Director of Engineering - Data Foundations

Are you passionate about developing people and organizations? Do you have solid experience as a leader and are you looking for the next challenge? Do you thrive when the bar is set high? Then we might have the right role for you!

Rethinking things is core to Schibsted’s DNA and this is why we are well on the way of diving deep into territories such as AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data. We are going to dig even deeper into user behaviour in order to meet consumer needs even better than today. We’ll use this to rethink and develop more groundbreaking services and products that will push both ourselves, our customers, and the market forward.

Data Foundations is a department within P&T Foundations in Schibsted Data and Technology. We are solving exciting problems at scale, spanning from gathering up to 950 million events per day while keeping users' privacy and data security in mind, to building high-quality predictive machine learning models. Our services are powering critical use-cases in Schibsted such as producing insights about our customers, segments for the online advertising on our sites, and personalization of our news.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to run our Data Foundations Engineering organization, responsible for the suite of products and services leveraged broadly across Schibsted for user identification, payments, and privacy.

In this role you will:

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Lead an engineering organization of around 30-40 people, currently organized into five teams

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Collaborate with your product counterpart to deliver on our mission

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Work in a distributed environment leading teams in Sweden and Norway

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Report to Data & Tech CTO and collaborate with other great engineering leaders. We take leadership seriously and the team you will be part of sees it as natural to collaborate, prioritize, support each other and challenge the status quo

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Have an impact and grow as a leader

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Take part in guiding the continuous improvement of process and technology


About you:

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This is not your first management role - you have solid experience as an engineering leader. Everything from recruitment, performance enablement and tech strategy to organizational design comes naturally to you

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You might already have been leading leaders in a previous role, but if you haven’t, you have worked in a role where you have had substantial responsibility that has made you ready for a new challenge

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You have a software development background and understand technology, preferable in the data space (Kafka, Spark)

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You have experience of working in or with distributed teams and know that it requires great communication skills and the ability to travel

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You thrive on learning. We have so many opportunities to learn here: From a world and an industry that is changing in a big way, from an organization that is evolving to respond to it, and from each other

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Have a track record of delivering successful products as an engineer and a team lead

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Have a strong sense of ownership and take responsibility for the success of our organization

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Have an ability to take smart risks and champion new ideas

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Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility




Schibsted is a family of digital brands with a strong Nordic position, and more than 5,000 employees. Millions of people interact with our companies every day through our leading online marketplaces, world-class media houses. We also help new promising businesses grow. Our joint mission of empowering people in their daily lives is rooted in the values of our media heritage and a legacy of bold change. At our best, we are a fearless force for change in a society built on trust and transparency.

Data & Tech is a central product and tech unit that serves all of Schibsted. We are about 250+ people in Oslo, Stockholm, and Krakow, and collaborate closely with other product and tech teams in all units in Schibsted. Areas of responsibilities include data & technology strategy, privacy/data trends/responsible data & machine learning, information security, and internal IT.