Job description
Engineering Manager (L6), Recruiting (d/f/m)
Company Overview
Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our team of 1,500 Personios is building user-friendly products that delight our 15,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees.
Job Summary
We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager (L6) to lead a large, senior team of software engineers within our Apps product area. At its core the team owns Recruiting — the product our customers use to run their entire hiring process, from advertising a role to making an offer. The team also owns other apps including Whistleblowing and Workforce Planning. Right now it's making hiring smarter with AI, building AI screening and smart candidate pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a senior team of software engineers, supporting performance management, promotions, and career growth
- Own delivery, where reliability for existing customers matters as much as shipping what's next
- Set the technical direction with your senior engineers, and raise the bar on how the team turns customer problems into delivered value
- Balance paying down technical debt and modernising legacy systems against building new, AI-led capabilities
- Partner closely with your Product Manager to shape the roadmap, grounding technical investment in customer and business outcomes
- Stay close enough to the code and the systems to challenge your team on technical topics and represent the domain credibly in cross-functional discussions
Requirements / Qualifications
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading product teams, with a track record of growing and managing senior engineers
- Strong engineering background — ideally backend or full-stack — having been hands-on recently enough to engage meaningfully in technical decisions
- Comfortable navigating significant legacy complexity while steering a team towards a modern, AI-enabled product
- Excellent stakeholder management, with a strong sense of customer and business value
- Demonstrated ability to partner with Product on prioritisation and to articulate why work matters in customer and business terms
- Solid performance management experience, including coaching, promoting, and addressing underperformance
- A collaborative leadership style that fosters a healthy, inclusive team culture across multiple locations
Location
Dublin, Munich, or Berlin. This role requires 2 days per week in the office.
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive reward package including salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
- 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years
- 1 (fully paid) Impact Day
- Generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
Equal Opportunity Statement
Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger.
