Director of Engineering (m/f/d) - MaaS Unit (1-year limited contract)

Director of Engineering (m/f/d) - MaaS Unit (1-year limited contract)

Join us as a Director of Engineering (m/f/d) in our MaaS Unit, for an exciting 1-year (limited contract) mission to shape the future of mobility!

About your teams

• Director of Engineering
• MaaS Unit
• Providing mobility as a service

What you will do

• Proactively Collaborate: Engage with multiple distributed stream-aligned and complicated subsystem teams within your business unit to ensure alignment and synergy.
• Influence Roadmap: Work closely with the Product Director to shape and influence the product roadmap, ensuring it aligns with company goals and customer needs.
• Lead with Servant Leadership: Guide and inspire world-class engineering teams using a servant leadership approach, fostering a supportive and empowering environment.
• Empower Teams: Support a bottom-up tech culture, empowering your teams to take ownership and responsibility for their work while deciding and clearly communicating the guardrails for strategic direction setting
• Assure Quality: Ensure the systems owned by your teams meet the highest quality standards, including code reviews, testing, and validation processes across team boundaries.
• Conduct Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to address them effectively.
• Strategic Contribution: Partner with peers across product, tech, and design to contribute to the overall company strategy, and effectively communicate this strategy to teams and stakeholders at various levels.
• Culture Development: Play an active role in shaping and nurturing the MOIA tech culture, ensuring it remains innovative and inclusive.
• Support Cross-Unit Projects: Contribute to cross-unit autonomous driving and licensing projects,
• leveraging your expertise to drive success.
• Team staffing and Budgeting: Plan headcount needs, participate in hiring processes and budget allocations

What will help you to fulfill your role

• You are interested in helping highly self-organized and cross-functional teams to work together towards a shared goal.
• You have interest in bringing your products forward and having a strong customer focus, as well as a good technical understanding.
• You have a deep understanding of building digital products and modern software engineering, at scale.
• You have deep knowledge of team and organizational setups, e.g. Conway's Law, Team Topologies, Dunbar's number as well as knowledge of agile methods and frameworks.
• You have strong leadership experience (Delegation, Mentoring, Empowerment, Servant Leadership).
• You have experience in growing and enabling diverse multinational teams.
• You have experience in collaborating with stakeholders from different functions, including compliance topics.
• You have experience navigating between "startup" and "enterprise" culture.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (including bonus)
• Hybrid work setup: Work from home or one of our offices - you and your team decide how often to meet, blending flexibility with collaboration!
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of flexible work arrangements depending on your needs (parenting, care work, volunteering, etc.)
• Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office setup
• Possibility of remote work from outside Germany for up to 6 weeks per year from over 35 countries - learn more in our blog!
• Public transport ticket (fully subsidized "Deutschlandticket") for commuting and travelling throughout Germany and discount on MOIA rides
• Subsidized fitness club membership or bike leasing
• Learning environment with continuous learning days, job rotation, trainings and workshops, coaching, conferences, books, and language classes
• Mental health support, 1:1 sessions with external professionals and mental unload workshops
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
• Relocation support with service provider (visa, administration, etc.)
• Dog-friendly offices
• Public Transport
• Wellness Program

Remote Model: Hybrid