Engineering Manager

Summary

Join YouGov as an Engineering Manager and lead a team focused on delivering cutting-edge consumer behavior insights. You will provide technical leadership, ensuring product quality and promoting best practices. Responsibilities include team recruitment, management, and fostering a positive work environment. You will also manage project scopes, timelines, and resources. The ideal candidate possesses a software engineering background in a senior or leadership role, strong project management skills, and experience managing and growing engineering teams. Strong communication and the ability to align technical projects with business objectives are essential.

Requirements

• Software engineering background in a senior or leadership role
• Strong project management skills, ensuring on-time delivery of software projects
• Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow software engineering teams, including performance reviews and personal development
• Strong conflict management and resolution skills, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders and articulate complex technical concepts
• Experience working in industries where data is central to the business, such as tech, finance, healthcare, or e-commerce
• Ability to align technical projects with business objectives and ensure the team is focused on delivering value to the organization
• Demonstrated ability to manage third-party relationships effectively, ensuring alignment on project objectives, timelines, and deliverables

Responsibilities

• Lead by example to ensure the technical excellence of the engineering team
• Steer the team by helping select the right tools and technologies, ensure product quality and promote best practices, provide mentorship and guidance, maintain alignment of a technology roadmap with department and company goals
• Build and maintain a high performing team through recruiting, structuring, and managing skills. Ensure a balanced, high-performance, positive and productive environment, set goals, provide mentorship, empower your teammates, and foster the growth of engineers
• Define project scopes, timelines, and allocate resources to meet goals and needs. Identify and mitigate risks while ensuring timely and effective delivery. Communicate statuses, challenges, successes and collaborate with stakeholders and leaders
• Manage and maintain knowledge bases and technical documentation. Ensure components and decisions are captured efficiently and correct processes are followed
• Collaborate closely with other teams, ensure mutual understanding and alignment of requirements and goals

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience with data engineering, big data, or software engineering with python

Benefits

• Best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing
• Sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace