Senior Engineering Manager - Media

About us We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. Great journeys start with Trainline  Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and 6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries.

We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Train liners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.

Introducing Senior Engineering Manager
- Media at Trainline We’re searching for a Senior Engineering Manager within the New Business pillar, leading our Media teams across Ads, Perks, and Sponsored Search. This role sits at the heart of our non-fee revenue strategy with a mission to optimise and grow revenue in ways that enhance - not compromise - the user experience. Our ambition is to ensure media placements feel native, contextually relevant, and thoughtfully targeted, delivering value to both customers and partners.

We operate in highly cross-functional squads across Engineering, Product, DSA, Design, and Commercial where collaboration and experimentation are central to how we build. We’re looking for a leader who can drive technical excellence, empower teams, and balance commercial impact with customer-first thinking.

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Trainline, you will... Lead multiple teams and their Engineering Managers, supporting them in career development through coaching and performance management

Own end-to-end delivery for your teams, ensuring projects are planned, executed, and delivered in a timely and high-quality manner

Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science and business stakeholders to align technical delivery to business outcomes. Use domain expertise to guide teams toward high-impact opportunities.

Support technical direction and architecture without being deeply hands-on with code. Drive alignment in cross-team dependencies and ensure clarity on technical prioritisation, system interactions, and data flows between systems.

Champion engineering best practices across teams, promoting quality and fostering a culture of technical innovation

Drive operational excellence, ensuring that all teams under your leadership have robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes

We’d love to hear from you if you... Have proven experience leading engineering teams and successfully delivering complex, multi-team initiatives

Have a strong record of developing people, building high-performing engineering teams, and growing future leaders

Can inspire trust and autonomy at all levels, building a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture

Thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and highly cross-functional environment

Possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and can influence at all levels of the organization

Lead confidently through ambiguity, creating clarity and momentum in complex or uncertain situations

Have a passion for driving technical and operational excellence

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Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Train liners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

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