Engineering Jobs

Head of Engineering
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. This role is part of our Experience & Engineering team in Germany. In this key leadership position, you are responsible for the strategic direction and growth of our Engineering teams. You will lead a team of approximately 7-9 professionals, including Team Leads and Senior Engineers. Your focus shifts from writing code to building systems : you will optimize processes, develop the next generation of leaders, and actively drive the cultural change toward AI-driven development .
Leadership of Leaders: You lead, coach, and mentor Team Leads and Senior Engineers. You own their career paths and empower them to lead their own sub-teams to excellence.
AI Change Management: You define the roadmap for integrating Artificial Intelligence into the daily engineering lifecycle (e.g., Operational Excellence: You take full ownership of your department’s operational performance (resource planning, budget monitoring, utilization) and ensure a profitable and scalable engineering organization.
Strategic Partnering: You work closely with Directors and VPs to sharpen DEPT®’s technological vision in the DACH region and act as a high-level technical sparring partner for our key accounts.
Proven People Manager: You have a track record of leading teams in a „manager-of-managers“ structure or significant experience leading larger engineering departments.
Change Agent: You are passionate about the potential of AI in the software lifecycle and have a clear vision of how modern engineering organizations must evolve.
Frontend Background: You possess a deep technical history in frontend development, allowing you to validate architectural decisions and act as a mentor on eye-level.
Business Acumen: You understand the economic drivers of an agency or consultancy and can translate KPIs into actionable success.
Communication: You are a confident communicator in both German and English, able to present complex technical topics to both stakeholders and clients.
Flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location);
~Social events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
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