Senior Engineering Manager | Voice

DeepL is a global AI product and research company focused on building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. Voice for Meetings builds DeepL's real time AI voice technology for professional collaboration. The team works on in call transcription, translation, and voice intelligence, delivered live across the meeting platforms people already use every day. As Senior Engineering Manager for Voice for Meetings, you will lead the engineering team building DeepL's real time AI voice products. This is a hands on leadership role.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and grow a small team of senior engineers, owning hiring, performance, and career development; Drive end to end delivery of real time voice features from architecture through to production, holding a high bar for quality and pace at the same time; Own the technical direction for your team's systems. Stay close enough to the detail to challenge senior engineers credibly and to get into the code yourself when it helps; Work in a tight loop with your Principal Product Manager and senior technical lead, shaping what gets built rather than receiving a finished plan; Operate confidently at the boundary with applied science. Understand how inference, preprocessing, and training data drift affect the product, and translate between model realities and delivery commitments; Make and communicate clear technical trade offs under real constraints, including latency budgets, model quality, and timelines; Spot risks and gaps beyond your own remit and fix them properly, leaving the teams around you better off rather than just unblocking yourself; Build a high agency, low bureaucracy culture where engineers are trusted to make decisions and take genuine ownership of outcomes.

Requirements

You have managed engineers directly and owned a team's delivery, performance, and development. You have hired people, grown them, and handled the difficult conversations as well as the good ones; You are a builder. You are comfortable in the trenches, you have real technical skills, and you have no interest in managing from a distance; You have led teams building product that users touch. Real time systems, streaming, distributed systems at scale, or similar; You have enough credibility to earn the confidence of senior engineers. You can reason about architecture, spot the failure modes, and add judgment to a technical decision rather than only facilitating it; You have a pragmatic working understanding of how ML systems behave in production. Inference, preprocessing, data drift, and what breaks when a model meets real users; You think independently and act without waiting to be asked, and you draw those same instincts out of the people around you; You have strong product and commercial instinct. You frame engineering trade offs in terms of user and business outcomes; You are comfortable when the direction is still forming and priorities compete.

Nice to have

Experience with voice, speech, or audio technology, including ASR, TTS, or real time audio pipelines. A strong plus rather than a requirement, and we are genuinely open to engineering leaders from other technically demanding domains; You have grown into a senior remit inside one organisation rather than moving on each time the title was available; Experience building in a startup or a small product organisation, including something ambitious that did not work out; Experience integrating with third party platform APIs where you do not control the other side; Experience leading a team through a significant architectural change or technical pivot.

Benefits

Diverse and internationally distributed team; Open communication, regular feedback; Hybrid work, flexible hours; Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role; Regular in-person team events; Monthly full-day hacking sessions; 30 days of annual leave; Competitive benefits