About the Role
The GenAI Enablement Tribe engineers HelloFresh's transformation into an AI-native company, providing the platform and embedded engineering to redesign commercial functions and change how employees work. This role leads four teams across Berlin and Warsaw, with a mandate spanning all group functions. You will be part of the engineering leadership team, with decision authority, direct access to group leadership, and the opportunity to shape strategy, reporting directly to the SVP Engineering. Your mission is to leverage GenAI to change the way people eat forever.
Responsibilities
- Own the GenAI platform, including LLM gateway, MCP gateway, agent platform, plugin marketplace, spec-driven development tooling, evals, and agent observability, to shorten the path from idea to running.
- Lead embedded engineers into marketing, HR, finance, and operations to redesign processes to be AI-native, shipping against business KPIs and generalizing builds back into the platform.
- Build GenAI proficiency across HelloFresh through curriculum, cohorts, and per-function enablement paths, measured by demonstrated skill.
- Co-create the group GenAI strategy with global central functions leadership, convert it into a delivery roadmap with Product, and own budget and investment decisions.
- Lead and develop Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers in Berlin and Warsaw, ensuring accountability for delivery, engineering standards, and team health, while scaling AI-native practices into BAU.
- Own guardrails, evals, model routing, cost control, and the compliance boundary with Security, Legal, and Procurement to ensure safe and affordable adoption.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading Engineering Managers across multiple disciplines, with a track record of holding teams accountable for delivery and technical quality.
- Experience designing, building, and shipping agentic systems, understanding context engineering, tool calling, agent orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation harnesses.
- Proven record of building internal platforms that engineers adopted, distinguishing between feature-shipping and friction-removing platform teams.
- Experience leading a transformation program, large enablement effort, or function-wide process redesign that sustained post-transition.
- Credibility in design reviews and experience guiding senior stakeholders through initially skeptical decisions.
- Experience owning technology or AI strategy at an organization or business unit level, including build vs. buy decisions and sequencing pilots into production.
- Low ego, high ownership, and clarity over complexity in decision-making.
- Willingness to be specific about personal contributions, failures, and efforts beyond technical builds.
- Readiness to state if technology strategy has been set above team level and if GenAI is the next step.
Skills
- GenAI platform ownership
- Agentic systems
- Platform adoption
- Transformation leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Technology strategy
- AI strategy
- Build vs. buy decisions
- Team leadership
- Engineering management
- Cost control
- Governance
- Compliance
Location
- Berlin
- Warsaw
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years in software engineering
- 5+ years leading Engineering Managers
Benefits
- Meal kit discount
- Company pension scheme
- Discounted memberships with Urban Sports Club and John Reed
- Yoga classes
- Access to Headspace and Spill
- Flexible hours
- Work From Home/Abroad options
- Home office setup budget
- Financial support for childcare costs
- Deutschlandticket allowance
- Access to internal training programmes
- Central L&D budget
About the Company
- HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities.
Equal Opportunity
- HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, please reach out to us at: Europe: EUaccommodations@hellofresh.com. APAC: APACaccommodations@hellofresh.com United States: USCandidateAccommodations@hellofresh.com Canada: CAaccommodations@hellofresh.com
