Senior Engineering Manager | Voice

Join DeepL as a Senior Engineering Manager leading AI voice technology. Drive innovation and influence product direction in a collaborative environment.

• Lead, develop, and grow a small team of senior engineers, owning hiring, performance, and career development.
• Drive end to end delivery of real time voice features from architecture through to production, holding a high bar for quality and pace at the same time.
• Own the technical direction for your team's systems. Stay close enough to the detail to challenge senior engineers credibly and to get into the code yourself when it helps.
• Work in a tight loop with your Principal Product Manager and senior technical lead, shaping what gets built rather than receiving a finished plan.
• Operate confidently at the boundary with applied science. Understand how inference, preprocessing, and training data drift affect the product, and translate between model realities and delivery commitments.
• Make and communicate clear technical trade offs under real constraints, including latency budgets, model quality, and timelines.
• Spot risks and gaps beyond your own remit and fix them properly, leaving the teams around you better off rather than just unblocking yourself.
• Build a high agency, low bureaucracy culture where engineers are trusted to make decisions and take genuine ownership of outcomes.

• Experience with voice, speech, or audio technology, including ASR, TTS, or real time audio pipelines. A strong plus rather than a requirement, and we are genuinely open to engineering leaders from other technically demanding domains.
• You have grown into a senior remit inside one organisation rather than moving on each time the title was available.
• Experience building in a startup or a small product organisation, including something ambitious that did not work out.
• Experience integrating with third party platform APIs where you do not control the other side.
• Experience leading a team through a significant architectural change or technical pivot.

• Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities. We're more than just colleagues; we're a group of professionals with a shared mission to connect diverse cultures. Our global presence is growing–we've doubled in size nearly every year, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network.
• Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication. We value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and growth mindset makes us better together.
• Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week. This allows you to engage directly with your team and experience the unique energy of our workspace, while still enjoying the flexibility and comfort of working from home. With flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, we are in sync with your team’s general locations and time zones to foster effective and seamless collaboration.
• Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role. We believe everyone should share in our success, and that’s why every employee receives Virtual Shares, linking your contribution directly to DeepL’s growth and rewarding you with a stake in our future.
• Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team, from local team and business unit gatherings, to new-joiner onboardings, to company-wide events that bring us all together–literally.
• Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can spend your time diving into a project you're passionate about and get the opportunity to work with other teams–we value your initiatives, impact, and creativity.
• 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources, we make sure you're as strong mentally as you are professionally.
• Competitive benefits: just as our team spans the globe, so does our benefits package. We've crafted it to reflect the diversity of our team and tailored it to align with your unique location, to ensure you feel supported every step of the way.