Engineering Manager

Summary

Join YouGov as an Engineering Manager and leverage your deep understanding of team technologies to represent their needs to stakeholders. Align team decisions with company goals, own technical solutions, and lead engineering efforts. Foster team growth through delegation, feedback, and regular 1:1s. Actively participate in the Engineering Management team, shaping the YouGov Engineering Organization. Empower team members, shape team structure, and act as a hiring manager. Implement technical solutions and processes for a healthy engineering organization. Collaborate with product managers for timely delivery and automate tasks to enhance efficiency.

Requirements

• You have a software engineering background
• You are great at organising and prioritising work
• You are able to accurate translate technical jargon and break down complex concepts into something understandable
• You are an excellent communicator
• You speak English fluently
• You have an entrepreneurship mentality
• You are a self-starter and self-motivated
• You have previously managed engineers and projects

Responsibilities

• Delivery of your teams' projects
• Alignment of your teams' decisions with company and teams' OKRs
• Ownership of technical solutions within your team
• Representing your teams' needs and interests to stakeholders and other company leaders
• Leadership of your teams' engineering efforts
• Growth of your teammates through delegation, feedback and regular 1:1's
• Active role in the Engineering Management team shaping the entire YouGov Engineering Organisation
• Empower your team members, and make sure that they have a feeling of ownership and progression
• Shape your team's structure, and be a hiring manager for your team
• Implement technical solutions and processes that foster a healthy and efficient engineering organisation
• Work closely with product manager to ensure timely delivery
• Actively looking for opportunities to automate tasks to increase team efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building customer-facing services

Benefits

• A full-time, 100% remote role
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible working hours (we are a global team of remote first developers operating in European, Indian and US/Canada time zones)
• A good work-life balance
• Top-notch equipment to work with
• Mental health programs
• LinkedIn Learning courses
• 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
• Growth and learning opportunities