Director of Engineering - Content

At Storytel, we believe that powerful stories add an extra dimension to life.

Storytel is one of the world’s leading audiobook and ebook streaming services, and we offer unlimited listening to consumers in 20+ markets.

Our vision is to make the world a more empathetic place with great stories to be shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Content is at the heart of Storytel. The content mission is to exceed customers' expectations with exclusive and non-exclusive content to drive intake and retention.

To match our aspirations in this area, we are recruiting a Director of Engineering to help lead and evolve this core pillar of Storytel.

About the role:

The primary focus of the role is to lead and execute the mission and goals of the content area; representing a solid leadership, perspective, and voice in an area that increasingly is driven by tech and data and that spans the following responsibilities::

• Content acquisition

• Content strategy

• Maximizing the value of content investments

• Publishing/Production (workflows and tooling)

• Catalog management

• Publishing partner relations

• Royalty reporting & Payments

• Content catalog

Storytel’s core value proposition is excellent content packaged in a fantastic product experience that makes it easy to find the next book and experience it.

The area ensures that Storytel has a complete, available, and enriched catalog of audiobooks and ebooks while providing a healthy financial eco-system where publishers and authors get paid with transparency and speed.

The range for tech in content spans from automating the ingestion, quality-control, and enrichment of the Storytel catalog to enabling product teams and partners to build fantastic content-driven product experiences via APIs and event streams. It goes from supporting complex royalty calculations and payouts to bringing more transparency and better tools to publishers and authors to understand the performance of their content and its monetization.

Join us and have front-row seats in scaling Storytel to support the growth of a premiere content product at the forefront of storytelling!

What you will do:

• Lead engineering in the area and be influential in shaping the vision for how Storytel works with content and how millions of subscribers experience audiobooks and storytelling.

• Contribute to broad, area-wide business decisions, processes, operational excellence and strategies. Be accountable for the technical vision and long-term technology strategy for the area.

• Work with engineers, content experts, product and product design to maintain and advance our content tooling.

• Recruit, hire, scale, and develop teams of world-class engineers and engineering managers.

• Create and grow the next generation of leadership at Storytel.

What you bring along:

• Ideally, but not essential, you bring experience from content tech environments, intimately familiar with the role of content and its underlying tech from global streaming companies.

• A track record of running highly effective teams in scale-ups or more mature tech/product companies with an ability to lead both managers and engineers.

• A passion for operational excellence, the resiliency of services, and quality of what your team's ship.

• Previous experience as a hands-on software engineer and strength in computer science fundamentals to understand the engineering work that is going on in your teams.

• Team-centric mindset. You see the area as a team of teams. You learn and grow together.

• A passion for customers and how one can continuously improve the environment and processes in order to exceed their expectations.

• A curious and humble approach to leadership and a genuine interest in the success and growth of the people you work with.

• Ability to lead with strategy, clear objectives, and goals.

What we offer:

• A long term equity-based incentive program

• Plenty of autonomy and responsibility

• A workplace that values creativity and personal initiative

• An international team of super-talented colleagues

• Limitless audio and ebooks from our own service

• Explore, work and implement some of the newest and hottest technologies

• A company full of book lovers

• Flexible flexible hybrid working solution & working hours

Does this sound like you? If you feel like Storytel is a place where you could thrive, let us know and we will contact you as soon as possible.