Engineering Director

OUR MISSION At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved. We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility. The opportunity is massive. Every enterprise on the planet has this problem and nobody has solved it. We’ve 10x’d ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup https://sifted.eu/leaderboards/sifted-future-50-2025 in Europe & the Sunday Times' #1 Best Medium Sized Tech Company To Work for. Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who’ve grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You’ll work alongside leaders like Ben https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-freeman-a8542166/, Abs https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhirukt/, Sabrina https://www.linkedin.com/in/scastiglione/, and Rebe https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecatristan/. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE TEAM AND LIFE AT OMNEA HERE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpjeHyocsu3ZoDn3sfODjqIR2L_DW3dgb. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We're looking for an ambitious and talented Director of Engineering to join Omnea, the UK's #1 Startup in 2026 https://startups.co.uk/startups-100/2026/omnea/, as a senior member of our Engineering leadership team. You'll report directly to our CTO, Dhruv Kumar https://www.linkedin.com/in/dk418, who joined us from Voy and has scaled engineering organizations at Hopin, Charlotte Tilbury, and THG.   This is a manager-of-managers role. You'll lead a group of Engineering Managers and Team Leads: 25-50 engineers across several teams. You'll own the outcomes, org design, and technical direction of a significant slice of the product.   As we grow from tens to hundreds of enterprise customers and through 10x revenue growth in the next 2-3 years, you'll play a crucial role in building the best Engineering function in its category. You'll operate with high autonomy, partnering with the CTO, Product leadership, and your peers across R&D to turn strategy into shipped software.   WHAT YOU’LL DO Build and lead the leaders: - Hire, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and Team Leads. Your primary output is their effectiveness, not your own. - Set and hold a high performance bar across the group, including the harder calls on performance and leveling. - Own org design for your area: how teams are shaped, sized, and split as the product and company grow. - Build the bench: identify and grow the next generation of engineering leaders at Omnea. - Own the headcount plan for your group, from business case through to hiring.   Own delivery at group scale: - Be accountable for the outcomes of several teams at once, not the output of any one of them. - Create the operating rhythm (planning, prioritization, and reporting) that keeps a multi-team group moving quickly and predictably. - Unblock at the seams: the cross-team dependencies, ambiguous ownership, and architectural decisions that no single team can resolve. - Ensure robust monitoring, observability, and incident response across your area.   Shape technical and product strategy: - Partner with the CTO and Product leadership to define and execute the technical roadmap for your domain. - Make the build/buy, architecture, and technical investment calls that shape the platform for years, and bring the rest of R&D with you. - Balance technical debt, feature development, and reliability, and be able to defend those trade-offs to the exec team. - Ensure customer feedback drives technical priorities, including direct time with enterprise customers.   Teams and products you might end up working on: - Accounting and Goods Receipting – ensuring procurement and finance teams have the right information and tools to operate accurately, automatically, and at scale. - Insights and Reporting – deep, complex custom visualizations bringing together AI and data to surface meaningful insights and context across the platform. - Sourcing – building the tools that find the right suppliers, shape the right deals, and make sure the best option is already in play before a request is even created. - Workflow Orchestration – the configurable backbone of our systems that accurately model company operations, underpinning a single source of truth. - And many more areas we’re actively starting or expanding upon!