Engineering Manager

Overview Engineering Manager - Business Services (f/m/d) — Contentful is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a new Business Services team focused on building AI-enabled products for marketers. This team will expand Contentful’s impact by capturing adjacent spend and workflows, driving innovation at the intersection of content, data, and AI. This is a chance to act as an entrepreneur inside Contentful, shaping vision, culture, and execution from the ground up.
What to expect You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders to understand business strategy and goals, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure our technical architecture, tech stack, and development strategy align with business goals.
Lead and grow a high-performing, globally distributed engineering team with a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to define the roadmap for AI-enabled marketing solutions.
Build scalable, high-performance products that integrate AI capabilities into marketers’ daily workflows, focusing on usability, automation, and business impact.
Drive innovation and experimentation while ensuring secure, reliable, and performant systems.
Mentor and develop engineers across levels, fostering technical excellence and leadership growth.
Guide the team through solution design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.
Ensure alignment between technical execution and business objectives with clear communication of progress and priorities.
What You Need To Be Successful We’re looking for an enthusiastic and entrepreneurial Engineering Manager who thrives in building new teams and products. To succeed in this role, you should:
2+ years of experience leading development teams, with a track record of delivering complex, high-impact technical solutions.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments, balancing short-term impact with long-term strategy.
Experience building or integrating AI-powered products (e.g., LLM-based systems, recommendation engines, personalization features), with a focus on customer and business impact.
Technical depth in modern web technologies and AI/ML-enabled applications, with hands-on experience to guide solutioning and challenge technical decisions.
Excel at optimizing performance and scalability, with experience handling complex content structures and large datasets.
Balance innovation with immediate impact, overseeing technical delivery while driving team capabilities and capacity; eager to work with the latest technologies and products.
Collaborate effectively across teams (Product, Design, Data, Engineering), aligning technical work with business goals.
Strong mentoring track record, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and quality within a distributed team.
Embrace continuous learning and stay up to date with industry trends, encouraging growth within your team.
Bonus Familiarity with martech ecosystems, marketing workflows, and integrations.
Experience working in entrepreneurial or incubation environments, such as starting new teams or products from scratch.
Knowledge of data privacy, compliance, and security best practices in SaaS and AI-enabled applications.
What’s in it for you? Join an ambitious tech company reshaping how digital experiences are built.
Stock options for employees to share in the company’s success.
Fertility and family-building benefits with a lifetime reimbursable wallet.
Strong work-life balance with generous paid time off, including vacation, sick days, education days, compassion days, and volunteer days.
Time off to care for and focus on your growing family.
Personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow your career.
Full range of virtual and in-person events for learning and networking.
Annual wellbeing stipend for physical, financial, or emotional health.
Monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees.
Who we are Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that blends composability with AI capabilities to enable dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation for 4,200+ organizations in 70+ nations. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or unemployment length. If you need accommodations during the application process, please contact us. By applying, you acknowledge reading Contentful’s Candidate Privacy Notice.
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