Engineer Director, Dailymotion
Dailymotion Mobile Apps
Video streaming service
Open for applications
Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the next generation of media platforms designed to inspire millions of people to grow and share a diverse and inclusive vision of the world.
Role
Who you are
- Strong track record building and scaling high-quality consumer apps
- Proven experience leading iOS and Android teams
- Expertise in streaming video, media frameworks, and performance optimization
- Sharp eye for UX and a strong passion in crafting great user experiences
What the job involves
- You’ll lead our full engineer team — iOS, Android, and backend (8 people) — in an autonomous team entirely dedicated to the Dailymotion mobile apps
- Together with the Product Director, your mission is to turn vision into a world-class product — with real freedom to shape how we build and grow
- To achieve it, you’ll also work closely with QA Engineers and Product Designer to ensure a smooth, high-quality experience
- Own the delivery of the product vision
- Make key technical calls, balancing innovation and tech debt
- Lead and support your team, encouraging ownership and collaboration
- Establish clear performance objectives and provide guidance to ensure team alignment with business and technical goals
- Continuously improve the way your team work—improving workflows, tools, and ways of building
- Provide technical direction that influences the entire company
Our take
In many ways, it's difficult to talk about Dailymotion without talking about YouTube, its most obvious competitor. And it is indeed worth noting that the company underwent a major change in recent years to build its own programmatic platform partially to compete more directly with its famous American counterpart.
However, the truth is the nature of modern content consumption means that Dailymotion need not obsess over YouTube’s user base. There’s enough of an audience - at least 4 billion people by some estimates - for both video-streaming giants to co-exist.
That means Dailymotion has been able to experiment with different strategies. For example, the platform indisputably has better relationships than YouTube with its corporate partners, often engaging in bespoke product development to facilitate deeper relationships.
Perhaps the biggest competitive threat for Dailymotion will be not from its rival video-streaming platform, but from entirely new forms of internet-based entertainment. Short-form video content from platforms like TikTok is already siphoning away the younger cohort of users from longer-format video providers, a trend Dailymotion will need to address in the future.
Steph
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Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2009
$25m
SERIES C
Aug 2007
$34m
SERIES B
Total funding: $68.5m
Company benefits
- 🏡Hybrid Work Framework (4 types of remote work: Full office /Flex office (1/2 days remote) / Flex remote (1/2 days at the office) / Full remote + ability to work 3 months abroad)
- 💰International Group Savings Plan offered through the Vivendi Group
- 🍼8 weeks paid Paternity leave or Co-parental leave
- 🕶️Excellent Employee Culture (Company Events / Trainings / Parties / All hands …)
- 🚀Career development support (training / career check-in with HR / internal mobility / compensation cycle / 360 quarter feedback review …)
- 🏥Company-paid Health Insurance and Personal Services Vouchers (CESU)
- 🚆Commuter benefit coverage - Public Transport and Bike refund
- ⛱️Paid Time off – RTT and Saving time plan (CET)
- ✅Meal Vouchers
- 🎡Workers representatives committee(sport membership/cinemas vouchers/gift vouchers/discount)
Company HQ
Plaine-Monceau, Paris, France
Leadership
Maxime Saada
(CEO, not founder)Became the CEO of Dailymotion in 2015. They have also worked at CANAL+ since 2004, rising through the ranks, they are now the CEO. Prior to this, they worked as an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company.
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