Senior Engineering Manager, Staffbase
+ Unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan
Employee communications platform
Job no longer available
Employee communications platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower communicators worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for empathetic and motivated team players who are motivated by growth and ownership
- Proven Experience in an Engineering Management/Leadership role
- Servant Leadership: Embody servant leadership by being genuinely people-centric, creating safe spaces, and unblocking teams to ensure their success. Your leadership style encourages empathy, trust, and team-building
- Technical Acumen: Possess a solid understanding of software engineering, including DevOps practices, CI/CD, and architecture, enabling you to guide teams toward technological excellence and sustainability
- Strategic Thinker: Exhibit strong organizational and decision-making skills, with a knack for pragmatic problem-solving. You're adept at managing competing priorities and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability
- Strategic Insight and Risk Awareness: You excel in overseeing cross-team initiatives with a keen eye for detail and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks. Your strategic insight ensures effective collaboration and transparent communication, driving initiatives to success and aligning with organizational objectives
- Communicator and Collaborator: Demonstrate exceptional communication skills, capable of managing up, working with peers, and aligning teams behind shared goals. You foster collaborative problem-solving and ensure product and engineering alignment
- Growth-Oriented: Show a commitment to continuous personal and professional growth, with a focus on technological understanding and coaching. You advocate for a growth mindset, encouraging continuous learning and adaptation
- Language Proficiency: Fluency in English is required, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization
What the job involves
- We're on the lookout for a talented Senior Manager, Engineering to join our Staffbase team and help us build an awesome internal communications platform
- Team Environment and Development: Foster a collaborative environment by integrating feedback, supporting agile practices, and working closely with Agile Coaches. Encourage a culture of openness, continuous learning, and growth, emphasizing the importance of technological excellence and innovation
- Leadership Presence: Maintain a visible and approachable stance, being a reliable source of support and guidance for your teams. Embrace a leadership style that balances proactive problem-solving with humility and transparency, valuing the contributions of every team member
- Leadership Team Collaboration: As part of the team's leadership (Design Lead, Product Manager, Engineering Lead), you'll play a key role in driving delivery, effectiveness, and genuine teamwork
- Talent Management and Growth: Lead by example in the recruitment and development of a skilled, diverse team as well as building up talent from scratch by supporting our Engineering Entry Programs. Implement structured processes for personal and professional growth, ensuring clarity in roles and facilitating continuous skill enhancement and learning opportunities
- Operational Excellence: Take responsibility for budgeting, resource planning, and the coordination of efforts across departments to achieve seamless collaboration and operational efficiency. Act as a steward of the group's mission and vision, aligning team efforts with organizational goals
- Strategic Engagement: Play an active role in strategy formulation and goal setting in collaboration with product, design, and technology partners. Drive your teams towards achieving shared objectives, fostering an environment that empowers decentralized decision-making and innovation
- Performance and Improvement: Regularly assess team and engineering effectiveness using data-driven insights validated by a close relationship with the teams. Prioritize and implement initiatives aimed at continuous improvement, adhering to best practices and standards within the broader organizational context
- Initiative Oversight and Risk Mitigation: Lead transparency efforts in cross-team initiatives, ensuring clear communication of progress and challenges. Proactively identify and address risks, and manage non-functional requirements to enhance security, scalability, and performance. Your role is crucial in maintaining initiative momentum and ensuring outcomes meet our high standards for reliability and strategic alignment
Our take
Staffbase is the first AI-native employee experience platform and it's built to help companies keep their people connected - an employee app, intranet, email, SMS, digital signagfee, and Microsoft 365 integrations - all in one place. With more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including Adidas, Toyota, DHL, and Sephora, Staffbase is helping organisations build stronger, more aligned workplaces.
With teams spread across offices, countries, and time zones, companies need reliable ways to keep everyone informed and engaged. And Staffbase does just that, making communication simpler and more effective for every employee. Its tools, including an AI-powered Staffbase Companion assistant, give people the information they need quickly, so they can work more collaboratively with confidence.
A major leap forward for the company is Employee AI, Staffbase's new foundation for the next era of employee experience. Built on trusted data, governance, adn braod reach, it'sd esigned to make AI genuinely uselful for every employee. Features rolling out through 2025 and 2026 include a mobile-first AI assistant that helps employees complete tasks, hyper-personalised weekly podcasts, smarter content governance that keeps information up to date, and prompt-based tools that help teams create high-quality content faster.
With such strong momentum, industry recognition (like being named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for three years in a row), and a partnership with Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, Staffbase is very much ready for the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2022
$123.8m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$145m
SERIES D
Total funding: $324m
Company HQ
Altchemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Leadership
Martin Böhringer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded productivity app builder startup Hojoki, serving as CEO before co-founding Staffbase in 2014.
Lutz Gerlach
(Co-Founder & COO)Before Staffbase, co-founded and served as COO of Hojoki.
Frank Wolf
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked in Social Technologies and Collaboration for T-Systems Multimedia Solutions (T-Mobile), following seven years as a Manager for Accenture.
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