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., GitHub Copilot, Agentic Workflows). You act as a change agent, transforming our workflows for maximum efficiency and innovation.
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.
Cultural Stewardship: You foster an inclusive, motivating, high-performance culture and establish modern department rituals that promote knowledge sharing and innovation.

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 (1-2 days at the office, depending on location)
Company pension scheme
Lease bike options / JobRad and 25% subsidy for the Deutschlandticket
Occasional breakfast/lunch at the office, Smoothie Tuesdays
Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform
€50 personal monthly allowance via our dedicated benefits apps for use across daily expenses and lifestyle perks
Future Bens - Exclusive access to sustainable, healthy products at attractive deals
Social events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations
A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

Hybrid — Hamburg

DEPT® is hiring a Manager Engineering (d/f/m)

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