Lead Engineer, Schibsted Product Lab

About this role

We’re building the next generation of Schibsted’s media products Schibsted's product ambition is to reinvent our media destinations for the AI era, to make our journalism a relevant daily habit for more people. Most of that work happens in our existing product organisation, where we continuously improve and reinvent products used by millions of people every day. But some ideas need something different. They need more freedom from today's products and business models, a longer horizon, greater uncertainty and permission to challenge the core.

That's why we're setting up Schibsted Product Lab . It's a small, autonomous unit that builds, launches and tests new media products with real users. We start small and invest more as the evidence grows. We stop ideas that don't prove themselves. And we help the ones that work become part of Schibsted's core, or reshape it. We're now looking for a Lead Engineer to join the Product Lab core team. How we want to work Our ambition is to make Product Lab an AI-enabled, high-velocity product environment where we can move from idea to execution at high speed.

We want to push the boundaries of how emerging technologies can transform the way we discover, design and build products, equipping small teams with the tools and capabilities to turn ambitious ideas into real user experiences in days rather than months. We embrace experimentation, challenge established ways of working and prioritise learning over perfection. And we see the ability to confidently stop an idea that doesn't work as just as important as knowing when to invest further.

The role and mission Your mission is to find out what's technically possible, and to build enough to prove it. You'll be as much an AI engineer as a software engineer, because much of what the Lab builds has AI at its core. "Lead" means you're the senior engineer in the Lab's core team, so the technical calls are yours. You set the technical direction across our ideas, and you write a lot of the code yourself. That also means you drive your own work and your own learning.

You're part of the core team led by the Director of Product Lab, and you report directly to the Director of Technology in Schibsted's Product organisation. The role grows with the Lab. You start with no direct reports and your hands in the code. As Product Lab grows, you'll also help shape how we build technical teams around successful bets, and strengthen the engineering craft and culture of the Lab. Over time, that can include people management.