Senior Engineering Manager - Shipping Services (m/f/n)
InPost
Job Description
<h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul><li>Manage delivery across multiple engineering teams or an entire domain, defining delivery standards and ensuring consistency, quality, and velocity across teams.</li><li>Report to C-level stakeholders on progress, risks, and business impact, translating engineering outcomes into business language and strategic recommendations.</li><li>Own domain-level SDLC governance: align standards across teams while enabling each team to own its practices, eliminate systemic organizational blockers, and define domain-level OKRs, KPIs, and SLAs.</li><li>Define architecture and technical standards for the domain (or the wider tech organization), collaborating closely with Staff Software Engineers on key architectural decisions.</li><li>Own platform and infrastructure strategy for the domain, driving technical consistency across teams and reduction of technical debt.</li><li>Define the domain's AI adoption strategy, represent the domain in the AI Steering Committee/AI Hub, measure AI ROI, and help shape the organization's AI Playbook.</li><li>Coach and develop Engineering Managers, build a talent pipeline across all levels (including Staff Engineers and future EMs), and design career paths and development programs.</li><li>Build a high-performance, inclusive engineering culture, escalating difficult personnel situations appropriately to HR and senior leadership.</li><li>Shape recruitment and process standards, actively attract talent through employer branding and professional networks, and manage the domain's organizational structure (team sizing, roles, dependencies).</li><li>Communicate strategy and progress to C-level, manage cross-domain dependencies, and build relationships with key business stakeholders; represent <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/inpost">InPost</a> Tech externally (conferences, partnerships).</li><li>Build a feedback and learning culture through systematic mechanisms (360°, pulse surveys, retrospectives) and translate feedback into domain-level action plans.</li><li>Sponsor and lead cross-team/cross-domain initiatives (architectural reviews, workshops), and actively participate in — or lead — communities of practice.</li><li>Shape innovation direction for the domain, manage a portfolio of innovation initiatives (AI, new platforms, experimentation), and contribute to Group-level technology strategy.</li></ul><h3>Experience</h3><ul><li>10+ years of overall experience in Software Development / Engineering Leadership. You'll be leading experienced Engineering Managers, so this seniority is essential.</li><li>Proven experience managing managers (manager-of-managers model) - must have led at least 2 or more teams through other Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors.</li><li>Hands-on background as a software engineer earlier in your career (even if it was several years ago).</li></ul><h3>Knowledge & Skills</h3><ul><li>Proven experience managing Engineering Managers, with a deep understandin