Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Project
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will lead a team of over 150 engineers, develop leadership styles, and enhance the engineering organization's effectiveness through sustainable architectural decisions and innovative technologies.
Your role in the team
- As Vice President Engineering, you will lead idealo's Engineering organization of 150+ engineers and help shape its next phase of growth and evolution. Working closely with the CTPO and partnering with Product, Data and Platform leadership, you will strengthen engineering effectiveness, develop leaders and build a high-performing organization.
- Lead and develop a 150+ engineer organization through multiple leadership layers.
- Drive organizational effectiveness, accountability and a high-performance engineering culture.
- Improve engineering execution, delivery predictability and operational excellence.
- Evolve our engineering operating model and scale the organization for future growth.
- Coach and develop engineering leaders, enabling them to increase their impact and effectiveness.
- Partner closely with Product leadership to align customer value, business goals and engineering execution.
- Support technical leaders in making sustainable architectural and technology decisions.
- Leverage metrics, feedback loops, and emerging technologies, including AI, to continuously improve how Engineering operates and delivers value.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Track record of scaling and transforming engineering organizations in modern technology companies.
- Strong understanding of software engineering, architecture and modern cloud-native environments.
- Strong people leadership skills with a passion for developing engineering leaders.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on organizational leadership when required.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to align, inspire and influence across the organization.
Experience
- Proven experience leading larger engineering organizations through managers and senior engineering leaders.
- Experience building high-performing teams and raising organizational performance standards.
- Experience in consumer technology, e-commerce, marketplaces or other large-scale digital products.
- Experience leading organizations through significant transformation or change.
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What we offer
- We take your personal development goals seriously and, in addition to our idealo Learning Hub, eLearning offerings (e.g., Udemy), coaching & mediation, we also offer you the opportunity to benefit individually from additional learning and development budget.
- Our office in the heart of Berlin offers free organic breakfast, excellent free lunch (vegan and vegetarian), as well as free coffee, lemonades and after-work beer, in addition to the "standard foosball".
- It also has a fabulous rooftop terrace with a view of the whole of Berlin where you can network with colleagues from our group of companies.
- We offer free counseling and support in all areas of life (professional, private, family, health, etc.) in cooperation with the pme-Familienservice.
- No problem with a job bike or Deutschlandticket - and it's environmentally friendly, too!
- We offer many different fitness and sports options, such as an Urban Sports or Gympass membership, to suit your personal needs.
- In addition to team events, you can also expect big company events and other moments of organized connection with others in the company and your team throughout the year!
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idealo internet GmbH
Idealo is a Berlin-based internet company that has been around since 2000. Our goal has always been to help our users make the best online purchase decisions.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Vice President Engineering
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
