Are you passionate about creating great products that meet customer needs and delight drivers? We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager that can help us shape the future of driving. Working closely together with Product Management, UX, and other teams across TomTom, you will lead an empowered Product Team, building the in-car navigation experience used in millions of cars across the world.
What you’ll do:As Senior Engineering Manager, you are accountable for the outcomes achieved by your teams. You manage several engineering teams, directly or indirectly via other Engineering Managers. Your performance is significantly based on the business impact of your organization, you’ll work together with Product Managers to set product strategy, while owning the technical solutions. You set guidelines and policies for all developers in our department by aligning with peers, the industry and tech leads. You add value to our software engineering practices by challenging and improving the process and applying best practices from the industry. Your most important tool for delivering results is identifying growth opportunities, empowering team members to take ownership and coaching them to success and doing a little bit better every day. Beyond helping your team to be successful, you show leadership by identifying opportunities and taking ownership of initiatives outside of your team's scope. You define a team topology and staffing plan that sets the team for success. The growth of team members, team health, career planning and performance management are playing a supporting role here. You will be a member of the Engineering Leadership core team, as a steering group for the department. What'll need:We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a history of leading larger product teams (25+ engineers), managing multiple engineering managers and a solid understanding of modern incremental and iterative software product development and their implications. You have a proven understanding of the business, the technology applied and the product. This will help you to assess the impact of what the teams deliver and take ownership for shaping the direction of the team and its systems in line with business objectives and strategy. You are highly empathetic, an excellent communicator, a true role model for leadership inputs and principles, and enjoy helping others to be successful just as much as having individual impact. You have sufficient technical skills from your background in software development. You mainly use these skills to identify, evaluate, and grow talent, and ensure the team is staffed well and moving in the right direction. You are no stranger to Location Technology, digital maps andprocessing of large amounts of Floating Car Data. You have a basic understanding ofgraphs, algorithms and Data Science. Experience working in empowered Product Teams, in close collaboration with Product Management and UX are a big plus What's in it for you:A dynamic environment where you are exposed to the key players in the automotive world. The major brands in the world have decided to use TomTom navigation solutions and millions of cars world-wide drive with the solutions you help create.An opportunity to be coached and grow into stronger engineering management roles with a wider scope and bigger impact, developing your potential.Freedom to make your local decisions, giving you a mandate on critical aspects of the business.A competitive compensation package including a performance bonus.You will be exposed to a team with a long history in the automotive industry, you will learn how to operate best to deliver to the mission and strengthen your skills.Your ideas for improvement will be embraced and embedded in the roadmap in cooperation with our excellent UX and Product staff.
