Senior Engineering Manager AI Applications Platform (fmd)

About the Opportunity

Join Contentfuls AI Applications Platform team as a Senior Engineering Manager (f/m/d) and play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of AI-powered capabilities that are embedded directly into Contentfuls product experiences.

Our AI Applications Platform team builds application-platform capabilities reusable components reference implementations product teams across Contentful use to ship AI-powered features quickly and safely.

This is a product-facing platform role: you will stay close to user needs (internal builders and sometimes end customers) focus on developer experience and adoption and ship iteratively. This role is not focused on running infrastructure (SRE) database operations or security operations.

In 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 an engineering leader with a strong background in web and application development who enjoys building reusable capabilities while staying close to product delivery user needs and cross-functional collaboration. Your work will amplify Contentfuls ability to bring innovative AI solutions to market by scaling impact across multiple teams and business functions.

What to expect

• Lead and scale high-performing engineering teams building AI application-platform capabilities used across Contentfuls products.
• Set and maintain a technical vision for developer-friendly reusable tools and components that help feature teams ship AI-powered experiences reliably.
• Drive initiatives around modular AI actions streaming experiences at the product layer developer-facing debugging and run insights and traceability features that help teams meet regulatory and transparency requirements.
• Partner with Product Design and Engineering leaders to align strategic roadmaps and deliver measurable business value.
• Serve as a consultant and enabler for product teams by delivering reusable well-documented platform components and guiding successful adoption.
• Ensure AI capabilities are intuitive to adopt secure by design and governed through product-level guardrails and patterns.
• Guide teams through the full lifecycle: discovery design implementation rollout/adoption iteration and continuous improvement.
• Recruit mentor and coach team members to foster technical and leadership growth.
• Act as a thought partner to senior leadership helping shape Contentfuls long-term AI strategy and how AI capabilities are delivered through product experiences.
• Promote responsible AI development practices including ethics bias mitigation transparency and privacy-by-design.
• Monitor market and technology trends and evaluate emerging tools and methodologies for practical product impact.

What you need to be successful

• 5 years of experience in technical leadership specifically managing software engineering teams; strong experience building shared product-platform capabilities (APIs/components) used by multiple teams.
• 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.

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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