Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering

The Role 

The Senior Manager, Antibot Engineering takes leadership responsibility for a defined part of the Antibot Engineering organization. Based in Spain and reporting to the Director of Antibot Engineering, this leader manages a distributed team located in Western Europe and Algeria. The geographic footprint describes where the team is located, not a regional mandate: the role contributes to the global Antibot Engineering mission and priorities. 

This is a senior people-leadership role with three core accountabilities: building and developing a strong engineering team; prioritizing retailer work in line with business requirements; and driving an R&D; roadmap that improves the effectiveness, durability, and scalability of Antibot capabilities. The leader works across Web Data Acquisition, Product, Engineering, Operations, and business stakeholders to turn demand into clear engineering choices and measurable outcomes. 

What You Will Do 

Lead part of the global Antibot Engineering organization 

• Own the people, delivery, and technical outcomes of an assigned part of the global Antibot Engineering organization. 
• Translate the Director of Antibot Engineering’s strategy into clear team objectives, priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans. 
• Balance retailer unblocking and long-term R&D; projects. 
• Provide clear visibility into retailer priorities, R&D; progress, capacity, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs. 
Drive retailer prioritization and engineering execution 

• Establish a transparent prioritization process that converts business requirements, customer impact, operational risk, and technical dependencies into an executable retailer backlog. 
• Partner with business, product, delivery, and operations stakeholders to clarify demand, challenge assumptions, resolve priority conflicts, and communicate trade-offs. 
• Ensure prioritized retailer unblocking work is planned, staffed, tracked, and delivered with clear ownership and measurable outcomes. 
• Balance urgent retailer needs with platform development, solution durability, technical debt, and longer-term engineering capacity. 
Lead, develop, and retain the team 

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leads, and engineers across the distributed team in Western Europe and Algeria. 
• Set clear expectations, strengthen accountability, and create an inclusive environment that supports learning, collaboration, and retention. 
• Own team workforce and capability planning, including hiring, onboarding, succession, and development of critical Antibot expertise. 
• Create effective operating rhythms for planning, reviews, risk management, and communication. 
Drive the Antibot R&D; roadmap 

• Own and drive an R&D; roadmap for the assigned Antibot scope, aligned with the technical direction set by the Director of Antibot Engineering. 
• Identify research and engineering opportunities that improve capability, automation, scalability, maintainability, and resilience. 
• Turn experiments and technical learning into clear investment recommendations, reusable solutions, and production adoption plans.

Function: General Business
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level