Engineering Manager - Aftonbladet

Our mission is to enable Schibsted’s world-class media houses to deliver groundbreaking news products. We achieve this mission by experimenting with new ideas, celebrating our failures, sharing our successes, and empowering each other to achieve maximum impact.

As Engineering Manager for one of Aftonbladet’s tech teams, you will be responsible for helping the teams' engineers to grow and driving continuous improvement in the team, including the opportunity to influence culture, facilitate technical delivery and work on strategy and execution. You will additionally have the possibility to work close to other highly dedicated and competent cross-functional teams that are working on building core functionalities in both app and web across our organization.

Get to know more about the team and our challenges here!

Who you are

As our new Engineering Manager we believe that you have a technical background in software engineering (preferably Javascript). You thrive on developing people and building an inclusive team, with a humble and open leadership approach. You have experience in coaching autonomous and cross-functional teams and working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities in an agile environment.

Your responsibilities

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Attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent. Help to improve the recruitment process and be part of it by reviewing technical tasks and holding interviews.

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Develop people through coaching and mentoring. Conduct regular 1:1, goal setting, and feedback conversations with engineers to ensure their well-being and support them in their growth. Continuously work to improve inclusion and belonging on your team and within our organization.

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Foster great teamwork, transparency, and efficiency in collaboration with other teams in the organization in order to reach ours and their goals.

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Advocate and advance modern software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.

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Guiding the teams in continuous improvement and team dynamics.


You’ll be part of a high speed, inclusive and fun environment where openness, collaboration, and passion is key. You will work with talented and ambitious people, that bring their experience to make an impact on how journalism is consumed. We are humble and care a lot about our craft, always helping each other to become better at it. We test, we fail and learn. Each day is about getting closer to Aftonbladet’s vision: a first-class news product that users love and customers buy.

Schibsted is - at its heart - a product and tech company. We have an ambitious mission to provide first-class online marketplaces, build world-class media houses, and help great companies scale. We believe in empowering people in their daily lives!



Schibsted is an international media group with more than 5 000 employees. We have world-class media houses in Scandinavia, leading marketplaces and digital services that empower consumers. Millions of people interact with Schibsted companies every day.

What we do
Our corporate social responsibility is closely linked to our mission of “Empowering people in their daily life”, our values and our core business. We believe that we, together with our users, can contribute to a more sustainable society in what we do every day.

- We empower people by providing transparent and secure marketplaces.
- We empower them by creating services that provide them with better deals.
- We empower them by defending freedom of the press and editorial integrity.

Nordic Marketplaces
Connecting millions of buyers and sellers every month, we provide leading online marketplaces in the Nordics.

Our digital marketplaces such as Finn.no, Blocket.se help people buy and sell new and old things.

Next
Within Next we drive growth and create value for Schibsted’s customers and users. Our four areas Growth, Financial Services, Next Media and Distribution, will secure that innovation prevails as part of Schibsted’s DNA.

News Media
As the largest media group in Scandinavia, our world-class media houses continue to shape the media landscape of today – and tomorrow.

In Scandinavia, our media houses such as VG, Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet keep people informed and updated on important issues in society.