At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, and TV channels. We believe in the power of content not just as a way of telling stories and touching lives, but also expanding worlds.
We’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey. Right now, we’re searching for a Engineering Manager in our Barcelona office – are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?
The role
As an Engineering Manager, your primary responsibility will be to lead our teams and individuals in efforts to enhance our product's appeal, foster personal development, oversee technology, delivery, and strategic initiatives.
Our product development process is built around cross-functional teams. In collaboration with our product managers, you lead the team in finding productive and sustainable ways of working while delivering value to our customers and the business.
You will be a part of a Product Area and together with the other teams work towards its objectives and mission. Together with your colleagues in the engineering leadership team, you will also work with alignment and cross-team improvements to ensure that we continuously improve our organization and have an alignment in our organization also strengthen the relations with other parts of the organization.
Viaplay is a very dynamic company; there are always new challenges and new things to learn. We develop our product in-house in our offices in Stockholm and Barcelona.
Some of your work would be about:
- Apply a servant leadership mindset to grow motivated teams.
- Support software engineers and product designers through coaching and mentoring and creating opportunities for them to grow.
- Work closely with our agile product teams with a customer-first mindset, to guide them in continuous improvements and team dynamics.
- Be responsible for staffing and recruitment for your team/s.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to set a direction for your teams.
- Work with other Engineering Managers across the product and our engineering organization to improve ways of working.
What we are looking for
To be our new Engineering Manager, we believe that you are an experienced leader in the technology industry. You thrive in daily interactions with your teams and like to find new ways to do your job in an even better way. If you also, just like us, like to have fun at work, we might have a match!
The ideal candidate meets all or some of the qualifications:
- Experienced in coaching and mentoring people and teams.
- Knowledgeable about product development and a user-centric approach.
- Solid experience working as a leader in an agile environment.
- Interest in software development and able to facilitate architectural or technical conversations.
- You have knowledge and experience of recruitment.
- Experience of previous leadership roles in a tech organization.
- You are a practitioner of systems thinking and curious about getting a deeper perspective on how to influence the organization.
- Previously worked with people from diverse backgrounds and prerequisites - and found it inspiring.
What we offer you
- Our HQ is in Stockholm, with our Tech hub based in Barcelona. You will become part of an amazing company with great people, content, and culture.
- An attractive offer with beneficial insurance, health care plan, meal vouchers, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible working hours, a hybrid model, flexible remuneration, and more!
- A safe space to grow and up-skill. Our learning culture puts you in the driver’s seat of your own development.
- An innovative environment with Hack Days once a year. This week-long initiative allows you to think outside the box and deliver creative, technical solutions that (more often than not) go on to be implemented, either in our product or our ways of working.
- Entertainment is what we love, and entertainment is what we do. So, unlimited access to Viaplay seems only fair for you to get to know the product – including live sports & pay per view events, new release movie rentals, linear channels and more.
- An international and diverse environment with people from all over the world working here. We have 35+ different nationalities in the team coming from diverse backgrounds.
Hit play today
If this feels like your kind of challenge, make sure you apply by attaching your CV here – you may also want to add your LinkedIn profile. Please don’t send us your application via email because we won’t be able to accept it. We do, however, welcome any questions you may have about this particular position.
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