Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering

About the role

NielsenIQ Digital Shelf is looking for a Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering, based in Spain and reporting to the Director of Antibot Engineering. The role leads a distributed team in Western Europe and Algeria and balances retailer unblocking work with long-term R&D projects. It is a senior people-leadership position focused on building the team, setting priorities and driving an R&D roadmap.

Key responsibilities

• Translate the Director's strategy into team objectives, priorities, roadmaps and execution plans.
• Establish a transparent prioritization process and turn business requirements into an executable retailer backlog.
• Partner with business, product, delivery and operations stakeholders to resolve priority conflicts and communicate trade-offs.
• Ensure prioritized retailer work is planned, staffed, tracked and delivered with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Lead, coach and develop engineering managers, technical leads and engineers, and own workforce planning, hiring, onboarding and succession.
• Create operating rhythms for planning, reviews, risk management and communication.
• Own the R&D roadmap, identify opportunities to improve capability, automation, scalability and resilience, and turn experiments into investment recommendations and reusable solutions.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, web data acquisition, applied R&D or a related field.
• 3+ years of people-management experience leading engineers, technical leads, managers or multiple teams.
• Accountability for engineering delivery and production services in a complex, high-change environment.
• Leadership across countries and cultures, and professional fluency in English.

Required skills

• Distributed systems, cloud platforms, automation, observability, incident management and engineering quality practices.
• Preferred: web scraping, reverse engineering, large-scale data collection, antibot solutions, CDN or WAF, and experience leading distributed teams in Europe and/or North Africa.

What we offer

• Flexible working environment.
• Volunteer time off.
• LinkedIn Learning.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).