Engineering Manager - Machine Learning

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

Schibsted is placing a major bet on machine learning. Whether it’s for users buying their next home or finding the next article to read, our journalists or editors crafting their next story, or our advertising or marketplace times trying to deliver exactly the right content at exactly the right time, we want to use machine learning to make people superhuman. We’re not in the business of replacing real people with machine learning - we’re in the business of making them more effective at a scale that would otherwise be impossible.

We’re looking for an engineering manager to help us continue to grow our already world-class machine learning organization. You’ll lead a team of talented data scientists and data engineers working on projects across Schibsted’s News Media, Marketplaces and Next (growth companies) divisions.

In this role you will

- Manage a central team of data scientists and data engineers, delivering major impact across all of Schibsted
- Develop people through coaching and mentoring
- Work in a distributed environment leading a team based in both Sweden and Norway
- Collaborate with your product counterpart to ensure the team is empowered to deliver on its mission
- Contribute to the technical strategy of the organization and shape how ML is applied across Schibsted
- Foster great teamwork, transparency, and efficiency in collaboration with other teams in the organization in order to reach our and their goals
- Attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent.

About you

- You have solid experience as an engineering leader. You have led a team before, and when we talk to you about recruitment, team dynamics, team development and performance enablement you can line up relevant examples from your journey as a leader
- You thrive on developing people and building a diverse and inclusive team
- 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
- You’re an effective communicator and bring strong feedback skills to your team.
- You’re proficient in English in verbal and written form
- Experience leading data teams is a major plus, particularly experience working with data scientists/ML engineers
- You will not be expected to be hands on in this role, but technical expertise in data engineering or data science is a plus.




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.