we win while raising each other up.
• Curiosity & innovation — Entrepreneurship is in our blood. We’re inquisitive, challenge convention, think big, and move fast.
• Remarkable quality & service — We take joy from delighting our clients and pride ourselves on ensuring every interaction is exceptional.

Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Personal performance bonus
• 26 days holiday each calendar year
• Bupa health & dental cover
• Group life assurance
• EAP
• Cycle to work scheme

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Board Intelligence is committed to building a team that reflects the breadth of experience, background and perspective needed to do this work well. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.

If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please let us know and we will accommodate them.