The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

This position is based in London, Dublin or Munich.

Personio is the all-in-one HR software for small and medium-sized companies. We're growing rapidly and are on the amazing journey of becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe! Our mission is to make HR processes as transparent and efficient as possible so HR can focus on what matters most: people and strategy.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer Manager to help lead our Workforce Planning product. In this role, you’ll get the opportunity to establish a new team, and be a part of designing the product and platform to handle this accelerated growth phase. You’ll get a chance to shape customer-facing experiences, work closely with cross-functional partners, as well as impact engineering, operational, and management excellence within the entire department.

Like all our teams we are a cross-functional group of engineers, designers, and product managers from many different nationalities and backgrounds, spread across different locations and we continue to grow in 2024. 

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• High-performing teams: Build/grow a new high-performing team and establish a culture of engineering excellence and customer first.

• Architecture: Help design the next phase of architecture for the team.  Provide technical guidance and enable your team to deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and performant products.

• Maximizing impact: Collaborate closely with your partners in product and design to deliver the most delightful customer experiences. 

• Engineering culture: Build and influence a culture of ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity, not just within your team but the whole department.

• Technical excellence: Leverage your technical skills to build engineering excellence within your team that promotes and implements engineering best practices.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Over 3 years of hands-on people management experience. You’ve managed and grown high-performing teams by focusing on the engineers.

• Over 2 years of experience leading customer-facing product teams. 

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable distributed systems.

• You have a proven track record building teams that focus on impact, technical excellence and transparency.

• You have the ability to lead and make decisions to push forward. 

• You are data-driven in your decision-making.

• You lead from the front and are ready to roll up your sleeves to help your team in any way. 

• You have a passion for building reliable systems and have experience with microservices architecture. 

• You have excellent communication skills. Within the team and across the organization you can communicate transparently and effectively.

• You are based in or willing to relocate to Europe (London, Dublin, Munich).

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days –  one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! Most teams offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework
• Invest in your development with an annual personal development budget to use on professional memberships, external certifications, conferences, and more
• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations
• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes