Senior Software Engineering Manager, Personio
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2-3 days a week in office
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
Open for applications
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Virtual shares
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations unlock the power of people.
Role
Who you are
- Proven leadership experience: 3+ years of hands-on people management, successfully leading and scaling engineering teams
- Strong engineering background: 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in scalable distributed systems
- Technical acumen: Comfortable engaging in deep technical discussions with engineers and improving system performance metrics
- Product-first mindset: Experience working in a product triad setup, with the ability to thrive in ambiguity and complexity
- Stakeholder management: Excellent ability to build relationships, communicate effectively, and drive alignment across multiple teams
- Ownership & decision-making: Skilled at creating strategic proposals and leading collaborative decision-making
- Experience managing remote teams: The team includes engineers across London, Dublin, Germany, and New York, so remote leadership skills are a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 6-8 engineers across full stack, product, and platform engineering, helping shape our future by driving scalable automation solutions
- You will play a pivotal role in fostering engineering excellence, navigating product ambiguity, and collaborating across multiple teams and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions
- Lead and mentor a diverse engineering team, ensuring their growth, engagement, and success
- Create an inclusive, high-performance culture that encourages ownership and autonomy
- Collaborate with product and design partners to define, prioritize, and execute high-impact initiatives
- Influence the strategic direction of workflow automation, a key driver of Personio’s enterprise growth
- Leverage your technical background to facilitate architectural discussions, improve operational metrics, and drive scalable engineering solutions
- Ensure that our systems maintain high performance and reliability, including improvements to page load times and system performance
- Partner with L6 engineering managers, L7 directors, and product teams to create well-aligned, strategic engineering roadmaps
- Work across multiple business units, navigating cross-functional dependencies and ensuring alignment with broader company goals
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Personio was set up to automate and simplify HR tasks with a single software. This means reducing admin and accelerating efficiency with data and processes seamlessly integrating with each other.
What sets Personio apart from its competitors is the fact that its solution covers all the core HR processes that are key to every company’s success and can be performed in one place. This gives HR professionals the time and energy to focus on more strategic topics like talent development and employer branding. Personio has over 15,000 customers, among which are 1.5 million employees using its software.
With substantial funding from multiple investors, Personio is focused on growing the tools it offers as well as expanding into what they describe as “people workflow automation". With 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses still stuck in the spreadsheet era, Personio will deliver even more value to businesses in years to come.
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Meet the team
4 people
Aleena, Software Engineer
Our mission
Empower people with AIInsights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$200m
Series E
Oct 2021
$270m
Series E
Total funding: $724.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
- We love to celebrate our success and spend time together at Personio with regular company and team events like local summer sessions and local year-end celebrations.
- Choose between multiple sustainable transportation options, like a subsidised bike lease or monthly transit ticket
- Invest in your retirement via the Personio Pension Scheme, including a Personio contribution
- 1 Impact Day you can use to have an impact on the environment and society – one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative
- We follow an office-led, remote friendly working model, including opportunities to work from home and international locations. Many of our teams have designated days for gathering in the office to enhance collaboration and foster a sense of community.
- Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
Company values
- Exceed Customer Expectations - We anticipate, prioritize, and solve for the needs of our customers
- Deliver Exceptional Results - We dream big and move with urgency to make great things happen
- Elevate One Another - We work together as trusted partners to amplify our collective impact
- Care to Challenge - We care personally and challenge directly to unlock our full potential
- Ignite Positive Momentum - We embrace the challenge with a positive mindset and celebrate our wins together
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Hanno Renner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also co-founded Feedbackme in 2015 and is a member of the "Advisory Board of the Young Digital Economy".
Jonas Rieke
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously worked in Business Development at komoot and Hendrick & Schwartz. They also worked in Investment Management at Project A Ventures.
Maria Angelidou-Smith
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Named to Business Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business in 2020.
Lenke Taylor
(Chief People Officer)Leading people-centered vision and teams to build global companies.
Philip Lacor
(Chief Revenue Officer)Previously the CRO at Airbase and Envoy. They also spent 4 years at Dropbox in various VP roles. Prior to that, they spent nearly 6 years at Vodafone as a Director and MD of Enterprise Business Units.
Birgit Haderer
(Chief Financial Officer)20+ years of experience in developing and executing strategies in various industries in both Germany and the USA, with a strong technology focus.
Naman Khan
(Chief Marketing Officer)Data driven, user focused and able to grow product categories across both product lead & sales lead GTM models.
People progressing
Alexander joined Personio in 2020 as a Working Student in Sales Operations, since then, they have worked their way up and now serve as an Account Executive.
Victoria joined Personio in 2017 as an Account Executive and has since held a number of roles. Since 2024, they have served as the Head of Payroll Sales.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Personio
- Our Count Me In DEI survey is designed to measure our progress towards our DEI goals and identify gaps and improvement areas to inform our planning of future initiatives.
- Our Diversity Committee ensures all communities have an equal voice in everything we do and includes representation from our six Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We build inclusion through monthly educational sessions, empowerment programs, and celebrations that promote awareness and allyship.
- Supporting and uplifting women in tech is one of the most impactful ways to drive positive change. Building on our 2023 initiatives, we have continued these efforts and introduced additional programs, maintaining our commitment to long-term progress as we move through 2024 and beyond.
- To find out more about Personio’s commitment to diversity and inclusion to ensure we are a company where everyone can embrace their uniqueness, visit our page https://www.personio.com/about-personio/diversity/
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