Location: Berlin, office-first

SumUp enables merchants around the world to get paid easily, process orders quickly, sell online instantly and manage their money more efficiently. SumUp creates the tools merchants need to make their customer experience and their business thrive.

The cross-functional MarTech team is responsible for improving our customer acquisition. This includes optimising our worldwide online marketing spendings, attributing new customers to marketing campaigns, automating content creation through AI, calculating the customer lifetime value of our merchants, and making data from various sources available for analysis and decision making.

We are looking for a humble servant Engineering Manager to lead this team. 

Are you an experienced Engineering Manager with a people-positive mindset and a passion for building systems on cutting-edge data and AI technology? If so, come and join an international team working on services that determine the success of SumUp across the globe!

What you’ll do:

• Create an environment for your cross-functional team of backend, data science, and machine learning engineers to excel. 
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to shape your team's strategy and provide a long-term vision and guidance.
• Be responsible for the delivery of that vision and help define, plan, and drive large-scale projects with stakeholders across the organisation from start to finish.
• Support the growth of your team members by providing continuous feedback, discussing development goals and helping with career development plans.
• Engage and raise your team's engineering culture.

You’ll be great for this role if:

• You have experience building, operating and leveraging data pipelines, machine learning models, and systems leveraging both. 
• You are renowned for great and inclusive people management, mentoring, and the professional development of engineers and data scientists on eye-level.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and manage ambiguity confidently. 
• You have led a distributed team, creating a healthy and collaborative environment. 
• You are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to experiment and improve ways of working, including hiring great talent. 
• It is a plus if you have experience in the MarTech field, or in generative, predictive, and attribution models.

Why you should join SumUp

• We’re a truly global team of 3000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 3 continents.
• You’ll receive a budget for attending conferences and external training. 
• We offer a corporate pension scheme, 28 days’ paid leave, free German and yoga classes, subsidized Urban Sports Club membership, a stock option plan, and other great benefits.
• We offer visa and relocation support for you, your family, and your pets.
• You’ll be based in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe’s leading tech hubs and most vibrant cities.
• You’ll attend global offsites and/or hackathons.

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero. Those who have the courage to follow their passion and who have the strength and determination to realize their dreams. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first attitude' our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by Company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

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