Director of Software Engineering

Usercentrics; Lisboa; Híbrido; EUR 120 000 - 160 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Usercentrics is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams within our Product & Engineering organization. This role is hands-on leadership, owning delivery, technical health, and people development, while partnering with engineering leadership on cross-cutting priorities.

We are building an AI-native engineering organization and expect you to drive AI-assisted development and set the judgment for responsible use from day one.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of experience in engineering management, including managing multi-team setups.
• Track record of taking on ambiguous, systemic problems, scaling a struggling system, reducing technical debt, or restructuring a team's ways of working.
• Strong cross-functional partnership, especially with Product, influencing roadmap and priority decisions as a stakeholder.
• Demonstrated ability to develop engineering managers, not only individual contributors.
• Sufficient technical depth to engage in architecture and design discussions without writing production code.

Responsabilidades

• Own your group's outcomes, delivery predictability, and shipped results.
• Own the technical health of the systems, manage debt and scaling risk.
• Grow and improve the managers and engineers in your group.
• Turn vague problems into concrete, sequenced plans and execute.
• Diagnose root causes and act on headcount, skills, process, or scope as needed.
• Communicate trade-offs honestly and align estimates with reality.
• Lead the management layer and collaborate with Product and other engineering teams on priorities.

Conhecimentos

Engineering management

Multi-team leadership

Cross-functional partnership

People development

Architecture discussion

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Hybrid (minimum of 2-3 days a week from the office)

Shape the Future of Privacy

Usercentrics is a global leader in data privacy and privacy-led marketing solutions. We believe there is no need for a trade-off between growth and privacy compliance. Our vision is to unlock the potential of data privacy to empower a thriving digital ecosystem. We work with companies to create a healthy balance between data-driven business and privacy-led marketing for every size of enterprise. Our customers build trust with their users through improved transparency and control to drastically improve marketing and monetization, while achieving full privacy compliance.

We are actively looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead a group of multiple engineering teams within our Product & Engineering organization. This is a hands-on leadership role and you'll own delivery, technical health, and people development for the teams under you, while partnering with the rest of engineering leadership on cross cutting priorities. We're building a more AI-native engineering organization, and this role is central to making that real within the teams you lead.

How We Work: AI-Native by Default

Usercentrics is actively pushing AI adoption across engineering for real efficiency gains. This isn't background context, it's a working expectation. As a Director, you're expected to actively drive AI-native ways of working within your teams: adopting AI-assisted development where it genuinely helps, and building the judgment in your teams to use it well rather than uncritically. This is a real, current expectation on how you'll run your teams from day one, not an aspirational nice-to-have.

What You Will Do

Own your group's outcomes

• Own delivery predictability for your group from roadmap input through estimation, execution, and shipped results
• Own the technical health of the systems your teams are responsible for, including how technical debt and scaling risk are identified, prioritized, and worked down over time
• Own the growth and performance of the managers and engineers in your group, including developing your managers into stronger people leaders themselves
• Turn a vague or partially defined problem, a struggling system, a scaling wall, an under-resourced area into a concrete, sequenced plan, rather than waiting for it to be fully defined for you
• Diagnose root cause, not just symptoms: work out whether an underperforming or overloaded team's real issue is headcount, skill composition, process, or scope and act on the right one
• Build and maintain a realistic view of what your teams can commit to, communicate trade offs honestly to stakeholders, and close the gap when estimates and reality diverge

Lead people and influence outcomes

• Treat developing the management layer under you as a primary responsibility, teaching judgment, not just assigning tasks
• Work fluently with Product, other engineering groups, and company leadership on cross-team priorities where you can't rely on direct authority
• Bring engineering-informed judgment into roadmap prioritization you're expected to help shape what gets built and when, not just execute what's handed to you

Stay technically grounded

• You won't be writing production code day to day, but you're expected to understand your teams' systems well enough to follow the implications of technical decisions, engage credibly in design discussions and incidents, and ask the right questions before problems become expensive
• Connect team-level work to company-level goals, making sure your teams' priorities visibly contribute to the broader organization rather than operating in a silo

Requirements

Must-haves

• 5+ years of experience in engineering management, including managing multi-team setups (managing managers, not only individual engineers)
• A track record of taking on ambiguous, systemic problems, scaling a struggling system, working down significant technical debt, or restructuring a team's ways of working and driving them to a concrete outcome
• Strong track record of cross-functional partnership, particularly with Product, and of influencing roadmap and priority decisions as a stakeholder rather than a downstream executor
• Demonstrated ability to develop engineering managers, not only individual contributors
• Enough technical depth to engage substantively in architecture and design discussions and reason about technical trade-offs, without needing to write production code yourself

Nice-to-haves

• Domain experience in AdTech, MarTech, or privacy/consent management (e.g. CMPs, tracking/consent infrastructure)
• Experience operating in a multi-product or multi-brand engineering organization

Benefits

Why join Usercentrics?

• Joining Usercentrics means becoming part of a fast-growing, diverse and international team of tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurially-minded who build our success story together
• Company culture is important to us - we strive to continuously develop a positive, vibrant and inspiring environment that enables everyone to thrive both personally and professionally
• Get involved! We have plenty of initiatives and love to see people from all department enthusiastically participating and shaping our future together in different cross-department projects
• Your work-life balance is important to us too - we offer flexible working hours, hybrid working and the possibility of workcations (in accordance with our company policy)
• We always remember to have fun along the way, both in our day-to-day work and at our regular team events on site in our offices in Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon and Prague or online with our offices in New York and Buenos Aires. Usercentrics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status