Area Lead
StockholmFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Senior area lead responsible for running an engineering organization that spans product, platform, and applied AI; hands-on enough to act as Tech Lead when needed; accountable for organization outcomes, culture, and alignment with business goals in a on-site role based in Stockholm.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering. Product, platform, and applied AI under one roof. Own the roadmap and the business outcomes the org is on the hook for.
- Set technical direction across the org: drive design docs and architectural decisions, push back on weak plans, and maintain a high bar for what ships.
- Shape engineering culture: shipping practices, coding standards, hiring, and deployment norms.
- Ship fast: bias toward production, accelerating research, prototypes, and experiments into reality on days/weeks, not quarters.
- Build the operating model for an engineering org where humans and AI agents work side by side.
- Operate as a peer to the executive team: own cross-functional outcomes and translate leadership decisions into engineering work.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of engineering experience, including 6+ years of people management at a pre-IPO startup, scale-up or frontier tech company, and at least 2 years of managing managers. Strong IC track record before management.
- Led an engineering organization of 30+ with managers and senior engineers reporting in. Ability to describe org structure, hiring up to scale, and future plans.
- Hands-on at Tech Lead level: able to work with unfamiliar codebases, design and ship non-trivial changes, run incidents, and review code at a high bar.
- Thoughtful about humans and AI agents on the same team; understanding delegation and productivity metrics in a hybrid-human/AI context.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity at an organizational level; capable of writing cross-team alignment documentation.
Skills
Required:Engineering leadershipTechnical breadth in at least one core areaCross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- On-site role in Stockholm (5 days a week).
- Global and growing teams in multiple cities (Stockholm, London, Boston, New York, San Francisco).
- Join a company recognized by TIME, Forbes AI 50, CNBC Disruptor 50.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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