Head of Engineering

Job Description

Description

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Head of Engineering to join our third-stage rocket ship!

You will own engineering operations end to end, from people leadership and performance to compliance and cost discipline. You will empower Engineering Managers, create clarity across teams, and build the conditions for consistent high performance teams.

Based in our headquarters in Brussels, you will directly lead 5 Engineering Managers and shape the best work environment for 45 engineers. Reports to the CTO.

Location: Brussels, on a hybrid basis.

Key Responsibilities

1. People Leadership

You will be accountable for the performance, development, and wellbeing in the workplace of our engineers through its Engineering Managers.

• Directly manage and coach 5 Engineering Managers.

• Establish clear standards for leadership, execution, and accountability across teams

• Collaborate closely with HR and own hiring processes, performance management cycles, and organizational design

• Monitor team health, retention, engagement, and delivery predictability

• Act as escalation point for cross-team operational and interpersonal issues

• Create an environment where managers and engineers can consistently do their best work

2. AI Enablement & Operational Innovation

In coordination with the CTO, you will proactively contribute to identify opportunities where AI can improve workflows, remove friction, and increase leverage across teams. Making you the primary executor of this strategy.

• Listen closely to developers to identify adoption barriers, and opportunities around AI tooling, translate these field insights to actionable ones.

• Execute on AI adoption initiatives as discussed with the CTO.

• Ensure AI tool rollouts follow established security and compliance guardrails.

• Surface ideas for process improvements enabled by AI.

• Actively propose operational use cases that increase team efficiency.

3. Security & Compliance (ISO 27001)

You will act as the Security Officer for the organizational, people, and physical dimensions of ISO 27001. You will collaborate with the CTO, who has ownership of technical security controls, and potentially with external consultants who can be available to support.

• Own and maintain the operational side of the Information Security Management System.

• Drive audit readiness and coordinate internal and external audits.

• Manage organizational controls: policies, access reviews, risk registers, and supplier assessments.

• Ensure people controls: security awareness training, HR security processes, onboarding/offboarding security.

• Coordinate incident response processes and post-mortems.

• Maintain disaster recovery and business continuity documentation and practices.

4. Cost & Tooling Governance

• Own visibility and monitoring of engineering costs across cloud, infrastructure, and tooling.

• Establish cost accountability practices and identify optimization opportunities.

• Rationalize and standardize developer tooling to reduce sprawl and overhead.

• Support vendor negotiations in collaboration with Finance.

5. Process & Operational Excellence

• Continuously improve development and delivery processes to remove friction and bottlenecks.

• Standardize onboarding, offboarding, and access workflows.

• Ensure our operational structures evolve with the company growth.

• Bring discipline and predictability to how engineering operates daily.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Fluent in English.

• 8–12 years of experience, including 5-6 years in leadership roles (management).

• Proven experience managing Engineering Managers

• Background in SaaS or scale-up environments, ideally 30 to 100 engineers

• Exposure to compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 (deep security expertise is not needed).

• Familiarity overseeing infrastructure or tooling budgets

Competencies

• People-first leadership: builds trust, develops managers, and creates clarity.

• Strategic mindset with the ability to align engineering efforts to business goals.

• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment.

• Strong operational and systems thinking.

• Financial literacy and cost awareness.

• Structured, disciplined, and process-oriented without being bureaucratic.

• Comfortable addressing conflict, giving direct feedback, and enforcing accountability.

• Technically credible, without needing to own architecture or technical direction.

• Pragmatic, low-ego, collaborative.

Please note: You must be based in Belgium and hold a valid EU visa/work permit to be eligible for this role.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive and optimized salary package.

• 12 RTT days per year, on top of regular holidays.

• Flexibility in your work, with opportunities to learn and express your creativity.

• A diverse team within a flat hierarchy: altogether we speak more than 15 languages!

• Connect with colleagues during quarterly team-building events and a yearly company-wide retreat.

• And yes, we’re serious about food: get ready to swap recipes and enjoy delicious moments with the team! 🍴

Who are we?

AppTweak is the trusted App Store Marketing & Intelligence Platform for mobile leaders worldwide; we provide innovative solutions that help apps and games optimize their App Store presence and increase downloads. For 10+ years, companies including Uber, Adobe, and Zynga have trusted our unique metrics, actionable insights, and expertise to make informed decisions and achieve long-term success in the competitive mobile market.

Driven by data science and a human-centered approach, AppTweak is recognized for its innovative features and rapid growth. We have been awarded “ASO Tool of the Year” and “App Data Platform of the Year” by the App Growth Awards, and have been four times recognized as one of the fastest-growing technology companies by Deloitte Belgium.

Today we are a team of +130 people based in 8 offices around the globe (Brussels, San Francisco, Bengaluru, Tokyo, Seoul, London, Ho Chi Minh, and Beijing) supporting more than +2,000 customers worldwide.

Becoming an Apple Certified partner for Apple Ads this year means we’re entering our fast growth stage and are looking for ambitious individuals to join our team!