Engineering Manager Product & Tech

At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production studios. We believe in the power of content not just as a way of telling stories and touching lives, but also expanding worlds.

We’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey. Right now, we’re searching for a Engineering Manager in our Stockholm office – are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?

The role
As an Engineering Manager, your primary responsibility will be to lead our teams and individuals in efforts to enhance our product's appeal, foster personal development, oversee technology, delivery, and strategic initiatives.

Our product development process is built around autonomous cross-functional teams. In collaboration with our product managers, you lead the team in finding productive and sustainable ways of working while delivering value to our customers and the business.

You will be a part of a Product Area and together with the other teams work towards its objectives and mission. Together with your colleagues in the engineering leadership team, you will also work with alignment and cross-team improvements to ensure that we continuously improve our organization and have an alignment in our organization also strengthen the relations with other parts of the organization.

Viaplay is a very dynamic company; there are always new challenges and new things to learn. We develop our whole product in-house in our office at Ringvägen 52 or in our Tech Hub in Barcelona.

Some of your work would be about

• Apply a servant and agile leadership mindset to grow motivated teams.
• Support software engineers and product designers as well as experts within user behavior tracking and experiments (A/B testing) reporting to you through coaching and mentoring and creating opportunities for them to grow.
• Work closely with our agile product teams with a customer-first mindset, to guide them in continuous improvements and team dynamics.
• Be responsible for staffing and recruitment for your team/s.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to set a direction for your teams.
• Work with other Engineering Managers across the product and our engineering organization to improve ways of working.

What we’re looking for
To be our new Engineering Manager, we believe that you are an experienced leader in the technology industry. You thrive in daily interactions with your teams and like to find new ways to do your job in an even better way. If you also, just like us, like to have fun at work, we might have a match!

We understand you may feel confident ticking certain boxes more than others and that’s why we always keep an open mind in our recruitment process. But, in order to thrive in this role, we do believe you’ll have at least some experience in the following:

• Experienced in coaching and mentoring people and teams.
• Knowledgeable about product development and a user-centric approach.
• Solid experience working as a leader in an agile environment.
• Interest in software development and able to facilitate architectural or technical conversations.
• You have knowledge and experience of recruitment.

It’s a bonus if you have:

• You are a practitioner of systems thinking and curious about getting a deeper perspective on how to influence the organization.
• Previously worked with people from diverse backgrounds and prerequisites - and found it inspiring.
• A can-do attitude, sense of humor and the ability to work humbly with others.
  

Our offering

• We’ve got the basics covered (and then some)! 30 days of paid vacation every year and extra compensation on top of a parental pay lift.
• Your wellbeing matters. We have an attractive pension and insurance scheme with full health care coverage should you need it.
• A safe space to grow and up-skill with the freedom to try new things in autonomous teams. Our learning culture puts you in the driver’s seat of your own development, while always making sure you feel supported with regular knowledge-sharing sessions, technical training, mentorship opportunities and peer-to-peer networks.
• An innovative environment with Hack Days once a year. This week-long initiative allows you to think outside the box and deliver creative, technical solutions that (more often than not) go on to be implemented, either in our product or our ways of working.
• Entertainment is what we love, and entertainment is what we do. So, unlimited access to Viaplay seems only fair for you to get to know the product – including live sports & pay per view events, new release movie rentals, linear channels and more.

Hit play today
If this feels like your kind of challenge, make sure you apply by attaching your CV here – you may also want to add your LinkedIn profile. Please don’t send us your application via email because we won’t be able to accept it. We do, however, welcome any questions you may have about this particular position.

Want to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our careers page or follow us on Instagram! We’re only ever a few clicks away.

Department
Product, Data & Tech

Locations
Stockholm, Sweden