Engineering Manager (Experiences)

About Tripadvisor

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing and aims to be the worlds most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands technology and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content travel guidance and two-sided marketplaces for experiences accommodations restaurants and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP) include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses including Tripadvisor Viator and TheFork.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager for our fast-growing Tripadvisor Experiences org. Tripadvisor Experiences (Viator) is the worlds leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400000 travel experiences to exploreeverything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier.

As the new Engineering Manager youll lead our Experimentation team within the Experiences this role you will own the end-to-end experimentation platform that powers how Tripadvisor tests learns and ships. You will manage a team of talented engineers set technical direction and partner closely with product data science and analytics stakeholders to scale a best-in-class experimentation culture across Experiences. The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering background a track record of building reliable high-scale platforms and the leadership skills to grow a high-performing team in a fast-moving product environment.

We embrace flexibility in where and how work gets done and also value meaningful in-person moments to connect and collaborate. You can expect a remote-first working model with periodic in-person gatherings at your closest office for team connection planning or other key moments. This position is open to candidates based within a commutable distance (generally up to 1.5 hours) from our Oxford office.

What Youll Do:

• Build and lead a high-performing technical team by hiring training and mentoring engineers of all levels.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture and champion effective Agile development processes.
• Develop project plans timelines budgets and resource allocation strategies and ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope and budget.
• Show leadership as a hands-on developer in multiple layers of the software stack and data stack. Perform code and design reviews.
• Work closely with principal engineers to drive technology strategy and roadmap that aligns to the wider organisation vision.
• Work closely with your Product Manager counterpart and the business owner to prioritize product features along with the engineering-driven tasks striving for a good balance between business results and engineering robustness.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals commitments and timelines.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices to ensure deliverables are complete on time and meeting a high-quality standard.

What Youll Need:

• 10 years experience of commercial software development
• 3 years managing five to ten engineers across one or two teams
• Background of working in a product-focused company collaborating closely with stakeholders to build up a backlog of product and technical initiatives
• Directly responsible for giving performance feedback and providing formal career planning to their team
• Strong mentorship skills helping engineers to grow technically and professionally
• Solid understanding of the technologies and tools used by their team with hands-on experience of designing and building scalable high-performance systems
• Excellent ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions
• Proven leadership in driving major projects and actively participating in cross-functional teams in fast-paced dynamic environments
• Accountable for high-quality execution operations and overall team performance
• Uses strong analytical skills to identify risks early mitigate issues and provide contingency plans
• Adept at making high-level decisions about product and technical direction balancing business objectives with engineering capabilities.
• Understands modern software delivery methodologies and project management tools and uses them to drive successful outcome

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data) including base salary and annual bonuses
• Work your way with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team with the option to join on-site as often as youd like or as required by your team.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel wellness or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. Were here for you with resources and programs to help you through lifes challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars:

• Traveller first: We exist to create value for our customer the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.
• Execution is our edge: We act fast experiment learn from failure iterate and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile data-driven prioritised and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone elses problem and finish what can be done today knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.
• We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic humble and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly challenge assumptions give actionable feedback and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort our learnings and our collective achievements.

Discover more in our Tech Blog for an inside look into some of our exciting and ground-breaking technical projects here at Tripadvisor Group.

Tripadvisor Group champions the unique identities abilities and experiences of all our people employees customers and partners. This stems from our belief in the transformative power of travel dining and experiences to connect us and open doors to worlds very different from our own. Our ED&I strategy shapes how we approach our people culture business and reputation. Tripadvisor Group strives to embed inclusion and belonging across all our brands.

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