Strategy & Stakeholders

• Develop a strong understanding of product strategy and market needs, and share it with the teams actively and regularly.
• Contribute to product strategy to maximise value for the business and our customers.
• Ensure each team understands its strategy and how its work connects to it.
• Manage internal and external stakeholder needs and expectations.
• Own change initiatives within engineering, ensuring they are introduced effectively and established sustainably.

Required Experience, Qualities & Skills

Not everyone will have every one of these. If you have many of them, we may be a great place to progress your career.

Technical Background

• Engineering background with knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Experience building products on cloud-native, SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with our stack is useful: AWS, Python, Rust, Django, Postgres, ClickHouse, EC2, CloudFront, Kinesis, Flink, Lambda, Amazon MQ, Terraform, React, and Next.js.
• Experience with modern CI/CD and teams that ship to production frequently.

Leadership & Delivery

• Experience leading multiple teams and building products.
• Ability to lead teams through growth and change.
• Strong delivery focus, concentrated on meeting commitments and delighting customers.
• Excellent people leadership and development skills.
• Ability to solve issues that come up within a team.

Strategy & Communication

• Strategic thinking to maximise value delivered to the business, working with technical and product stakeholders to influence decisions and direction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and persuade.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote-first team and build a cohesive team identity.

Cultural Values We're Looking For

• Builder mindset: Close to the work, even when not acting as an IC.
• Calm under pressure: Good judgment for incidents, ambiguity, and hard conversations.
• Transparency: Open about what’s going well, what isn’t, and why.
• Authenticity: Leads as themselves and builds trust through consistency.
• Psychological safety: Creates teams where people can speak up, take risks, and learn.
• Courage: Willing to have the hard conversations, early and constructively.
• Collaboration: Brings multi-disciplined people together to make things happen.

Growth & Development

You will have enormous scope to learn new skills alongside your colleagues. Your continued professional development matters to us because it matters to you.

You’ll work closely with product and technical stakeholders on strategy, and play a direct part in how our engineering organisation grows. The more powerful you become, the better for all of us.

Benefits, Location & Work Environment

You must be based in Ireland or the United Kingdom and have the right to work independently without requiring sponsorship.

Headlines

• A highly competitive compensation package, including pre-IPO equity.
• Comprehensive private healthcare plans.
• Generous annual leave and flexible working practices to suit your lifestyle.
• A professional development budget for conferences and training.
• Regular (monthly-ish) travel may be required for team meetings.
• Regular (quarterly-ish) travel may also be required for events and customers.

Health and Wellness

We care about the health and wellness of our people and their families. Sustainable pace matters. We offer generous annual leave, health and wellbeing benefits, and flexible family-friendly working policies.

Personal Growth

You will have room to grow alongside strong colleagues. We support professional development through budgets for equipment, training, books, conferences, travel, and certifications.

Facilities

Cloudsmith is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with fully equipped office space for working sessions, planning, meetups, and team activities. We rely on Slack, Google Docs, Linear, and other tools to collaborate across locations.

About Equal Opportunity

Cloudsmith is an equal-opportunity employer, proud to nurture a diverse workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnicities. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind.

The Final Word

We’re looking for someone who can lead people and still speak engineering fluently.

This role is a highly technical leadership role for someone who moved into management without losing their engineering edge. We’re looking for someone who can build healthy teams, raise technical standards, and help strong engineers do their best work.