Senior Engineering Manager - AI Platform (f/m/d)
Senior Engineering Manager - AI Platform (f/m/d)
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About the Opportunity
Join Contentfuls AI Platform team as a Senior Engineering Manager - AI Platform (f/m/d) and play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of AI-powered developer-friendly platform capabilities. Our AI Platform teams are building the trusted foundation that enables Contentful and our customers to confidently deliver AI-enabled this role you will help drive two critical areas of our AI strategy:
- Empowering customers and internal teams to build accurate trustworthy and governed agentic solutions that are easy and intuitive to adopt.
- Providing enterprise-ready access to LLMs that enables product teams across Contentful to deliver secure scalable and reliable AI-powered features.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technical manager who thrives at the intersection of product development platform engineering and cross-functional collaboration. Your work will amplify Contentfuls ability to bring innovative AI solutions to market scaling impact across multiple teams and business functions.
What to expect
- Lead and scale high-performing engineering teams focused on core AI platform capabilities.
- Set and maintain a technical vision for scalable developer-friendly tools that empower feature teams to rapidly and reliably build and integrate AI-powered solutions.
- Drive initiatives around modular AI actions streaming support observability and traceability ensuring compliance with AI content authenticity and regulatory requirements (such as EU AI Act and GDPR).
- Partner with Product Design and Engineering leaders to align strategic roadmaps and deliver measurable business value.
- Ensure AI capabilities (agentic frameworks and LLM platforms) are secure governed reliable and intuitive.
Serve as a consultant and enabler for product teams by delivering reusable well-documented AI platform components and guiding adoption. - Recruit mentor and coach team members to foster technical and leadership growth.
- Guide teams through the full lifecycle: discovery design implementation scaling and continuous improvement.
- Act as a thought partner to senior leadership helping shape Contentfuls long-term AI strategy.
- Promote responsible AI development practices including ethics bias mitigation and privacy.
- Monitor market and technology trends evaluating emerging tools and methodologies.
What you need to be successful
- 5 years experience in technical leadership specifically managing software/platform engineering teams; direct experience building platform products and infrastructure at scale.
- Proven track record delivering high-quality software and platform capabilities for internal and external customers.
- Deep engineering background including cloud architectures containerization and scalable APIs.
- Demonstrated ability to abstract complex AI technologies (LLMs RAG integrations) into usable compliant and extensible platform features.
- Strategic data-driven thinking in translating business requirements into effective technical execution.
- Advanced stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience embedding governance compliance and privacy (e.g. GDPR CCPA AI transparency requirements) within development practices.
- Outcome-oriented and pragmatic; focused on delivering tangible business impact and customer value.
- Entrepreneurial mindset; comfortable with ambiguity and change.
- Commitment to professional development and team growth.
- Excellent communication skills aligning diverse stakeholders.
- Bonus Experience in content management digital experience platforms or integrating AI/ML solutions into SaaS platforms.
- Bonus Understanding of AI ethics bias mitigation and responsible AI practices.
Whats in it for you
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Fertility and family building benefits including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We valueWork-Life balanceandYou Time!A generous amount of paid time off including vacation days sick days education days compassion days for loss and volunteer days
- Time off to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events including workshops guest speakers and fun team activities supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical financial or emotional health
- A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
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Who are we
Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities Contentful enables dynamic personalization automated content delivery and real-time experimentation powering next-generation digital experiences across brands regions and channels for more than 4200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful working from hubs in Berlin Denver San Francisco London New York and distributed worldwide.
Everyone is welcome here!
Everyone is welcome here is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sexual orientation gender gender identity age physical disability or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
