Senior Engineering Manager

Akeneo; London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Engineering Leader, where your impact will be felt from day one! This role offers you the chance to shape technical direction and team culture while driving innovation within a collaborative environment. You'll lead a high-performing team, making autonomous decisions that prioritize customer value and outcomes. With a flexible work model and a commitment to personal fulfillment, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a culture that values open communication and shared successes. If you are passionate about engineering leadership and want to make a difference, this is the place for you!

Qualifications

• Significant experience in engineering management with a strong technical background.
• Hands-on experience in software development and modern technologies.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize customer value and outcomes, driving impact through autonomous decision-making.
• Build and develop a high-performing team while ensuring technical excellence.

Skills

Engineering Management

Technical Leadership

Software Development

Analytical Skills

Change Management

Inclusive Leadership

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere.

We’re all about experience - from the best-in-class product we build to the inspiring environment we create for our employees. You’ll grow in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise will make an impact from day one. Our flexible work model empowers you to thrive, balancing professional success with personal fulfillment. At Akeneo, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values open communication, shared successes, and meaningful relationships.

Learn more about our culture and values via our Career page.

Job description

We are seeking an exceptional Engineering Leader with a strong bias towards action and impact to join our growing team. Our organisation follows an AWS-inspired structure, where each Product Line operates independently under a Single Threaded Owner (STO) at VP level. Within each Product Line, multiple Area Single Threaded Owners (Area-STOs) at Director level guide several Impact Teams. Each Impact Team is a cross-functional unit of approximately eight engineers, designers, and PMs who work autonomously, driving innovation through their own processes and methodologies.

This Engineering role will contribute to one of our various Impact Teams, which focus on different areas of our product. The specific team will be determined based on your performance and interests during the general interview process (see below). You will be crucial in shaping both the technical direction and the team culture, developing robust, scalable solutions that unlock our platform's next phase of growth. Success in this role means owning outcomes, driving execution, and delivering measurable impact within defined parameters.

As a leader, your primary focus will be creating outsized impact through others. You'll build and develop a high-performing team while ensuring technical excellence and sustainable delivery. Reporting directly to an Area-STO, you will work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders to drive our engineering initiatives forward.

Responsibilities

1. Customer Value Focus: You prioritise customer value and outcomes over rigid process adherence.
2. Autonomous Decision-Making: You independently make rapid and courageous decisions to drive impact. You use data, examples, and use case validations to justify team expansions, topic prioritisation, and roadmap changes.
3. Proactive Change Management: You embrace and advocate for change, prioritising company goals while supporting team and individual growth.
4. Communication & Alignment: You increase transparency and alignment by effectively communicating information between teams, championing the team's achievements, and addressing concerns with leadership.
5. Build a High-Performing Team: Motivate engineers through a culture of learning and development, implementing effective performance reviews and career development plans.
6. Challenging Technical Decisions: You encourage and challenge technical decisions, architecture, and standards, engaging with team members at all levels and seeking expertise when needed. You ensure that the products developed are scalable and have low maintenance requirements.
7. Business-Focused Leadership: Collaborate closely with product and business leaders to align technical solutions with business needs, ensuring the engineering team’s efforts directly contribute to the broader product strategy and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

1. Proven Experience: You have significant experience in engineering management with a strong track record in both technical and people leadership roles.
2. Technical Proficiency: You have hands-on experience in software development and a solid understanding of modern technologies and best practices.
3. Autonomous Leadership: You demonstrated the ability to make timely, high-quality decisions independently.
4. Data-Driven Mindset: You have strong analytical skills to justify decisions with concrete data and examples.
5. Proactive and Positive: You approach change management proactively and you have a positive attitude towards supporting company goals.
6. Inclusive Leadership: Your strong leadership skills give you the ability to foster a supportive, inclusive, and high-performing team environment. You demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
7. A fluent level of English.

Interview process

All interviews will be conducted remotely and ideally within two weeks, depending on your availability. We are asking for a total of around seven hours of your time. There are no take home exercises, coding tests or surprises. We will not continue the process if you do not pass a step, this is to save you time and effort. If we decided not to move forward we will provide you with feedback.

1. Screening
   • Phone Screen: If your application has caught our attention, you will receive an invitation to a short conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists, where you'll learn more about the role and about Akeneo.
   • Hiring Manager Chat: This short interview will allow you to go in more depth into what the role entails and discuss your experience and skills.
2. General Interview Loop: These interviews ensure you are qualified to join Akeneo and that you have what the Product Line needs at this point in time. Before each interview you will receive an email detailing the types of questions you will be asked and who your interviewers will be so you can research and prepare.
   • Technical Deep Dive: You will spend two hours with the CTO and our most senior Staff Engineer to discuss how you would solve a complex problem with limited knowledge and understanding. They are looking to see how you think critically, expose gaps, navigate ambiguity, focus on impact and execute.
   • Behavioural Deep Dive: You will spend two hours with a cross-functional panel of peers. They are looking to see what it's like to work with you and how you add to our values. This interview relies heavily on examples from your past, so take some time to think back and write down some so you are best prepared.
3. Team Interviews: The general interview loop will assess your technical skills, personality and how you can add to our culture. During this process we will gain an understanding of where you fit best within the organisation and will select the team.
   • Area-STO & Impact Owner: You will spend an hour with the leaders of the team we feel you are best suited to. They will discuss what they are working on, some of the challenges they are facing and will be keen to see how you might be able to help.
   • Team Meet: Your entire team will want to meet you at this point for an hour to see if you are someone that they would like to work with and learn from. The team will be curious about you as a person and what you want for your next chapter.

At all stages of your recruitment process, our Talent Acquisition team is committed to giving you an update in a one-week time frame.

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