Head of Engineering, Corporate Services

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

As Head of Engineering, Corporate Services, you will be responsible for defining and executing the BlaBlaCar’s Tech strategy around internal tooling and services, ensuring it aligns with our overall business objectives.

You will lead a team of 25+ Tech professionals organized into several teams (IT Ops, CRM, ERP, back-office, Program Managers), overseeing everything from the identification of needs and sourcing of new solutions to managing implementation projects and organizing run activities.

You’re leading the effort on smoothening the daily life and operations of all BlaBlaCar employees so that they can achieve their mission with efficiency, productivity and comfort. This will require a blend of deep technical understanding, leadership skills, and a strategic mindset.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of managers and individual contributors
• Foster a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration within the department
• Define and articulate the long-term vision and strategy for our Corporate Services organization, ensuring alignment with company goals and anticipating future needs
• Partner closely with business leaders, product teams, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand their tooling needs, and deliver impactful solutions across the organization
• Manage critical supplier relationships from large RFP processes to day to day relationship
• Structure and set up large integration projects involving external solution integration and/or in house development
• Build a transversal vision and strategy of our internal tooling and SaaS vendors landscape : connect the right dots, build strategy to foster company efficiently by leveraging the Corporate Services stack and set of services
• Embody and promote BlaBlaCar values across the teams
• Take ownership of engineering policy, guidelines, and associated ways of working.

Your qualifications

• Strong and successful managerial track record, including managing managers
• At scale leadership and communication skills (written and oral)
• Experience in managing company-wide SaaS contracts and solutions ; experiences with Salesforce Service Cloud and Workday are a plus
• Business acumen & Customer Centricity having an ability to be a creative and reliable product and business partner
• Problem-solving skills and a track record of achieving results in complex ecosystems
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
• Aligned with our company culture
• English is mandatory, french is a plus

Interested in joining the ride?

• A 45-min video-call with your Talent Acquisition Manager Elodie, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions. You’ll receive a case study as a basis for questions during the interviews
• a 60-min video-call with our CTO Nicolas Salvy based on the case study
• a 60-min video-call with Sébastien Labat and Emmanuel Turounet or Laura Garde based on the case study
• a 45-min video-call with Oleksii Nikulin and Aurélien Beltrame to explore team management and technical expertise
• a 60-min video-call with our CTO Nicolas Salvy for vision fit and rounding off the process.

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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