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Engineering Manager - User Growth

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
No remote work
Experience: > 3 years

Deezer
Deezer

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Job description

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented cross-disciplinary engineers (iOS, Android, Backend, Frontend) which main objective is to optimise incoming traffic to bring new valuable users to Deezer’s service.The position consists of 3 main missions: 

  • Mastering User Growth team’s functional and technical scope by working hands in hand with your product’s pairs and external stakeholders in charge of it

  • Ensuring your team’s work is qualitative, consistent across platforms, well balanced between stack’s and team’s projects, and delivered in a smooth & efficient way

  • Developing your team skills along with Technical Experts, to maximize their day-to-day impact over company’s kpis, while aiming at making them autonomous

By joining Deezer and the User Growth team, you will:

  • Be the main technical point of contact of Marketing teams by supporting them on coordinating projects aligned with company’s objectives 

  • Build with your team “product-agnostic” solutions, that can be used in several contexts, while ensuring they are properly documented

  • Work closely with User Growth’s product team to define delivery’s strategy and high level projects’ specifications, with a focus on creating value iteratively 

  • Define and monitor closely team solutions’ vitals, to ensure they works as expected by proactively identify their potential flaws

  • Develop your team’s member skills to help them progressing in their career and reaching their personal goals, by providing them the right environment to do so

  • Challenge architectures suggested by your team to make them flexible, scalable, reliable and in-line with Deezer’s technical standards 

  • Monitor team’s efficiency and refine internal processes & workflows with external teams you work with, while stepping-up to resolve conflicts or remove impediments, if needed 

  • Define priorities and build a common roadmap along with your product’s pairs and team’s stakeholders, without forgetting stack and “debt reduction” topics

Life @ Deezer Paris

  • Start-up environment and philosophy
  • Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
  • In-house Deezer Sessions with your favorite artists, gig tickets
  • Hackathons & meetups
  • Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
  • A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
  • Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
  • An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
  • Gym access at Deezer HQ with lunch-time yoga, pilates and boxing classes
  • Start-up environment and philosophy

If you feel like this is the right opportunity for you, press play!

We are an equal opportunity employer.


Preferred experience

What we are looking for:

  • You are open-minded, you love to listen to the ideas of your colleagues and to foster collaboration betweens teams and individuals

  • You want to share things with your colleagues and to participate in the team's life with your good mood

  • You are pro-active in identifying opportunities to improve team’s efficiency by adopting new workflows, processes, methodologies and even tools

  • You like to animate brainstorming sessions or workshop, as well as team’s meetings to drive or communicate important decisions

  • You are able to zoom-out and consider the big picture to anticipate other potential needs, without falling into over-thinking or over-engineering  

  • Understanding of Growth Marketing problematics and Acquisition Tools is a big plus

Essential:

  • 3+ years experience in managing a cross-disciplinary Engineering team

  • Highly skilled in designing cross-stack functional architectures

  • A mindset focused on quality, delivery and efficiency

  • Capacity to inspire a vision and drive change across team’s members

  • Strong background in organizing & overseeing the development, release and proactive maintenance of projects in a high volumetry context

Soft skills:

  • Good communication skills and the capacity to adapt to non-technical interlocutors

  • At ease in teamwork, familiar with agile methodology and pair-programming

  • Autonomous and rigorous behaviour, committed to achieve goals

  • Ability to learn, to be creative and innovative when facing challenges

  • Fluent in writing well-documented procedures and expressing opinions using English

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