Engineering Manager - Workflows (f/m/d)

Contentful

London, United Kingdom
On-site
High-performing globally distributed teams
Platform adoption across teams
Event-driven distributed systems concepts
Lead one of Contentful’s highly leveraged platform teams, the Workflows team, which owns the Orchestration Platform for approvals, tasks, triggers, and automation

Job Summary

  • Lead one of Contentful’s highly leveraged platform teams, the Workflows team, which owns the Orchestration Platform for approvals, tasks, triggers, and automation.
  • Build and support high-performing, globally distributed teams, partner closely with Product and Design, and enable platform adoption across teams.
  • Strengthen operational practices, coach and develop engineers, and collaborate with AI Enablement teams to integrate AI-powered capabilities into workflows.

Matching Summary

Lead one of Contentful’s highly leveraged platform teams, the Workflows team, which owns the Orchestration Platform for approvals, tasks, triggers, and automation.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • high-performing globally distributed teams
  • platform adoption across teams
  • event-driven distributed systems concepts
  • quality mindset for platforms
  • modern AI-enabled product development

Nice-to-have

  • strong partnership with many internal customers
  • comfortable working in ambiguity and change
  • product-minded
  • strong collaboration across many stakeholders
  • people leadership strength

Key Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional development teams
  • Experience with platform or foundational teams
  • Technical breadth across modern web platforms and backend distributed systems
  • Familiarity with event-driven distributed systems concepts
  • Strong quality mindset for platforms
  • Product-minded
  • Strong collaboration across many stakeholders and teams
  • People leadership strength
  • Familiarity with modern AI-enabled product development

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