Engineering Manager – EMEA

Pencil

. Lead, coach and develop a large group of engineers and team leads across multiple teams, running regular 1:1s, feedback, performance reviews and career development against Pencil Pathways .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeRemoteMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing and developing engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement while ensuring alignment with product and business outcomes. Possesses technical fluency to understand software architecture and processes, enabling effective coaching and support for high-performing teams.

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People ManagementTeam Process ImprovementTechnical FluencyAI Tool ImplementationHiring and Onboarding

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Hard Skills

Agile PracticesPerformance MetricsProcess ImprovementTeam DeliveryTechnical Risk Assessment

Soft Skills

CoachingFeedback DeliveryConflict ResolutionInclusive Team CultureContinuous Learning Promotion

Tools & Technologies

AI ToolsSaaS Platforms

Industry Keywords

Engineering ManagementTeam LeadershipProduct DevelopmentRetention StrategiesDiversity in Hiring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach and develop a large group of engineers and team leads across multiple teams, running regular 1:1s, feedback, performance reviews and career development against Pencil Pathways
Work with other Engineering Managers to align planning, delivery cadence, incident and release management, and retrospectives across teams
Contribute process improvements to make ways of working lighter and better
Support the TPM in aligning priorities with Product, Design and Data, setting clear expectations, keeping delivery predictable, and resolving people-related blockers
Support engineering hiring and onboarding, including interview loops and candidate assessment
Build a healthy, inclusive team culture and address conflict, burnout and performance issues
Promote continuous learning through experimentation, open failure reviews and shared actions
Maintain working understanding of architecture, key systems, trade-offs and technical risks through design reviews, incident reviews and roadmap discussions
Hold teams accountable for customer and business outcomes rather than output alone
Champion AI-first ways of working with human review and accountability
Measure and improve retention, engagement, growth, performance, hiring/onboarding, alignment, delivery predictability, quality, value delivered, AI adoption and continuous learning

Requirements

What you’ll need

Several years managing engineers, including managing multiple teams or other managers, ideally in a SaaS or fast-growing product company
A track record of improving team process and delivery (e.g. agile practices, planning, metrics) with measurable results, and of building a culture where teams learn from failure
Strong people management: coaching, giving candid feedback, managing performance and growing talent
Experience supporting hiring (interviewing, assessing candidates) and retaining high-performing engineers, and building diverse teams
Technical fluency: ability to follow how software is built and shipped, understand architecture and trade-off discussions, spot technical risk and ask good questions, and earn engineers' trust, without needing to code or design systems yourself
A track record of teams delivering measurable value (customer or business outcomes), not just shipping features
Hands-on experience introducing AI tools into how a team works, with a clear view of where human judgement stays essential
Legal right to work and remain in the country in which you intend to work from

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days PTO plus public holidays, although we operate a Flexible Time Off scheme
Health insurance / private medical cover
Monthly stipend towards wellness, fitness, and learning and development
Remote - work from anywhere in your home country
Enhanced parental leave policies, whether you become a parent through birth, adoption or surrogacy
Access to our Pencil office in The Shard, London for UK employees
Flexible working hours