Engineering Manager

About the Opportunity & Team This role sits within the Ad Experience team, reporting directly to our Engineering Director based in Montpellier, France. This team is responsible for driving the complete lifecycle of a Creative on the Enterprise side of Teads. We build the core tools that bring digital ads to life: Studio: Our flagship WYSIWYG web application designed to craft and animate rich ad experiences. Creative Editor: A guided workflow for building streamlined creatives quickly and intuitively. Ad Delivery & Players: Proprietary in-browser players that seamlessly render ad formats across millions of web pages. Our technology stack is front-end leaning (Angular, React, and pure TypeScript formats), backed by robust Node.js and Scala services. A major strategic priority for the team is expanding our capabilities by building an intelligent AI agent. This agent will empower creators inside and outside of Teads to design high-performing creatives faster through an innovative, AI-based design scoring system. You will manage and support a dedicated, distributed team of 4 frontend/full-stack engineers (3 based locally in Ljubljana and 1 in Montpellier). You will collaborate daily with a dedicated Product Manager based locally in Ljubljana, while the team's overarching technical vision is further supported by 2 Staff Engineers reporting directly to the Engineering Director. We are looking for someone with Frontend or Full-stack experience. About the Role As the Engineering Manager for Ad Experience, your mission is to mentor, support, and empower your engineering team while collaborating closely with product and cross-functional partners to deliver exceptional creative tools. Success in this role means establishing a highly trusting, psychologically safe environment where engineers can thrive, while ensuring the seamless delivery of our AI agent and core creative applications. We know that great leaders come from diverse backgrounds. You do not need to check every single box to be a strong candidate for this role. If you are passionate about building supportive teams and great products, we want to hear from you. Leadership or Distributed Work Experience: Proven experience guiding and supporting software engineers as a manager, team lead, or mentor; OR significant experience as a senior/principal engineer working autonomously in remote/distributed setups with a strong desire to transition into formal management. Technical Comfort: Strong understanding of modern web ecosystems, comfortably navigating across front-end systems (TypeScript, Angular, or React) and backend setups (Node.js, Scala, or similar). Collaborative Communication: Fluent English with strong active listening skills, empathy, and a highly collaborative approach to problem-solving. Location: Right to work in Slovenia (Ljubljana-based hybrid setup). Bonus Experience building or scaling rich web applications, WYSIWYG editors, canvas tools, or complex web ad formats. Exposure to integrating AI/LLM models or intelligent scoring systems into intuitive, user-facing products. Hands-on experience nurturing cross-border collaboration between international engineering hubs (e.g., France and Slovenia). People Development & Team Culture Nurture and support your team members through regular 1:1s, constructive feedback, and highly tailored career growth plans. Foster an inclusive, trusting, and psychologically safe environment where open communication is championed, diverse perspectives are deeply valued, and ownership is shared. Build strong distributed collaboration practices to maintain a seamless, connected community between your team members in Ljubljana and colleagues in Montpellier. Product Delivery & Technical Direction Partner closely with your local Product Manager and UX design to thoughtfully translate product strategies into actionable milestones, balancing new feature development with platform stability. Guide the continuous development of our creative platforms (Studio, Creative Editor) and browser ad players. Champion the rollout of our AI-assisted design agent and real-time scoring system, encouraging a culture of thoughtful experimentation and shared learning. Operational Excellence & Collaboration Facilitate clear alignment across our full-stack ecosystem (Angular, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Scala), drawing on the technical expertise of our Staff Engineers. Remove blockers and refine workflows with empathy, ensuring the team can maintain a healthy, fulfilling, and sustainable pace of execution. Connect your team with cross-functional partners across the wider Teads enterprise organization, ensuring your engineers understand the broader business impact of their work. Meaningful scope & real ownership: your scope is bigger than your title. Guide products that power creative experiences for millions of web users globally. Global exposure and genuinely complex challenges at real scale: 2.2Bn users / month and 18Bn ad opportunities / day. Smart, ambitious peers across 30+ markets in a highly collaborative, cross-border setup. A genuinely human culture: high care alongside high accountability, where your well-being and flexibility matter. Real investment in your growth: mentorship, coaching, courses, workshops, certifications, and management programs. https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/teads1/jobs/4981050101