Engineering Manager, Paid Search

Change the way the world travels

Be part of the GetYourGuide journey and connect people with unforgettable travel experiences worldwide. Since 2009, millions of travelers have booked unique activities with us in over 12,000 cities. Our headquarters in Berlin is supported by 16 other local offices across the globe. 

Ready to join a diverse community of over 850 fellow explorers dedicated to revolutionizing the travel experience industry? Check out our careers site to learn more.

Team mission

The team's mission is to launch products that help travelers discover activities they love through paid search, powered by data-driven solutions and marketing automation.

Your mission:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to guide people, drive technical decisions, and help develop our Paid Search growth area and related customer channels.

This role reports to the Director of Engineering for Growth and is primarily measured according to the performance of their team. We divide their responsibility into the following areas:

• Be responsible for all hiring and performance management topics on the Engineering side helping your engineers reach their full potential
• Partner closely with your engineering stakeholders to manage the roadmap and portfolio allocation to drive impactful projects.
• Find pragmatic solutions to complex technical challenges that span across multiple services and domains of our marketplace and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in the broader business on initiatives.

You will assume line management of engineers owning:

• Account structure generation to manage an account with 100M+ keywords and ads (Scala/Spark/Airflow)
• Ad optimization data pipelines that leverage 500TB+ of performance data + AI to create the most relevant ad content (text, images, videos) to engage users with our inventory (Scala/Spark/Airflow)
• Marketing tools for bid & performance management of our Paid Search campaigns )
• Marketing A/B testing self-service tool using causal impact analysis for marketing channel based experiments (Scala/Spark/Databricks)

Your toolkit:

• Experience with people management in technical teams
• Experience with technical excellence (operations, on-call, quality)
• Passionate about business results and people not just technical excellence
• Software development experience comparable to Senior Engineer with Scala / Java stack
• Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision-making
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

What sets you apart:

• Experience with large scale data processing using Apache Spark & Airflow
• Prior experience working on marketing technology and Google Ads
• Prior experience working in a consumer growth team

We want your journey with us to be extraordinary

Here's how you can expect us to commit to you and your growth.

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
• Work from anywhere in the world for 40 days per year
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits

And more…

How to apply

Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out 'how we hire' and 'life at GetYourGuide'. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch at

We're an equal opportunities employer

Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application. 

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