Engineering Director, Storio group
Data & Machine Learning
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1+ day a week in office
eCommerce photo product company
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eCommerce photo product company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make joy unforgettable by bringing our customers’ stories to life through a range of high-quality personalized photo products, like photo books, wall decor, calendars & gifts.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate knows how to take vague problems and identify concrete solutions, can tie abstract concepts to business issues, and can convert technical debt into strategic opportunities
- You will have experience building and running enterprise platforms in a product oriented way
- Worked on both Strategy and Delivery of a data platform
- Lead the strategy and execution of a data platform supporting self serve consumption and automation data products
- Proven ability to balance the speed of delivery with the right long term technical solution, ensuring the platform is maintainable, scalable and secure
- Ability to agree clear goals for the teams to deliver on the strategy
- Experience managing managers of teams to successful delivery and measuring & managing team performance
- Experience creating and managing governance through defined frameworks
- Demonstrable experience of working with stakeholders across the business to understand and help define their key priorities for data products
- Comfortable and diplomatic enough to push back to keep focus on agreed goals
- Is a great communicator, and can socialise the why, as well as the how, and when for the delivery
- Demonstrable experience across the data platform domain including: data platform ML Ops, technical architecture, business metric definition, modelling, and reporting
- Experience working on big data systems with billions of rows of data
- Has worked, understands and can recommend the different approaches to large scale data processing
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Director, Data & ML Engineering to join our team of Data, Analytics and ML Engineers to transform our infrastructure, tools, platforms whilst building a culture that enables business value and growth
- You will work closely with leaders across Product, Analytics, Commercial, and Marketing to support and implement high-quality, data-driven decisions
- You’ll build on your previous experiences of establishing and building strategy to enable the next phase of our transformation
- You’ll be able to help us build scalable, reliable infrastructure and data architecture, scale up our alerting and observability frameworks, and establish business processes to prevent quality issues
- You will understand how data is improving the efficiency of everyone in the business to make more informed decisions
- You will be part of the Technology leadership team working closely with fellow Engineering, Product and Business leaders in other domains
- Given the broad reach of data across the whole organisation, your network will also incorporate the broader Senior Leadership Team across the business
- You will be accountable for managing, coaching and supporting two teams of Data / Analytics Engineers and ML Engineers. Who maintain and grow our data platform and our ML operations
- Storio Group sees the Data platform as a significant driver of competitive advantage. We are embarking on an acceleration initiative to improve the underlying technology as we move out of our integration phase and into growth. We are currently defining our next phase of the Storio group Strategy (as we near the end of an integration/migration chapter post-merger, 2 years ago). We are now defining how we transition to growth - with ambitions that this can be to double-digit
- We believe data, AI and ML should be front and centre of that vision - a key enabler for competitive advantage. The current state of our platform is not where it needs to be after multiple years of migrations. You will need to be comfortable balancing the competing needs of debt removal building towards our goal of the fast flow of value creation
- We will also need to create a platform which empowers the needs of our ML team to build, test, run and improve our models. Leveraging the rich set of customer data to enable joy for our customers
- Finally all of these changes will need to be supported by a strong approach to governance and you will need to be comfortable supporting and enabling these processes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Storio Group is a personalised photo company that creates photo books, wall decor, calendars, and gifts that are tailored to the individual.
The result of a merger that combined eight brands across fourteen European markets, Storio Group is vertically integrated and, unlike many competitors, manufactures the vast majority of the products it sells. The pan-European company serves over 7 million customers and is rapidly expanding, with its own state-of-the-art printing facilities across the European continent.
The company rebrand in 2024 was part of a two-year post-merger strategy that focused on integration, innovation, and growth across the Storio Group. With 11 million customers across the globe across its brands, Storio Group’s new identity follows a leadership change and signifies a significant brand consolidation.
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42% female employees
13% employee growth in 12 months
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Company benefits
- 8 weeks out of the year to work working remotely abroad
- Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the team
- Annual Performance bonus (Discretionary)
- 25 days of holiday a year (excluding public holidays) increasing by 1 day each year up to 30 days after 5 years continuous service
- Healthcare, dental and life assurance
- Pension scheme with employer/employee contributions
- Cycle to work scheme
Company values
- Act with heart; People - both customers and employees - are at the heart of all we do. So we embrace diversity and get to know each other as real people and build real relationships based on mutual understanding and respect.
- Give our best; As the crafters and makers of people’s memories, we play an important role in our customers’ lives. That’s why we give our best and work together to build a better business, every day.
- Own all we do; We are all, as individuals and as a team, responsible for creating our success and shaping our future. We lead the charge and drive things forward - fully owning our actions and decisions along the way.
- Embrace curiosity; We believe progress requires curiosity. So, we’re relentlessly curious about the world and each other, actively seeking out diverse perspectives and always asking big questions like ‘why’ and ‘what’s next’?
- Find the joy; At Storio, joy matters. We see it as a state of mind, so while we don’t pretend every day will be easy, we do set out every day to intentionally find, create and share big and little moments of joy with our customers and teammates.
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Alessandro Coppo
(CEO)Previously Senior Vice President of eBay classifieds, Principal at the Boston Consulting Group.
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