Engineering Manager

Om jobbet

About Acast
Since 2014, Acast has been building the world's most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen-across any podcast app or listening platform.

About the roleAs an Engineering Manager at Acast you will be the people manager and technical leader for all engineers in your team. You will work closely with our tech leadership team to continuously deliver value and make sure that the members in your team are growing. build, support, and grow a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and feedback. drive execution by organizing team work, setting goals, and holding the team accountable. have a critical role in guiding the team's product decision making alongside the team's Product Manager. At Acast, Engineering and Product Managers are each other's closest collaborators. In addition to your own team, you will also be contributing to and influencing the engineering organization's direction and culture alongside other engineering managers and directors.

What you'll do

The Delivery area is the core of Acast where the content, the user and the monetization meet to deliver the best possible experience and value for everyone. Collaborating with an experienced PM, you will guide one of the area's key teams to break new ground in automating campaign planning and delivering smarter targeting through data-driven recommendations. The team's work will create value for advertisers, creators, and the broader podcast ecosystem.

Who you areWe are looking for someone who truly enjoys developing and growing people. Leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills are among your strengths. We also believe that you advocate agile software development and engineering best practices. It's important that you are curious and can adapt quickly and enjoy a dynamic and ever-changing environment. The team's systems are mainly written in TypeScript and Infrastructure runs in AWS so you are expected to be familiar with these technologies. In this role, you will be expected to stay connected to the team's daily work and be a technical leader with the respect of your team. For this important team we are seeking someone with solid experience and a strong track record of building and leading high-performing teams, and managing stakeholder relationships.

Where you will be

Most of our teams are hybrids with some members co-located in offices and some working remotely. With a remote first way of working we want you to feel productive regardless of work location! Where? For this role, we are looking within Sweden. Working hours? We want to avoid teams distributed over time zones, so this team will operate within the CET time zone for collaboration. This setup allows us for more flexibility and work-life balance.

Culture

Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We're global and have remote teams, so it's even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.

We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.

We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!

Department ProdDev: ProdDev Global Engineering Locations Stockholm / Sweden - Remote