Lead EPM

What You'll Do:

As an EPM Lead, you will take ownership of leading and scaling a team of Engineering Program Managers (EPMs) to improve how Criteo R&D delivers products and services. You will enable others to succeed by guiding, mentoring, and empowering your team of EPMs rather than managing projects directly. Your mission is to act as a change agent across Criteo: driving continuous improvement, ensuring consistency of practices, and bridging across regions, hubs, and functions.

You will:

• Lead and develop a team of EPMs: provide coaching, career development, feedback, and performance management.
• Scale impact through others: enable EPMs to deliver at their best by focusing on removing obstacles, aligning priorities, and clarifying expectations.
• Deliver outcomes: ensure that complex engineering programs don't just run smoothly, but lead to concrete, measurable impact for the business and our clients.
• Promote lean best practices: champion the principle that the best processes are the smallest processes necessary to achieve results — nothing more.
• Recruit and grow the community: take part in recruiting efforts, mentor new joiners, and foster a strong sense of belonging within the EPM group.
• Bridge teams and functions: ensure strong alignment and communication between Product, Engineering, and R&D teams across regions and hubs.
• Be a point of escalation: step in when projects face challenges, help resolve blockers, and provide guidance to put initiatives back on track.
• Influence at scope level: collaborate with Tech Leaders, Engineering Managers, and Product counterparts on strategy, OKRs, priorities, and execution efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement: challenge the status quo, evolve the role of EPMs, and improve organizational efficiency and delivery processes.
• Represent R&D: contribute to cross-departmental, ensuring visibility and alignment of R&D efforts.

Who You Are:

• Experienced Leader: 15+ years of experience in engineering, program management, or related roles
• Change Agent: you accept ambiguity, challenge existing ways of working, and bring people together to continuously improve delivery.
• People Developer: you are passionate about coaching, mentoring, and scaling impact through others.
• Strong Communicator: you know how to tailor your message to technical and non-technical audiences, and you excel at building trust with stakeholders.
• Strategic and Pragmatic: you can zoom out to define vision and strategy, while ensuring day-to-day execution is effective and aligned.
• Collaborative Partner: you work effectively across functions and geographies, acting as a connector between teams.
• Influencer: you leverage soft power, relationships, and credibility to align teams and move initiatives forward.
• Organized & Impact-driven: you bring structure, prioritize effectively, and balance competing needs while keeping focus on outcomes.
• Background in software engineering

Nice to Have

• Experience in leading a team of program/project managers or technical teams.
• Experience working in global, product-oriented R&D organizations.
• Proven experience in recruiting, building, and nurturing strong teams.

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we'd love to see your application

Who We Are:

Criteo is a leader in commerce media, helping brands, agencies, and publishers create meaningful consumer connections through AI-powered advertising solutions. We're shaping a more open and sustainable digital future for advertising.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.

We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.

What We Offer:

Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.

Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.

Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.

A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.

Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.

Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.