Engineering Manager, Carwow
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Carwow is the one-stop shop to change your car.
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Carwow is the one-stop shop to change your car.
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower our customers to discover, buy, sell and drive cars with total confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and managing engineering teams - you possess thought leadership and critical thinking skills
- Previous experience as a hands-on Software developer is key to being a mentor, however, you now enjoy working and developing your team
- Clear communication and collaboration skills - you enjoy partnering and strategising with Stakeholders to influence our products
- You’ll need to challenge the status-quo - we’re a fast-growing tech-scale up and we like to apply a growth mindset to the way we do things
- Play a key role in participating in networking events and conferences that we host/run/sponsor
- Enjoy leading distributed teams and working cross-functionally with product managers, stakeholders, and other developers
- Be able to manage and coach remote employees effectively
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join and support our expanding team
- This role is hands-off from a technical perspective and is a people management focused role, reporting to and partnering closely with our Senior Engineering Managers, you’ll also collaborate with our Engineering Manager cohort to support our 35 (and growing) Engineers across 6 cross-functional Product Teams
- You will support our customer or commercial facing engineering teams as they develop essential components of our platform and data strategy to expand Carwow's operations
- It’s an exciting opportunity to join a growing company and have a real impact on the culture and environment as we go along this journey
- You’ll have an opportunity to influence everything from daily engineering practices to defining our future engineering organisation structure, and everything in between
- Managing, leading and mentoring between 6-12 people across 1-2 teams - through relationship building, 1:1 coaching, goal setting and feedback
- Work with Product Managers and Lead Engineers to foster effective, healthy autonomous teams
- Empower teams by coaching, sharing business context, translating a sense of purpose, and advocating for their needs
- Work with the People team and other Engineering Managers on the implementation and evolution of our career progression, compensation and performance evaluation frameworks, along with other strategic initiatives
- Act as the hiring manager for different engineering roles and work on improving diversity and inclusion within engineering
- Ensure clear direction, vision, and strategy for your teams and promote a positive and inclusive culture
- Communicate effectively, handle unforeseen issues, and represent the company in various ways
- Attract talented engineers and actively build relationships with senior members of the organisation
- Coach and mentor direct reports, support systemic improvements, and make a difference in team effectiveness and output
- You must at all times strive to act in the customers’ best interest, delivering honest, fair, and professional services
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Carwow thinks there should be a better way to buy cars than going down to a local dealer and having to haggle. It has made it easy for customers to find exactly the car they are looking for, right down to the combination of optional extras, and removed the need for haggling.
It is the largest web platform for new car sales in the UK, Germany and Spain, and has clever marketing tactics: it benefits from a large following on YouTube with close to 7 million subscribers, attracting 70 million monthly views to videos that feature a mix of in-depth car reviews and drag races.
Carwow currently has over six million users per month actively looking to purchase a vehicle via its online platform. Following its acquisition of Wizzle in 2021, over 100,000 consumers listed their used car on carwow in the first 5 months of 2022, and over one million requested a valuation.
The company is embarking on an exciting and ambitious phase of growth with a series of acquisitions, senior promotions, and appointments, and the breadth of services it provides to car retailers and car manufacturers will be both enhanced and widened.
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"A significant proportion of carwow's mid-managerial leaders have been internally promoted, and there are countless examples of people going from an..."
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2023
$3.8m
LATE VC
Sep 2022
$20.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $174.4m
Company benefits
- Share Options
- Flexible working
- £500/€550 Home Office budget
- Private Medical insurance
- Generous learning and development budget
- Work from anywhere for 1 month scheme
- Family friendly policies
- Mental Health first aiders + coaching
- Bi-annual staff WOW awards
- Hybrid working and remote optional
Company values
- Clear
- Collaborative
- Curious
- Effective
- Humble
- Positive
- Proactive
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Founders
James Hind
(Founder)Studied Finance, Accounting & Management at the University of Nottingham.
Alexandra Margolis
(Creative Director)Digital Media graduate at Digitas UK before dropping out to start Carwow.
David Santoro
(CTO)Previously a developer for Barclays and ITV.
People progressing
Joined as an Account Manager in 2016. Has worked as Director of 'Sell Your Car' since July 2021.
Alyx joined as an Account Manager in 2017, she now leads the UK Commercial Operations team
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