Head of Engineering

MBR Partners

Job Location:

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

MBR partners are currently working with an analytics and performance company focused on the Unified Comms vertical. The clients provide optimisation solutions for outstanding customer experience productivity and communication performance.

The company are now in scale up and we are hiring for a Head of Engineering to manage and drive and expand the product evolution.

The Senior Engineering Leader will provide strategic oversight of the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) while maintaining hands-on ownership of all engineering activities. This role will define and evolve the technical direction within the R&D organization ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities

Provide strategic and operational leadership across all engineering functions and the full SDLC.
Define implement and continuously refine the technical strategy for the R&D organization.
Lead and develop multiple autonomous development squads fostering a high-performance product-led culture.
Embed a partner-first mindset and ensure engineering efforts deliver measurable commercial and customer value.
Drive execution excellence and introduce modern engineering practices and tools to improve efficiency and quality.
Oversee the management of both legacy platforms and SaaS portfolios ensuring scalability performance and market relevance.
Promote continuous improvement innovation and a culture of clarity accountability and collaboration.
Serve as a technical thought leader guiding teams through complex challenges in a fast-paced scale-up environment.

Candidate Profile

A technically adept innovator with a proven track record of leading engineering teams in high-growth or complex environments.
Demonstrated experience driving organisational performance through strategic clarity cultural transformation and continuous improvement.
Strong understanding of scalable software architectures modern development practices and R&D leadership.

What you bring

Experience: 7 years in SaaS Engineering Management with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role
or head-of-function role.
Leadership: Proven ability to lead engineering teams to deliver successful outcomes.
Commercial mindset: Skilled at linking technical outcomes to customer success adoption and
recurring revenue growth.
Strategic communicator: Excellent at storytelling influencing and creating clarity across
executive commercial and technical teams.
Execution focus: Able to balance strategic direction with hands-on technology ownership

Knowledge of the Microsoft Teams ecosystem including Teams Phone Direct Routing Operator
Connect and associated analytics and integration capabilities.
Partner with the Head of Product and Product Owners to ensure timely high-quality product releases.
Deliver technical leadership to constantly improve our tech stack of:
Python Java C# TypeScript

Experience with Microsoft Teams Phone call recording analytics or BI integrations.
Background in partner-led SaaS go-to-market models.
Familiarity with AI API-driven integration or data enrichment solutions.

Please ignore any references to salary as the clients will pay according to the individual needs of an applicant

Competitive salary performance bonus and potential equity participation.

Required Experience:

Director

The company are now in scale up and we are hiring for a Head of Engineering to manage and drive and expand the product evolution.

Key Responsibilities

Provide strategic and operational leadership across all engineering functions and the full SDLC.
Define implement and continuously refine the technical strategy for the R&D organization.
Lead and develop multiple autonomous development squads fostering a high-performance product-led culture.
Embed a partner-first mindset and ensure engineering efforts deliver measurable commercial and customer value.
Drive execution excellence and introduce modern engineering practices and tools to improve efficiency and quality.
Oversee the management of both legacy platforms and SaaS portfolios ensuring scalability performance and market relevance.
Promote continuous improvement innovation and a culture of clarity accountability and collaboration.
Serve as a technical thought leader guiding teams through complex challenges in a fast-paced scale-up environment.

Candidate Profile

A technically adept innovator with a proven track record of leading engineering teams in high-growth or complex environments.
Demonstrated experience driving organisational performance through strategic clarity cultural transformation and continuous improvement.
Strong understanding of scalable software architectures modern development practices and R&D leadership.

What you bring

Please ignore any references to salary as the clients will pay according to the individual needs of an applicant

Competitive salary performance bonus and potential equity participation.

Required Experience:

Director

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