Head of Demand Generation (Remote, Portugal)

💙 ABOUT BOUNCE... Bounce is building cloud storage for the physical world, starting with the largest global luggage storage network in existence. Bounce's marketplace connects travelers with 30,000+ small business locations worldwide for hyper-local short-term baggage storage. With more locations globally than Burger King, and more locations in New York City than Starbucks, Bounce has served 3M+ users, stored 10M+ bags, and paid over $10M to small business partners. To achieve this, Bounce is a fast-paced and scrappy team. We believe that experimentation fuels innovation, so we move quickly, testing new ideas and adapting in real time. If you're ready to make an impact in a high-energy, close-knit, and collaborative environment, Bounce is the place where you can move fast, think big, and shape the future of travel. Join us as we make the world a lighter, more accessible place! Bounce has been named the Inc5000's fastest-growing travel company in the USA in 2024 and is proudly backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Sapphire. (Learn more about Bounce's Series B HERE and our Japan expansion HERE). ABOUT THE ROLE… As VP of Engineering, you'll own product delivery and engineering hiring at Bounce as we scale from a 25-person engineering team that ships fast to a 50+ person org that ships even faster. You'll inherit a sharp, senior-loaded team across four engineering managers — and you'll be accountable for what we ship, how fast we ship it, and the people we develop while doing it. You'll partner directly with our CTO. The CTO keeps the wheel on architecture, AI, and technical platform; you'll take ownership of product delivery, the engineering org, hiring, and the partnership with Product and Design. Together you'll set the bar for engineering at Bounce and grow the team for the next chapter of the company. You'll be based in Lisbon, in-office, and report directly to the CTO. WHERE YOU COME IN… * Own product delivery end-to-end — be accountable for shipping the product roadmap on time and at quality. Run the planning, sprint, on-call, and incident-response cadences with autonomy. * Manage through managers — coach our four engineering managers into stronger leaders. Make the hire/level/exit calls. Build a bench so Bounce always has the next layer ready. * Own engineering hiring — personally close the senior hires. Hire ~10-15 strong engineers in year one. Own the engineering brand externally — talks, writing, and the candidate experience. * Be a deep partner to Product and Design — build real working partnerships with our Head of Product and Head of Design. Roadmap, prioritisation, and scope trade-offs are made together. Push back when scope is wrong; absorb it when it isn't. * Be a real exec — the engineering voice on the leadership team. Make trade-offs explicit, communicate up and across, and represent engineering externally. * Partner deeply with our CTO on architecture, AI, and technical platform — you'll work through these decisions together. Bring the product-delivery lens, translate technical bets into engineering execution, surface what product delivery needs from them to ship, and help shape platform direction so it accelerates the team. YOUR PROFILE… * You've led engineering organisations of at least 25 people, ideally through a 25→50 or 50→100 growth phase. This is not the first place you'll do this. * You've been a manager of managers for 3+ years — EMs reporting to you, not just senior ICs. * You have a strong technical foundation. You can review a system design, push back on an architectural decision, and earn trust from your Staff ICs. You haven't been promoted away from the technology. * You've personally recruited and closed senior engineers. You treat hiring as a primary part of the job, not something you delegate. * You're excited about being a deep partner to a hands-on technical CTO. You can build a real working relationship without ego, and you know how to make a CTO better at their job by taking the right things off their plate. * You move fast and treat speed as a feature. You don't bring a 50-page process playbook — you bring judgment. * Marketplace, consumer, and physical-world operations experience is a strong plus. So is having been part of an engineering culture known for shipping (Linear, Ramp, Stripe, Vercel, GitHub, DoorDash, etc.) * You're based in Lisbon or willing to relocate — this is an in-office role.

Location: Portugal (Remote anywhere in Portugal) Department: Engineering Employment Type: Permanent ABOUT YLD: Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects. ABOUT YOU: A YLD Senior Data Engineer is a highly skilled engineer who spans across data engineering and analytics engineering, and knows where the boundaries sit. You've built pipelines and transformation layers. You've inherited messy data projects and made them good. You have opinions about how data teams should work and the humility to adapt them to context. You have a real passion for the craft and are an active learner who gets excited by the variety that consultancy brings: different clients, different stacks, different problems. YOUR DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL LOOK LIKE THIS: * Delivering data work on client engagements: pipelines, transformation layers, models, and the infrastructure around them * Adapting to different client contexts, legacy warehouse migrations, greenfield lakehouses, struggling transformation layers that need rescuing * Defining and evolving our internal standards for data work: testing, documentation, project structure, code review * Mentoring and growing data engineers across the company * Showing up for client team moments (internal speakers, learning sessions, social events) to build strong working relationships. * Contributing to proposals and helping shape engagements during the sales process * Representing YLD externally through writing, speaking, and contributing to the wider data community. YOU’LL HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: * SQL as engineering: You write SQL that's reviewable, testable, and performs at scale. You understand query planning, engine quirks, and how materialisation choices affect cost and performance * Python for data: You write typed, testable Python for pipelines and tooling. You've built and maintained production data systems, not just notebooks * Data modelling: You've made deliberate choices between dimensional, Data Vault, normalised, and denormalised designs. You can explain those trade-offs in terms of flexibility, query performance, and maintainability * Transformation architecture: You design transformations that are idempotent, incremental, and dependency-aware. You think in DAGs, not scripts * Pipeline design: You understand batch, streaming, and micro-batch trade-offs. You consider latency, complexity, cost, and reprocessability. And choose the right approach for the problem * Data testing: You write tests as code, schema contracts, assertions, and transformation logic. You know what to catch at build time vs. defer to observability * Data observability: You treat data reliability like site reliability. Measurable indicators, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis * CI/CD for data: You version, test, and deploy pipelines like software. Environment promotion, rollback strategies, and infrastructure as code for reproducible environments * Data governance: You've implemented lineage, cataloguing, sensitive data classification, or access control. Not just built pipelines, but made them auditable and secure * Cost-conscious: You've optimised warehouse spend, storage strategies, or job efficiency. You treat compute as a resource to manage, not ignore * Platform fluency: You've worked across the modern stack. Orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), ingestion (Fivetran, Airbyte, custom), and transformation (dbt, Spark) * Cross-functional fluency: You translate engineering constraints into business terms and negotiate realistic commitments YOU’LL BE: * Self-motivated and proactive * Comfortable with ambiguity, experimentation, and iteration * Collaborative by default. You work well in teams and across teams * Analytical and detail-oriented in your approach to problems * Comfortable context-switching across clients, stacks, and problem types * Willing to shape engagements, not just deliver them: contributing to proposals, scoping, and client relationships * Active in the wider data community: writing, speaking, or open-source contribution * Genuinely committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion   Benefits you'll get: * Company Private Health care * Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months * Company’s Pension Scheme (UK Only) * 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays) * £2000/€2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences * £300/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware * Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching * Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results) * Company laptop * Generous referral schemes OUR TYPICAL RECRUITMENT PROCESS LOOKS LIKE THIS: * 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30-45 Minutes) * Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (90 Minutes) * Call with the Head of Engineering (60 Minutes) Get a glimpse of what it's like working at YLD! 🤳 Check out our LinkedIn page WE LIVE AND BREATHE OUR VALUES, AND KNOW YOU WILL TOO: * Growing every day * Including everyone * Relationships built on honesty and ethics * Inspiring solutions * Winning together We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.