Senior Engineering Manager - Media

Trainline; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Dental insurance

2-for-1 share purchase plans

EV scheme

Work from abroad policy

Festive time off

Family-friendly benefits

Job summary

Trainline is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Media, leading the Ads, Perks, and Sponsored Search initiatives within the New Business pillar. The role focuses on growing non-fee revenue while keeping user experience intact, by ensuring native, contextually relevant media placements that deliver value to customers and partners.

You will supervise multiple teams and Engineering Managers, drive delivery quality, and partner with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering multi‑team initiatives.
• Experience developing people and growing leaders.
• Ability to inspire trust, autonomy, and a high-performing culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams and their Engineering Managers, supporting career development.
• Own end-to-end delivery, planning, execution, and quality across projects.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and business stakeholders to align delivery with outcomes.
• Provide technical direction and architecture oversight while managing cross-team dependencies.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Coaching & performance management

End-to-end delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical direction & architecture

Monitoring & incident management

Engineering best practices

Stakeholder communication

Operational excellence

Job description

Introducing Senior Engineering Manager - Media at Trainline

We’re searching for a Senior Engineering Manager within the New Business pillar, leading our Media teams across Ads, Perks, and Sponsored Search. This role sits at the heart of our non-fee revenue strategy with a mission to optimise and grow revenue in ways that enhance - not compromise - the user experience. Our ambition is to ensure media placements feel native, contextually relevant, and thoughtfully targeted, delivering value to both customers and partners.

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Trainline, you will

• Lead multiple teams and their Engineering Managers, supporting them in career development through coaching and performance management
• Own end-to-end delivery for your teams, ensuring projects are planned, executed, and delivered in a timely and high-quality manner
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science and business stakeholders to align technical delivery to business outcomes. Use domain expertise to guide teams toward high-impact opportunities.
• Support technical direction and architecture without being deeply hands-on with code. Drive alignment in cross-team dependencies and ensure clarity on technical prioritisation, system interactions, and data flows between systems.
• Champion engineering best practices across teams, promoting quality and fostering a culture of technical innovation
• Drive operational excellence, ensuring that all teams under your leadership have robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes

We’d love to hear from you if you

• Have proven experience leading engineering teams and successfully delivering complex, multi-team initiatives
• Have a strong record of developing people, building high-performing engineering teams, and growing future leaders
• Can inspire trust and autonomy at all levels, building a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture
• Thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and highly cross-functional environment
• Possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and can influence at all levels of the organization
• Lead confidently through ambiguity, creating clarity and momentum in complex or uncertain situations
• Have a passion for driving technical and operational excellence

More information

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.