Engineering Manager - ZMS Marketing Platform (all genders)

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As Engineering Manager for the ZMS Marketing Platform, you will lead the design, implementation and operation of our customer facing advertising solution( Marketing platform ) . We enable our partners to do effective digital marketing inside the Zalando premises. We also enable other ZMS teams to create their user experiences within our marketing platform with autonomy and speed. 

We are currently in an exciting moment as we are re-shaping the whole platform. This means we are reimagining how the architecture, ways of working and team responsibilities will evolve. We are going from a platform that was built by a single team to a platform where multiple teams can contribute while we optimize it to reduce time to deliver new features. 

This is an opportunity to help shape and define the future of our customer facing advertising platform and help our partners to connect their ads to the right shoppers at the right time. If you are interested in working with complex high availability systems with critical business impact, in a great team of professionals and experts of the field in a company that keeps growing, this role is for you.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit. 

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process. 

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy

Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Grow and lead the engineering teams at the Marketing Platform domain that can create and operate complex and distributed systems with narrow error budgets.

• Spot opportunities for collaboration within Zalando to create synergy across different services and offerings.

• Help to shape our Advertising platform, contributing to our vision, ways of working, processes, etc.

• Simplify ways of working, align with other teams priorities and deliveries making us more productive while keeping engineers' engagement high.

• Shape the cross-functional collaboration with our product, content, ad delivery,  reporting and other disciplines required for the business.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• You have a strong manager track record in recruiting, growing, and leading engineering teams, with at least 3 years of previous team management

• You can confidently drive cross-team & cross-functional projects and oversee major development stage gates from discovery to delivery

• You have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong tech expertise building customer facing applications.

• You have experience building platforms where internal stakeholders can build their user experiences. 

• You are experienced in high-level architecture & designs with Microservices, APIs, Data modelling and common patterns of distributed systems communication

• If you have domain knowledge in the advertising, digital marketing, media or e-commerce industry, it's a strong plus

• You are experienced in modern application infrastructure/middleware/libraries like AWS, K8s is a strong plus.

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OUR OFFER

• Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners

• Two paid volunteering days a year

• In a hybrid working model with 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

• 27 days of vacation a year to start

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services, including counseling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching are available

• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us 

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.