# Head of Engineering

**Company**: DEPT®
**Location**: Zürich
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Purpose

This role is part of our Experience & Engineering team in Germany. We combine technology and experience design to create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products, and campaigns at scale and speed. Our specialty is digital experiences and communication that change perceptions and shape new behaviours to make a difference in the market.

In this key leadership position, you are responsible for the strategic direction and growth of our Engineering teams. You will lead a team of approximately 7-9 professionals, including Team Leads and Senior Engineers. Your focus shifts from writing code to building systems: you will optimize processes, develop the next generation of leaders, and actively drive the cultural change toward AI-driven development.

## Responsibilities

- Leadership of Leaders: You lead, coach, and mentor Team Leads and Senior Engineers. You own their career paths and empower them to lead their own sub-teams to excellence.

- AI Change Management: You define the roadmap for integrating Artificial Intelligence into the daily engineering lifecycle (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Agentic Workflows). You act as a change agent, transforming our workflows for maximum efficiency and innovation.

- Operational Excellence: You take full ownership of your department's operational performance (resource planning, budget monitoring, utilization) and ensure a profitable and scalable engineering organization.

- Strategic Partnering: You 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 our key accounts.

- Cultural Stewardship: You 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 eye-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 both stakeholders and clients.

## Benefits

- Flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location);

- 25 days holiday with the opportunity to take unpaid leave;

- Flexible health budget and Wellness & personal day.

- Learning & development budget.

- Referral bonus program.

- Occasional breakfast & lunch at the office, Smoothie Tuesday.

- Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform.

- You can choose to work from the spacious and barrier-free location in Zurich; in Bern you can expect a small but nice and fully equipped office where you can hit the keys in peace.

- Social events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.

- A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.

- Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global , at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!

- The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.

- Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

## Skills

### Required
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub Copilot
- Agentic Workflows
- Frontend development
- German
- English

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