Director of Enterprise Engineering

At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. No more outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, or frustrating delays - we believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.

We have set out a clear objective to become even more technology led as a company. We are therefore looking for a Director of Enterprise / Organisational Engineering to join Pleo and help us to mature our use of technology to more effectively scale our business. We’re deliberately casting our net wide to see a range of candidates of different backgrounds and seniority levels.

You will lead a centralised team of technologists (from analysts to solutions architects to engineers) covering all the systems that the company uses, from commercial (eg Hubspot, Clay, etc) to people systems (eg HiBob) to finance (eg Netsuite), along with day-to-day technical operations (TechOps) which is our automation-first approach to tech support for employees.

This role reports directly to the CTO (Meri) from a functional perspective (which we call competence), and to the Domain Leader of Platform (Stefan) from an executional perspective.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You will set the Organisational Engineering Strategy for Pleo, supported by the CTO, and partnering with senior leaders across all of Pleo.
• You’ll be responsible for making sure we choose the right technical solutions for our different areas, partnering closely with stakeholders across the business.
• You’ll take us from our current great tech stack to a best-in-class stack in terms of overall cost, rapid growth enablement and process innovation, improving our profitability through efficiency (incl democratization of AI).
• You’ll take a view on our enterprise architecture (with an Enterprise Architect reporting to you), helping to connect our third party solutions to our internal data platform and (where appropriate) our product platform.
• You’ll be the competence leader for “IT” folks spread across the business (and potentially some specialist engineers) who are helping to select, implement and run technical solutions.
• You’ll also lead us through a maturation journey, as we head towards a potential IPO, especially with regards to provisioning, onboarding and offboarding through your TechOps leader.
• You’ll scan the horizon, identifying emerging technologies and evaluating partnerships to drive growth.
• You’ll ensure data security, integrity, and availability while adhering to industry best practices and regulatory requirements, from GDPR to ISO27001, SOC2 to PCI-DSS, and more.
• You will nurture and mature our diverse, equitable, inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belong.

About You

• You are comfortable translating between business needs and technical requirements, and excel at stakeholder management and partnering across the company.
• You know what great looks like for a mid-sized company with big ambitions but some constraints in terms of staffing & costs and are able to translate that into strategy.
• You have some experience of preparing a company for IPO and/or experience of the expectations of a public company.
• You’re adept at balancing trade offs when selecting, procuring, implementing and running technical off-the-shelf solutions.
• You are comfortable taking a mostly “buy”-focused approach, focusing the software engineering capacity of the team on stringing solutions together well and favouring configuration, rather than over-customising.
• You have in-depth knowledge of application infrastructure, technical operations including vendor management, and enterprise architecture.
• You are comfortable in high-pace environments and enjoy complex problem-solving with peers and team.
• You enjoy helping people to achieve their potential (as a people manager).
• It would be advantageous if you had some experience integrating generativeAI tools into workflows and improving efficiency with AI.

Show Me The Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!).
• Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office.
• Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis.
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays.
• For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options.
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice.
• We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously.
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we’re supportive of families and help you feel that you don’t have to compromise your family due to work.

Why join us?

Working at Pleo means you’re working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.

We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.

Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

So, in a nutshell, that’s Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ’d out of Copenhagen means we’re inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don’t work in the office with us, we’ll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.

About Your Application

Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join. We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn’t able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone. We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.

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