Engineering Manager | MarTech

at  DeepL

MEET DEEPL

DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals worldwide to make sense of the world and express their ideas.
Our goal is to become the global leader in Language AI, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and make a real-life impact. To achieve this, we need talented individuals like you to join our exciting journey. If you’re ready to work with a dynamic team and build your career in the fast-moving AI space, DeepL is your next destination.

MEET THE TEAM

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our cross-functional team responsible for marketing technology integrations, marketing automation, and marketing analytics.
As the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end ownership of our marketing technology stack, from system integration to automation and analytics. Your team will consist of engineers, data scientists, and data analysts who collaborate closely with our marketing teams to drive performance and lifecycle marketing, pre-sales automation, and marketing analytics.
In addition to leading the cross-functional team, the Engineering Manager will collaborate closely with our marketing teams to ensure alignment with our overall business objectives. You will work together with a product peer to understand the marketing leaders needs and provide technical guidance and support, as well as innovative AI-based marketing technologies solutions to drive growth.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

The core purpose of the Engineering Manager role is to develop a product engineering team to an autonomous, high performing stage and take responsibility for ensuring high quality deliverables:

• Delivery & Excellence: Collaborating with key stakeholders, represent the team’s engineering perspective on the feasibility, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and time-to-market aspects of new or existing services and products. Ensure timely delivery of new features, maintain existing ones, and establish high engineering excellence metrics. Actively contribute to resolving technical issues and challenges by participating in code reviews, system design discussions, and occasionally engaging in hands-on coding to support team members.People Leadership: Inspire, develop, recruit, and motivate a software engineering team. Conduct regular 1:1s with team members, set individual development or improvement plans, and foster a healthy, non-retaliatory feedback culture within the team.Team Management: As a collaborative partner with a member of the Product Management team, jointly oversee the team’s strategy, quarterly goals, and business-technical metrics. Ensure the team’s development process methodology is optimal, actively participate in building and maintaining the technical roadmap, and take ownership of technical incident management. Dedicate time and resources to quality efforts, maintain a current knowledge base and documentation for the team’s services and artifacts, and coordinate resource planning in collaboration with the Senior Engineering Manager and Craft Leads as needed.Manage growth: You derive satisfaction from navigating change and collaboratively discovering innovative solutions with your team and various stakeholders within a dynamic and evolving environment.Strategic Leadership: Responsibility includes guiding the strategic direction of the team’s engagements and collaborating with stakeholders. Not directly involved in software delivery, the role necessitates a profound understanding of technical architecture, potential challenges, and aligning the team’s work with broader organizational goals.

To be successful in this role, you will need to be a results-driven leader with a strong background in marketing technology. You should have a proven track record of leading successful cross-functional teams and be able to take full ownership of our mission to reach new customers through automation and insights. Your ability to build strong relationships with marketing stakeholders and effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical team members will be critical to your success in this role.

• High level of hands-on technical experience in software development and architecture, with several years of experience working as a senior software developer
• Experience in integrating or implementing technologies for marketing or go-to-market motions
• Experience in integrating multiple systems for data synchronisation and processing them for data modelling and analytics
• Strong knowledge of C#, or proficiency in other statically typed programming languages and preferably experience in Python and TypeScript
• You are a pragmatic problem solver who enjoys both the technical and non-technical challenges associated with the responsibilities of an Engineering Manager
• Excellent communication skills in English with a strong sense of empathy and a solution-oriented mindset
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to iterate quickly while being able to prioritise long-term project