Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform
Lead the AI Platform team at GetYourGuide to empower product teams in building and operating AI features independently.
Posted by employer 10 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 2 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Lead hiring and performance management processes
- Manage the team's roadmap and portfolio allocation
- Find solutions to complex technical challenges
- Establish best practices for LLM development
- Build strategic partnerships with stakeholders
Must have
- Strong engineering background in platform engineering, infrastructure, or developer tooling
- Experience in managing technical discussions
- Passionate about building and developing a high-performing engineering team
Nice to have
- Experience building platform infrastructure or developer tooling
- Experience working with LLMs in production environments
- Experience in a startup or high-growth environment
- Experience as a technical product manager/owner
- Track record of successful technical evangelism
Practical constraints
- Three days of in-office collaboration
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
Your team will establish evaluation systems, abstraction layers, and safety guardrails for AI features.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Engineering Manager for the AI Platform at GetYourGuide, the individual will oversee the development and scaling of AI-powered features, ensuring that Mission Teams can deploy production-grade LLM capabilities efficiently. Key skills include a strong engineering background in platform infrastructure and a deep understanding of AI safety mechanisms. This position is ideal for someone with experience in high-growth environments who can balance innovation with reliability while mentoring a team of engineers. The role also emphasizes collaboration with various stakeholders to align technical capabilities with business objectives.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 11, 2026. Last confirmed on GetYourGuide's careers page November 4, 2026.
- AI/ML appears in 11.1% of 45 comparable senior management roles in Germany.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform role remote?
- It's hybrid — GetYourGuide expects some on-site time in Berlin.
- Where is the role based?
- GetYourGuide is hiring for this position in Berlin.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, developer tooling, infrastructure, platform engineering.
- What seniority level is this role?
- GetYourGuide targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform role at GetYourGuide.
From the original posting
Team mission
At the AI Platform team, our mission is to empower Mission Teams across GetYourGuide to build and operate production-grade ML/AI features independently, democratizing AI development while maintaining the product quality our users deserve and expect.
As the Manager of our AI Platform team, you will lead the vision, strategy, and execution to enable and scale AI-powered features across all product areas. You will be responsible for building and evolving the centralized AI infrastructure that makes AI development systematic, trustworthy, and accessible at scale. Your team will establish the evaluation systems, abstraction layers, and safety guardrails that allow Mission Teams to ship AI features with confidence and speed, ensuring GetYourGuide delivers reliable, high-quality AI experiences to travelers worldwide.
Your mission
- Lead all hiring and performance management processes for your Engineering team, helping your engineers reach their full potential in this emerging and rapidly evolving domain.
- Drive high-impact projects and outcomes by managing the team's roadmap and portfolio allocation.
- Find and deliver solutions to complex technical challenges that span across multiple services and business domains, ensuring Mission Teams can build production-grade ML/LLM features with confidence.
- Establish and evangelize best practices for LLM development across Tech.
- Balance rapid innovation with production standards to ensure the platform enables speed without compromising quality, security, or reliability.
- Build strategic partnerships with key stakeholders across product, data science, engineering leadership, and vendor relationships to align platform capabilities with business needs.
Your toolkit
- You have a strong sense of ownership, ensuring technical and product plans are aligned with your stakeholders, your team, and organizational and company goals.
- You approach complex topics with an open mind and a focus on simplicity, particularly when navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
- You bring a strong engineering background in platform engineering, machine learning infrastructure, or developer tooling, enabling you to evaluate complex technical decisions related to abstractions, evaluation systems, and safety mechanisms.
- You actively lead and contribute to technical, design, and product discussions within your team's domain, balancing innovation velocity with production reliability standards.
- You are passionate about building and developing a high-performing engineering team, mentoring, coaching, and empowering engineers to tackle novel challenges in the AI space.
- You excel at evangelism and education, building confidence and capability across technical teams through documentation, workshops, and hands-on collaboration.
Extras that give you an edge
- Experience building platform infrastructure or developer tooling that enables other engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably.
- Experience working with LLMs in production environments, including prompt engineering, evaluation systems, or AI safety mechanisms.
- Experience developing and operating ML algorithms at scale, working with Data Scientists and MLOps engineers.
- Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment, taking projects from zero to one and scaling them across an organization.
- Experience operating as a technical product manager/owner, particularly for internal platform products serving engineering customers.
- Track record of successful technical evangelism and education initiatives that drove adoption and capability-building across engineering organizations.
How we’ll make your career journey extraordinary
- Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
- Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
- A hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time.
- 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…
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