Head of Engineering

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company at the intersection of technology and marketing. The Head of Engineering leads the engineering teams in Germany, focusing on leadership, AI-driven development, and operational excellence, while managing a team of Team Leads and Senior Engineers.

• Leadership of Leaders: You lead, coach, and mentor Team Leads and Senior Engineers. You own their career paths and empower them to lead their own sub-teams to excellence
• AI Change Management: You define the roadmap for integrating Artificial Intelligence into the daily engineering lifecycle (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Agentic Workflows). You act as a change agent, transforming our workflows for maximum efficiency and innovation
• Operational Excellence: You take full ownership of your department's operational performance (resource planning, budget monitoring, utilization) and ensure a profitable and scalable engineering organization
• Strategic Partnering: You work closely with Directors and VPs to sharpen DEPT®’s technological vision in the DACH region and act as a high-level technical sparring partner for our key accounts
• Cultural Stewardship: You foster an inclusive, motivating, high-performance culture and establish modern department rituals that promote knowledge sharing and innovation

• Proven People Manager: You have a track record of leading teams in a "manager-of-managers" structure or significant experience leading larger engineering departments
• Change Agent: You are passionate about the potential of AI in the software lifecycle and have a clear vision of how modern engineering organizations must evolve
• Frontend Background: You possess a deep technical history in frontend development, allowing you to validate architectural decisions and act as a mentor on eye-level
• Business Acumen: You understand the economic drivers of an agency or consultancy and can translate KPIs into actionable success
• Communication: You are a confident communicator in both German and English, able to present complex technical topics to both stakeholders and clients

• Flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location)
• 25 days holiday with the opportunity to take unpaid leave
• Flexible health budget and Wellness & personal day
• Learning & development budget
• Referral bonus program
• Occasional breakfast & lunch at the office, Smoothie Tuesday
• Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform
• You can choose to work from the spacious and barrier-free location in Zurich; in Bern you can expect a small but nice and fully equipped office where you can hit the keys in peace
• Social events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards
• Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities