Engineering Manager, Zappi
£90-105k
Consumer insights enterprise platform
Job no longer available
Consumer insights enterprise platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£90-105k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To drive better ways of working resulting in stronger brands and smarter growth by inspiring, optimizing and validating products and ads.
Role
Who you are
- Coaching-first leader – You empower and challenge engineers and managers, fostering a culture of ownership, growth, and psychological safety
- Strategic & proactive – You align engineering efforts with business goals, step into gaps, and drive solutions
- Product minded - You are customer and value focused. You are comfortable proactively prioritising and changing course when given new information
- Technically engaged – You facilitate technical discussions and decision-making, ensuring teams make informed trade-offs while balancing ownership of reliability, security, and scalability
- Decision-maker in ambiguity – You confidently make and guide tough decisions, helping teams navigate complexity and move forward
- Delivery-focused – You ensure execution is smooth, efficient, and high-quality, enabling your team to deliver impact
- Strong communicator & influencer – You engage at all levels, building alignment and trust across teams
- Resilient & adaptable – You thrive in change, staying focused and effective in evolving environments
- Hybrid Role – We trust you to work in the way that suits you best, but we also see huge value in face-to-face collaboration. While there are no mandated office days, we expect you to spend meaningful time in the office, to build relationships, immerse yourself in the team, and set yourself up for success
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of product engineers building our consumer insights platform
- You’ll partner closely with Product, design, and QA, guiding the team through ambiguity, helping them make great decisions, and delivering impactful solutions
- Your role will be a blend of people leadership, technical guidance, and delivery execution
- You’ll help shape engineering direction, coach and develop team members, and foster a high-trust, high-performance culture
- Lead & Develop: Manage a team of product engineers, ensuring they are happy, motivated, and growing in their careers
- Drive Delivery: Align engineering efforts with business goals, ensuring smooth execution across design, planning, and development
- Technical Leadership: Bring your prior technical experience to challenging new use-cases, acting as a mentor to the engineers on your team
- Own Technical & Product Decisions: Work with your team to make informed technical trade-offs, balancing short-term impact with long-term scalability
- Accountable for performance, quality, and security – You take ownership of your team’s systems, ensuring they meet high standards for reliability, maintainability, and security, while driving continuous improvement
- Coach & Grow Talent: Provide mentorship, feedback, and career development opportunities, ensuring engineers have clear growth paths
- Navigate Complexity: Help the team manage ambiguity, move forward, and deliver high-impact solutions
- Cultivate a High-Trust Culture: Create an environment where team members feel safe to take risks, experiment, and innovate
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zappi was founded in 2012 as a market research company that helps brands and advertisers find new ways to engage with their customer base. Working in data science, strategy consultation, and product innovation, Zappi creates solutions for brands as varied as Pepsi, Haleon, and Vodafone to maximise their audience engagement.
In 2022, Zappi moved into a solely software-as-a-service business model and created Zappi Amplify TV, an insight tool for TV-advertising effectiveness measurement. This plus investment in new talent exemplifies how, like the demographics-focused industry they serve, Zappi is always prepared for change.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2022
$170m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $194.1m
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
Leadership
Steve Phillips
(Founder, Chair & Chief Innovation Officer)Previously partner at Tuned In Research and Chairman at Tonic Insight.
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