Director, Engineering – Retail Media & Marketplace
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Engineering Director leading 40 engineers across Redcare Pharmacy’s retail media and marketplace platforms. Shaping technical strategy, commercial outcomes, and external partnerships.
Responsibilities:
- Set engineering direction across Retail Media and Marketplace domains
- Decide where platforms should converge or remain separate
- Lead and grow an engineering organisation of approximately 40 engineers across 5–7 teams
- Develop Engineering Managers and their teams
- Shape the organisation as the domains evolve
- Create an environment with clear ownership and autonomy
- Own delivery, reliability, architecture, and technical debt
- Raise engineering maturity and enable teams to move quickly without compromising quality
- Co-own roadmaps with Product and Commercial teams
- Connect engineering priorities to take rate, advertiser ROAS, seller economics, and contribution margin
- Lead engineering relationships with external platforms, integrators, and agencies
- Make build/buy/partner decisions
- Oversee integrations, SLAs, and vendor performance
- Report to the Executive Director of Engineering / VP of Engineering
- Lead through two Engineering Managers and partner with Product and Commercial leadership
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers or leads
- Experience leading organisations through significant change, such as merging domains, introducing new scope, or replacing a platform
- Experience developing commercial B2B platforms such as a marketplace, retail media, ad tech, payments, or seller/partner platform
- Experience with high-traffic and transactional systems
- Strong technical judgement combined with commercial thinking
- Ability to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes
- Confidence partnering with senior Product and Commercial stakeholders
- Demonstrated measurable improvements in engineering excellence
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, external partners, and competing priorities
- Strong English communication skills
Benefits:
- Urban Sports Club membership (M) package
- Individual work-from-home arrangement, including up to 20 days per year anywhere in the EU
- In- and external training opportunities
- 30 days paid vacation per annum
- Additional paid day off on Rosenmontag
- Option to take up to 10 days of unpaid vacation after one year of employment
- Company pension scheme
- Dedicated external consultant for pension guidance and advice
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