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About the Role

We’re searching for a Senior Engineering Manager within the New Business pillar, leading our Media teams across Ads, Perks, and Sponsored Search. This role sits at the heart of our non-fee revenue strategy with a mission to optimise and grow revenue in ways that enhance - not compromise - the user experience. Our ambition is to ensure media placements feel native, contextually relevant, and thoughtfully targeted, delivering value to both customers and partners. We operate in highly cross-functional squads across Engineering, Product, DSA, Design, and Commercial where collaboration and experimentation are central to how we build. We’re looking for a leader who can drive technical excellence, empower teams, and balance commercial impact with customer-first thinking.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple teams and their Engineering Managers, supporting them in career development through coaching and performance management
Own end-to-end delivery for your teams, ensuring projects are planned, executed, and delivered in a timely and high-quality manner
Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science and business stakeholders to align technical delivery to business outcomes
Use domain expertise to guide teams toward high-impact opportunities
Support technical direction and architecture without being deeply hands-on with code
Drive alignment in cross-team dependencies and ensure clarity on technical prioritisation, system interactions, and data flows between systems
Champion engineering best practices across teams, promoting quality and fostering a culture of technical innovation
Drive operational excellence, ensuring that all teams under your leadership have robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes

Requirements

Proven experience leading engineering teams and successfully delivering complex, multi-team initiatives
Strong record of developing people, building high-performing engineering teams, and growing future leaders
Ability to inspire trust and autonomy at all levels, building a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture
Thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and highly cross-functional environment
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and can influence at all levels of the organization
Lead confidently through ambiguity, creating clarity and momentum in complex or uncertain situations
Passion for driving technical and operational excellence

Location

London
Paris
Barcelona
Milan
Edinburgh
Madrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Work from Abroad

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Private healthcare & dental insurance
Generous work from abroad policy
2-for-1 share purchase plans
EV Scheme
Extra festive time off
Excellent family-friendly benefits
Clear career paths
Transparent pay bands
Personal learning budgets
Regular learning days

About the Company

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel.
Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales.
Collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries.
We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.
A FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities.
Focus on growth in the UK and Europe.

Equal Opportunity

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought.
That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.