Engineering Manager - Core Experience (Nordics Market)

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.

Are you a strategic thinker driven by developing and establishing long-term business relationships? Do you excel at finding new ways to strengthen both individual business opportunities and a company’s overall business development? If so, Axentia offers you the chance to enhance your skills while pursuing strategic business development in a successful and global company. About the Role In this role, you will work with customers and partners, both operationally and strategically. The primary markets are currently in the Nordic region with the potential to expand into additional markets over time. Your primary mission will be to establish and develop relationships and with both new and existing customers and strategic partners to secure Axentia’s long-term business. You will focus on the customer, the product, and the market in a sector driven by sustainability and environmental improvement. Key Responsibilities Establish and develop relationships with new and existing customers and strategic partners. Plan market activities and set targets to achieve. Travel abroad to visit customers, establish partnerships, and represent the company at exhibitions. Contribute with drive and heart, balancing freedom with responsibility. You will join a high-performing sales team with extensive industry experience, supported by Project Managers, Bid Managers, Product Specialists, and Marketing. What We Are Looking For We are looking for a candidate with a university degree, preferably a Master of Science in Engineering or a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. Extensive knowledge and experience in sales and strategic business development. A strong interest in establishing new partnerships and maintaining long-term customer relationships. Experience with sales and products of a technical nature is a plus. You are fluent in English and knowledge of additional languages is highly valuable for this position. Also, as you will be based at our Swedish office and work in our internal systems, we would prefer that you are proficient in Swedish. A humble, flexible, and self-motivated personality. A passion for building new relationships and continuous improvement alongside colleagues. Work Setup The position is based in Linköping, and you are expected to travel a few days per month. As the role involves a lot of teamwork, we would prefer that you are in the office at least three days per week. Why Join Us? At Axentia, we are proud of our team and our products, and we want you to be proud too! Here, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills, work in a dynamic and supportive environment, and contribute to a company committed to sustainability and a better environment. You will join a fast-expanding company with technically advanced, highly refined products. We offer you the opportunity to play a key role in scaling the company further and contributing directly to its continued expansion and success. Axentia thrives on innovation, collaboration, and close customer relationships, where product development is driven by creativity and strong teams. Sustainability is a core focus, with solutions designed to promote public transport through environmentally friendly, battery- and solar-powered systems. Axentia offers a dynamic and supportive work environment with short decision paths and a high pace of innovation, while also valuing professional growth and continuous development. Overall, Axentia emphasizes responsibility, safety, and contributing to a more sustainable society. Apply Now  Apply now to become a part of our journey and make a significant impact on our business and the world! You are welcome to submit your application no later than 16 August. Axentia is partnering with AS&B Executive in this recruitment process. For further information about the position, please contact our recruitment consultant Emelie Törnvall at emelie.tornvall@asb-executive.se About Axentia Axentia is a Swedish technology company headquartered in Linköping that develops real-time information systems for public transport – from software to hardware, all in-house. With innovative and energy-efficient solutions, we contribute to smarter and more sustainable cities worldwide. At Axentia, you work in a technology-driven environment characterized by humility, entrepreneurship, and creativity, where you have the opportunity to grow, influence, and contribute to solutions used by people every day.