Description
Job Purpose
This role is part of the Experience & Engineering team in Germany. The team combines technology and experience design to create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products, and campaigns at scale and speed.
As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the Engineering teams. You will lead a team of approximately 7-9 professionals, including Team Leads and Senior Engineers. Your focus will be on optimizing processes, developing the next generation of leaders, and driving cultural change toward AI-driven development.
Responsibilities
- Leadership of Leaders: You will lead, coach, and mentor Team Leads and Senior Engineers, owning their career paths and empowering them to lead their own sub-teams to excellence.
- AI Change Management: You will define the roadmap for integrating Artificial Intelligence into the daily engineering lifecycle and act as a change agent to transform workflows for maximum efficiency and innovation.
- Operational Excellence: You will take full ownership of your department's operational performance, ensuring resource planning, budget monitoring, utilization, and a profitable and scalable engineering organization.
- Strategic Partnering: You will work closely with Directors and VPs to sharpen DEPT®'s technological vision in the DACH region and act as a high-level technical sparring partner for key accounts.
- Cultural Stewardship: You will foster an inclusive, motivating, high-performance culture and establish modern department rituals that promote knowledge sharing and innovation.
Requirements
- Proven People Manager: You have a track record of leading teams in a "manager-of-managers" structure or significant experience leading larger engineering departments.
- Change Agent: You are passionate about the potential of AI in the software lifecycle and have a clear vision of how modern engineering organizations must evolve.
- Frontend Background: You possess a deep technical history in frontend development, allowing you to validate architectural decisions and act as a mentor on an equal level.
- Business Acumen: You understand the economic drivers of an agency or consultancy and can translate KPIs into actionable success.
- Communication: You are a confident communicator in both German and English, able to present complex technical topics to stakeholders and clients.
Benefits
- Flexible, hybrid working policy (1-2 days at the office, depending on location);
- Company pension scheme;
- Lease bike options / JobRad and 25% subsidy for the Deutschlandticket;
- Occasional breakfast/lunch at the office, Smoothie Tuesdays;
- Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform;
- €50 personal monthly allowance via dedicated benefits apps;
- Future Bens - Exclusive access to sustainable, healthy products at attractive deals;
- Social events and opportunities to connect with colleagues;
- A reputation for doing good as a Certified B Corp®;
- Awesome clients to work with;
- Opportunities for skill development with training, development, and certifications;
- Global annual DEPT® Cares Month to support local charities.