Here’s a summary of the role:
As the Engineering Manager, you will lead a team dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consumer behavior insights and providing actionable views of audience engagement across devices and channels. Your team will drive the technology that powers our consumer insights platform, analyzing data from search, social media, streaming, and shopping interactions, and connecting these behavioral insights with opinion data from our industry-leading panel. By mapping the complete customer journey—from discovery to purchase—you will help empower brands with data-driven, opt-in insights that enable a true understanding of consumer needs.
In this role, you will provide technical leadership to the engineering team, ensuring product quality, and promoting best practices. You will also recruit, structure, and manage the team while fostering a positive and productive environment. Additionally, you will manage project scopes, timelines, and resources to ensure timely delivery and communicate effectively with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a software engineering background in a senior or leadership role, strong project management skills, and experience managing and growing engineering teams. Strong communication skills and the ability to align technical projects with business objectives are also essential.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Lead by example to ensure the technical excellence of the engineering team.
- Steer the team by helping select the right tools and technologies, ensure product quality and promote best practices, provide mentorship and guidance, maintain alignment of a technology roadmap with department and company goals.
- Build and maintain a high performing team through recruiting, structuring, and managing skills. Ensure a balanced, high-performance, positive and productive environment, set goals, provide mentorship, empower your teammates, and foster the growth of engineers.
- Define project scopes, timelines, and allocate resources to meet goals and needs. Identify and mitigate risks while ensuring timely and effective delivery. Communicate statuses, challenges, successes and collaborate with stakeholders and leaders.
- Manage and maintain knowledge bases and technical documentation. Ensure components and decisions are captured efficiently and correct processes are followed.
- Collaborate closely with other teams, ensure mutual understanding and alignment of requirements and goals.
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Software engineering background in a senior or leadership role (prior experience with data engineering, big data, or software engineering with python would be a plus).
- Strong project management skills, ensuring on-time delivery of software projects.
- Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow software engineering teams, including performance reviews and personal development.
- Strong conflict management and resolution skills, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders and articulate complex technical concepts.
- Experience working in industries where data is central to the business, such as tech, finance, healthcare, or e-commerce.
- Ability to align technical projects with business objectives and ensure the team is focused on delivering value to the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to manage third-party relationships effectively, ensuring alignment on project objectives, timelines, and deliverables.
Company Description and Culture
YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.
We speak daily to our panel of over 27 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.
Why join YouGov?
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov
We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
Equal Opportunity Employer
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.
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