Director of Engineering - Partnerships

Summary

Join Pleo as a Director of Engineering and lead multiple engineering teams, fostering a high-performing environment. Collaborate closely with the Product Director and report to the VP of Engineering. Responsibilities include overseeing delivery, ensuring team growth, optimizing processes, and building high-quality software. The ideal candidate is a passionate people manager who excels in cross-functional collaboration, strategic planning, and communication. You will design the organization, objectives, and maintain high standards in people, delivery, and technology. You will also work with outsourcing partners and represent Pleo to external partners.

Responsibilities

• Have a passion for people management. You work to see your team and individuals growing and shipping great software
• You like to work with cross-functional teams and other stakeholders to align engineering functions with product & business direction and goals. You think like a technologist in the core and optimize for both customers and the business
• You know how to build and manage a delivery plan across multiple teams, bringing everyone together
• Enjoy design and optimization of teams and processes to maximize their efficiency. You are comfortable stepping into technical discussions or taking important stakeholder meetings to remove roadblocks allowing the team to move forward
• You are a strong communicator, with both technical and commercial stakeholders
• You’re a technologist at heart. We work in cross-functional teams in product and engineering: each team is made up of co-founders from product and engineering - and joined by designers, coders, and maybe even some people from commercial
• Work and represent engineering efforts in the product-led space and represent the space in senior engineering management team
• Drive a customer-centric & solution-oriented mindset
• Continuously improve the environment and processes for how we build our product
• Align technology direction within your area, with other areas as well as with the overall technology direction of the company
• Represent engineering in key initiatives and projects within the department or across the company and ensure they get delivered
• Design the organization, and objectives and hold a high standard in people, delivery, and technology
• Work with “outsourcing” and different service models with outsourcing partners
• Represent Pleo in front of partners, both companies and banks

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• Flexibility/remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶