Senior Engineering Manager

Vestiaire Collective is the leading global online marketplace for desirable pre-loved fashion. Our mission is to transform the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by empowering our community to promote the circular fashion movement. Vestiaire was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Paris with offices in London, Berlin, New York, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh, and warehouses in Tourcoing (France), Crawley (UK), Hong Kong and New York. We currently have a diverse global team of 600 employees representing more than 50 nationalities. Our values are Activism, Transparency, Dedication and Greatness and Collective. ### **The role** Vestiaire Collective is looking for a Berlin-based Senior **Engineering Manager** to lead our cross-hub **Discovery team** across Berlin and Paris. The Discovery team plays a critical role in how buyers explore, discover and engage with our catalog. The team owns key user-facing surfaces such as search, browsing, merchandising exposure, and content-driven discovery, with the objective of helping buyers find the right items at the right time while balancing business, operational and brand considerations. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a comprehensive, cross-functional squad encompassing frontend, backend, machine learning, and data science to execute the Discovery roadmap end-to-end. You will work closely with Product, Design, Marketing, Merchandising and Data to deliver impactful features that improve user engagement, performance and scalability. Because our Discovery experience is heavily driven by search ranking and personalization algorithms, your squad will also actively integrate and rely on solutions built by our Data Scientists. Reporting to the Director of Data Science and Engineering, you will combine **people leadership, delivery ownership and technical contribution**, while growing a strong, autonomous and product-oriented engineering team. ### **What you’ll do** * Lead the end-to-end execution of the technical roadmap, delivering high-quality, scalable Discovery features. * Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Marketing, Merchandising, CRM, Data) to align business priorities, user value, and technical feasibility, effectively balancing a global and local portfolio. * Drive the overarching Discovery Strategy, a key investment pillar for 2027, by partnering directly with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. You will operate in a high-visibility, milestone-driven environment to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery. * Act as the technical bridge between software engineering and machine learning, leveraging your cross-functional domain expertise across disciplines to build upon the multi-stage composable search stack * Manage and mentor a unified squad of 9 members across software engineering and data science. You will drive their professional growth through tailored coaching, impactful 1:1s, and clear career development plans, ensuring every specialist fe