Strategy Manager

Schibsted

Are you an engineering leader who enjoys creating clarity, improving engineering effectiveness, and helping engineers deliver with confidence? Do you care about iOS, Android, and Web capability as much as you care about people leadership? If so, we’d love to hear from you. As a part of our vision to enrich people’s lives through stories, we are strengthening the engineering foundation behind listener and subscriber experience by hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our iOS, Android, and Web engineers. In this role, you will help create the clarity, capability, and delivery conditions behind high-quality user-facing product development. This is a great opportunity to increase your impact at a fast-moving audio company backed by Schibsted Media, and to work with teams that combine quality engineering, product thinking, and care for the listener experience. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Lead, support, and develop a distributed group of iOS, Android, and Web engineers through coaching, feedback, growth planning, and clear role expectations. * Foster an inclusive and accountable environment where employees and consultants across locations have context and support. * Maintain visibility of capability, ownership, staffing needs, consultant dependency, and succession risks across the client-side engineering domain. * Support engineering strategy execution by partnering with product and tech leadership. * Surface technical debt, quality risks, release risks, infrastructure constraints, and operational needs early to enable informed decisions. * Strengthen engineering standards around maintainability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence. * Help teams balance platform-specific excellence with cross-platform alignment where it improves user experience, delivery efficiency, quality, or maintainability. WHAT YOU BRING You combine people leadership with the technical understanding needed to support iOS, Android, Web, and user-facing product trade-offs. You create clarity in complex environments and help teams improve how they work. * Experience leading, coaching, mentoring or developing engineers. * Experience working with distributed or hybrid engineering teams. Previous management experience in this setup is a plus. * Understanding of modern software delivery practices and the quality needs of user-facing products. * Understanding of mobile release processes and the quality assurance needs of mobile releases. * Ability to balance engineering standards with team autonomy. * Ability to explain engineering trade-offs, risks, and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Clear communication and relationship-building skills. * Cost-conscious approach to staffing, tooling, infrastructure, and technical decisions. * Professional-level English communication skills. Swedish is beneficial. BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE * Experience leading mixed teams of employees and consultants. * Experience working with iOS, Android, Web, frontend, mobile release processes, web conversion flows, playback or listening experiences, experimentation, design systems, accessibility, or app-store release cycles. * Experience with subscription, media, audio, video, consumer products, or multi-market organisations. * Experience improving release confidence, production quality signals, test strategy, analytics instrumentation, frontend performance, or developer experience. * Experience supporting AI-assisted engineering, experimentation capability, or engineering productivity improvements. WHY JOIN PODME? At Podme, we believe in the power of audio stories to inform, entertain, and inspire. Backed by Schibsted, one of the Nordics’ leading media groups, we’re on a mission to deliver the best of podcasting and audiobooks to listeners across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. * Join a growing platform with a loyal and expanding user base. * Lead the iOS, Android, and Web engineering competence domain behind the product surfaces where listeners and subscribers experience Podme most directly. * Work closely with product, technology, and business stakeholders on problems that affect core listener and subscriber journeys. * Hybrid setup based in Krakow, with collaboration across Poland, Sweden, and Bosnia * Travel to Krakow occasionally, approximately 1-2 times per year * Great benefits through Schibsted and Podme * Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks Help us build the engineering foundation behind the Nordic audio experience. Your next great challenge starts here. Apply now and let’s build something great together. Please note that due to the summer vacation period, we will start reviewing applications and contacting candidates from the beginning of August. Thank you for your patience. ABOUT PODME Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021. Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives. We’re a friendly and passionate team of +80 people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen the engineering foundation needed to support product complexity, reliability, and sustainable delivery.

Lunar

Banking hasn't changed much in decades. We're changing that. One product at a time. Lunar is a Nordic challenger bank building the future of financial life with AI at the core. Our engineers, designers, and product people work on problems that actually matter. Making money simpler, smarter, and more rewarding for a million of registered users across the Nordics. Fully licensed and founded in 2015, with offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Stockholm. We move fast, we build with purpose, and we're just getting started. As our new Engineering Manager you'll join an engineering team based in Stockholm, working to keep the systems that power Lunar's banking products reliable, scalable, and ahead of what's next. What will you do? * Lead 1-2 cross-functional engineering teams — setting direction, removing blockers, and creating the conditions where engineers can do their best work. * Drive technical strategy for core banking infrastructure, translating where the industry is heading into concrete decisions about how we build and ship. * Partner with Product and other business teams to connect technical priorities directly to what matters for customers. * Own engineering quality end-to-end — from development practices to deployment — and raise the bar on how we build reliable, scalable systems. * Shape how AI becomes a consistent part of how your teams work, moving from ad-hoc experimentation to embedded, high-impact practice. What are we looking for in you? * 2-3 years of experience leading engineering teams, with a track record of enabling strong individual contributors and technical leads to shape direction — creating space for others to do their best thinking, not directing from above. * Solid infrastructure expertise — you understand how systems are built, hosted, and scaled, and you've worked through the architectural trade-offs that come with it. * Experience with hosting cost optimisation and the decisions that drive infrastructure spend up or down. * A working understanding of how data and AI intersect in a modern engineering org, and what it takes to build teams that use AI tools effectively. * Comfortable setting direction when the landscape is shifting, and able to bring your team along. What you get * 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home. We're a team that builds together, thinks together, and moves together. Showing up is part of how we work. * State of the art equipment. The newest computer, monitor, mouse, and keyboard. We want you to do your best work without anything slowing you down. * Pension, health insurance, and enhanced parental leave. From your financial future to your family moments. We've got you covered. Are you ready to join the journey? Apply now and let's find out more! While you hold on tight for us to get back to you, curious to see what we’re up to? Follow us on LinkedIn for business announcements and releases 📢, check out our Instagram for an inside scoop on what it’s like to work here . Depending on the regulations in the country where you will be employed, we will ask to see or obtain information about your criminal record. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know

Schibsted

ARE YOU A PRODUCT DESIGNER SHAPING BEST-IN-CLASS PODCAST EXPERIENCES? What if your design work didn’t just improve interfaces, but changed how people build habits and keep coming back? At Podme, success isn’t measured by what we ship. It’s measured by whether people return, build habits, and stay. That means design isn’t just about screens it’s about helping users succeed in ways that drive real business outcomes. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer (UX) who wants to design at that level of impact. ABOUT THE ROLE This is not a role for someone who polishes interfaces after decisions are already made. This is a role for someone who helps shape what gets built, by understanding user behavior, identifying the right problems, and designing experiences that create meaningful outcomes for both listeners and the business. At Podme, great design helps people discover content they love, continue listening effortlessly, and build habits around premium podcasts and audio experiences. WHAT YOU’LL DO As a Senior Product Designer (UX), you will: * Design intuitive and delightful mobile experiences across iOS and Android * Create seamless listening and viewing experiences around premium podcasts * Frame product opportunities through user behavior, motivation, and outcomes * Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Analysts, and stakeholders across the company * Use research, experimentation, and data to validate decisions and improve experiences continuously * Help shape product direction, not just interface execution YOU’LL BE ESPECIALLY FOCUSED ON Designing for habits and continuation You’ll design experiences that: * Reduce friction and cognitive load * Help users discover content they genuinely care about * Make continuation feel effortless across moments and devices * Create clear and coherent journeys across listening and discovery * Make Podme feel like a natural part of everyday routines Framing the right problems You’ll: * Use research and behavioral data to identify where the experience breaks down * Collaborate with stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand opportunities and constraints * Turn insights into clear product direction, hypotheses, and design principles * Focus on user outcomes before interface solutions Driving continuous discovery and learning You’ll: * Participate actively in research and insight work * Prototype and validate ideas early * Run research experiments and iterate based on real behavior, not assumptions * Help teams learn faster and make better product decisions Designing for clarity, trust, and premium experiences You’ll help create experiences where: * Navigation and continuation feel effortless * Users feel confident in their choices * The value of premium content is consistently clear * Audio and video experiences feel seamless across contexts and devices Working as a true product partner You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers to: * Identify friction and opportunities * Prioritize the most meaningful problems * Validate outcomes through experiments and behavioral metrics * Ensure experiences are scalable, feasible, and impactful Together, you share accountability for user outcomes, not just delivery. Contributing to a stronger design culture You’ll: * Raise the bar for UX thinking, systems design, and product craft * Help evolve how we design adaptive and AI-supported experiences * Contribute to a culture where design drives measurable impact, not just output This position will report to the UX Manager at Podme. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE * Your work leads to measurable improvements in how people experience Podme * Teams focus on solving the right problems, not just shipping more features * User needs and trade-offs become clearer, helping teams make better decisions faster * You turn research and behavioral insights into clear product direction * The experiences you design consistently increase repeat listening and habit formation * You become a trusted partner in shaping product strategy and experience direction * You help strengthen a product culture where design is deeply connected to business impact WHO YOU ARE * You have strong experience in product design for mobile products (iOS and Android) * You think in systems, flows, and user journeys, not just individual screens * You are comfortable working with ambiguity and helping shape direction * You use research and data to inform and challenge decisions * You collaborate naturally across disciplines and involve stakeholders early * You care deeply about user outcomes, product quality, and business impact BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE * Experience with audio, video, or subscription products * Experience designing recommendation or discovery experiences * Experience working with AI-driven or adaptive systems * Strong understanding of behavioral metrics and retention WHO WE ARE Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021. Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives. We’re a friendly and passionate team of +80 people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen (example: the data-driven excellence in our company.