My client is a Startup in the Marketing Technology AI space, with a platform that will transform how brands connect to consumers in the AI space. This will enable these brands to thrive in the new paradigm. Their platform helps brands engage consumers on this new AI channel, with powerful enterprise tools to manage how their brand is represented in AI!
They are looking for a Director Engineering to join as the senior-most engineering leader alongside our CTO. This is not just a leadership role—it’s a unique opportunity to help shape the foundation of a fast-moving, product-driven startup during a critical phase of growth.
You’ll lead the charge on execution, quality, team culture, and organizational design. You'll help transform early-stage velocity into mature, high-performing systems—without losing the edge and pace that define great startups.
This role demands a builder’s mindset, a strategic view, and a deep sense of ownership. You’ll have a massive opportunity to shape how we hire, how we work, and how we scale—not just the technology, but the team and company itself. If you’re excited by high-impact challenges, fast cycles, and the chance to leave a lasting mark, we’d love to talk.
The role is based in Berlin, and we are flexible about hybrid work.
What you’ll be doing:
- Scale the team: Lead hiring, onboarding, and org design as we grow from a small, tight-knit team to a high-performing engineering organization.
- Drive execution excellence: Ensure we deliver with high velocity, quality, and reliability. Implement and evolve processes, tools, and metrics to support scalable and repeatable delivery.
- Lead and mentor: Support and grow engineering managers and individual contributors through coaching, feedback, and structured career development.
- Own engineering culture: Champion a culture of technical excellence, autonomy, ownership, and collaboration.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with the CTO, product, design, and business leads to define and deliver on the product roadmap and business goals.
- Make technical contributions: While this is not a hands-on coding role, you should be capable of engaging deeply on architecture, technical decisions, and trade-offs.
- Ensure platform reliability: Partner with DevOps and product teams to ensure our systems are scalable, secure, and resilient as we grow.
- Help set strategic direction: Bring an engineering voice to the table in company-wide strategic planning and decision making.
- Continuously improve: Identify and address bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or misalignments—always looking for ways to raise the bar.
Qualifications:
- Have experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, ideally from early to growth stage.
- Bring strong organizational leadership skills—you’ve built teams, led managers, shaped culture, and influenced cross-functional strategy.
- Have a track record of delivering complex, high-quality software in a product-focused environment.
- Are fluent in modern development practices—CI/CD, cloud platforms (ideally AWS), infrastructure automation, quality assurance, and system reliability.
- Have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills—you can influence at all levels and make decisions that align tech and business needs.
- Lead with humility, clarity, and high standards. You’re as comfortable rolling up your sleeves as you are zooming out to set vision and strategy.
- Have previous experience in a startup environment and thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous situations. You know how to operate without a lot of structure and enjoy building it.
- Want to be part of building something meaningful from the ground up.
