Specialist recruitment for engineering management roles across the UK, US and Germany.
Engineering management hiring is different from hiring individual contributors. The skills that make someone a great engineer aren't the same skills that make them a great engineering manager, and the interview process, the assessment criteria and the market dynamics all look different at this level. Platform Recruitment's consultants understand this distinction, and we've built a specialist practice around it.
The roles we recruit for
We place engineering managers, senior engineering managers, VPs of engineering, engineering directors, CTOs and heads of engineering into scale-ups and established tech teams. These roles span software engineering, embedded systems, electronics, data and DevOps and we recruit at this level across all of our offices in London, Cambridge, Austin and Munich.
What makes engineering management hiring different
Engineering leaders need to balance technical credibility with people leadership, strategic thinking with execution, and commercial awareness with engineering excellence. Assessing these qualities requires a different interview approach from a standard technical hire. We've written extensively about this. Our guides on what engineering managers actually do, engineering manager interview questions, and engineering manager salaries in the UK are all based on what we see in the market every day.
For candidates considering the move into management
If you're a senior engineer thinking about moving into engineering management, we can help you understand the market, the expectations and the salary landscape. Our guides on how to move from senior engineer to engineering manager and senior engineer vs engineering manager cover the decision in detail.
Get in touch
Whether you're hiring a first-time engineering manager or a VP to lead a 50-person team, we'd love to help. Send us a brief or upload your CV and we'll come back to you within 24 hours.
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