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Omnea is a Series B AI-native procurement platform that has raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel. The company has 10x'd ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and is trusted by global enterprises including Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. Omnea was named the UK's #1 Startup in 2026 and the Sunday Times' #1 Best Medium Sized Tech Company To Work for.
You will join as Engineering Director, reporting directly to the CTO (Dhruv Kumar, who previously scaled engineering at Hopin, Charlotte Tilbury, and THG). This is a manager-of-managers role leading 25-50 engineers across multiple teams and Engineering Managers/Team Leads.
Key responsibilities include:
**Build and Lead the Leaders:** Hire, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and Team Leads. Set and hold a high performance bar, own org design for your area, build the bench of next-generation engineering leaders, and own the headcount plan for your group.
**Own Delivery at Group Scale:** Be accountable for outcomes across several teams simultaneously. Create the operating rhythm (planning, prioritization, reporting) that keeps a multi-team group moving quickly. Unblock cross-team dependencies, ambiguous ownership, and architectural decisions. Ensure robust monitoring, observability, and incident response.
**Shape Technical and Product Strategy:** Partner with the CTO and Product leadership to define and execute the technical roadmap for your domain. Make build/buy, architecture, and technical investment decisions. Balance technical debt, feature development, and reliability. Ensure customer feedback drives technical priorities, including direct time with enterprise customers.
Potential areas include: Accounting and Goods Receipting, Insights and Reporting, Sourcing, Workflow Orchestration, and other expanding areas.
The company works Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in-person at London offices. Omnea emphasizes a commercial, ambitious culture and offers competitive geo-localized benefits, including an employee Future Founders fund.
**Requirements:**
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership
- 2+ years managing managers (hiring, coaching, performance-managing Engineering Managers or Team Leads)
- Led a group of 25-50 engineers across multiple teams and owned org design
- Demonstrated success in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, particularly during rapid-growth periods
- Ideally experience at more than one company, including at least one successful Series A+ B2B SaaS company
- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in modern web technologies
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture (preferably AWS), and scalability challenges
- Strong track record of delivering complex, multi-team programs that moved company outcomes (product adoption, revenue, customer retention)
- Proven history of improving team velocity and quality at group level
- Experience scaling an engineering organization through rapid growth and adapting structure
- Experience implementing engineering processes that scale effectively at pace
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers and translating needs into technical solutions
- Data-driven decision-making with comfort making decisions with incomplete information
- Excellence at influence without authority across Product, Design, GTM, and exec team
- Track record of growing and developing engineering leaders at all levels (Senior, Staff, Principal)
- Ability to stay close to technology to be credible with senior engineers without taking work off them
**Nice to haves:**
- Track record of successful product launches in B2B SaaS
- Experience with procurement/finance systems
- History of contributions to engineering communities
- Experience with TypeScript, React, AWS Serverless (stack preference, not required)
