About Tripadvisor

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork.

We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for our fast-growing Tripadvisor Experiences org. Tripadvisor Experiences (Viator) is the world's leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) —making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier. 

This is a hybrid role based out of Krakow on a permanent contract of employment/Umowa o pracę. We are unable to offer B2B contracts at this time.

What You'll Do:

• Lead multiple engineering pods within an Engineering Group, managing and coaching Managers and Principal Engineers, and owning hiring for the organisation in partnership with Talent Acquisition.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture and champion effective Agile development processes.
• Partner with Product to create and execute a multi-quarter roadmap across your pods. Hold pods accountable for delivering commitments on time and ensure dependencies - including those outside Engineering - are scheduled to meet them.
• Work closely with Principal Engineers to drive technology strategy and roadmap that aligns with the wider organisation vision.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, commitments, and timelines.
• Hold the teams accountable for operational excellence and quality. Run operations reviews, quality triaging, and incident debriefs. Ensure high-quality post-mortems are completed and action items are closed on time, represent the team in Incident Reviews.
• Calibrate performance assessments across the team, ensure every engineer has a formal career plan and goals, and deliver consistent feedback.
• Leverage AI to automate routine tasks and to assist with idea refinement, prioritisation, planning, and document creation. Advocate for effective AI usage across your pods and in the product.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices to ensure deliverables are complete, on time, and meet a high-quality standard.

What You'll Need:

• 10 years’ experience of commercial software development.
• 5+ years of engineering management, including experience as a second-line manager running multiple pods and managing other managers.
• Background in a product-focused company, collaborating closely with stakeholders to build up a backlog of product and technical initiatives.
• Directly responsible for performance management, formal career planning, and calibration across a team of teams.
• Strong mentorship skills, helping managers and engineers to grow technically and professionally.
• Strong technical background with the ability to deep-dive into designs and tradeoffs when needed, even if not coding day-to-day.
• Excellent ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions.
• Proven leadership in driving major projects and actively participating in cross-functional teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• Strong analytical skills to identify risks early, mitigate issues and provide contingency plans.
• Adept at making high-level decisions about product and technical direction, balancing business objectives with engineering capabilities.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools for planning, prioritisation, and document creation, plus awareness of best practices for producing and reviewing code with AI tools.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses
• “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like or as required by your team.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars:

Traveler first: We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.

Execution is our edge: We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.

We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com.

If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the answers!

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About This Opportunity

The Manager of Manager, HR is responsible for the cultural and organisational leadership of Kaseya’s Kraków Products & Technology site, home to 400+ technical professionals. This leader plays a pivotal role in positioning Kaseya as an employer of choice in the region, driving organisational alignment, and fostering a high-performance, globally consistent, values-driven culture.

You will partner closely with senior leadership across engineering, product, and business functions to build strong teams, strengthen employee engagement, and ensure that local execution aligns with Kaseya’s global operating principles.

What You’ll Own

HR Organizational Effectiveness & Talent Strategy

• Partner with talent acquisition to build and promote a compelling employer brand, ensuring hiring plans meet evolving product and engineering needs.
• Provide guidance on organizational design, workforce planning, restructures, and succession planning.

Business Partnership & Leadership Advisory

• Serve as a strategic partner to assigned business units and their senior leadership teams.
• Analyze trends and HR metrics to design proactive programs, policies, and solutions.
• Offer consultative support to leaders on performance, engagement, career paths, and organizational health.
• Drive initiatives that increase productivity, team cohesion, and long-term retention.

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Manage and resolve complex employee relations matters with discretion and professionalism.
• Conduct effective, objective investigations while maintaining accurate, comprehensive documentation.
• Ensure compliance with Polish employment law and relevant European HR practices, minimizing legal exposure.
• Partner with global total rewards teams to implement competitive, market-relevant compensation and benefits aligned with global equity standards.
• Champion Kaseya’s position as a top-tier employer in Kraków’s competitive technology market.
• Integrate local workplace culture with Kaseya’s global values, ensuring consistency across teams and geographies.
• Collaborate with leadership and employees to strengthen work relationships, build morale, and increase retention.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including 3+ years supporting technology or engineering organizations.
• Strong background operating within software development environments and familiarity with technical career frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, navigate matrixed organisations, and lead change.
• Fluent in English and Polish (Belarusian or Ukrainian a plus).
• Deep knowledge of Polish labor law and European HR practices.
• Experience managing systems, budgets, and HR operations in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort balancing strategic and hands-on responsibilities.
• Cultural sensitivity and experience bridging American corporate culture with European working styles.

About This Opportunity

The Manager of Senior HRBP is responsible for the cultural and organisational leadership of Kaseya’s Kraków Products & Technology site, home to 400+ technical professionals. This leader plays a pivotal role in positioning Kaseya as an employer of choice in the region, driving organisational alignment, and fostering a high-performance, globally consistent, values-driven culture.

You will partner closely with senior leadership across engineering, product, and business functions to build strong teams, strengthen employee engagement, and ensure that local execution aligns with Kaseya’s global operating principles.

What You’ll Own

HR Organizational Effectiveness & Talent Strategy

• Partner with talent acquisition to build and promote a compelling employer brand, ensuring hiring plans meet evolving product and engineering needs.
• Provide guidance on organizational design, workforce planning, restructures, and succession planning.

Business Partnership & Leadership Advisory

• Serve as a strategic partner to assigned business units and their senior leadership teams.
• Analyze trends and HR metrics to design proactive programs, policies, and solutions.
• Offer consultative support to leaders on performance, engagement, career paths, and organizational health.
• Drive initiatives that increase productivity, team cohesion, and long-term retention.

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Manage and resolve complex employee relations matters with discretion and professionalism.
• Conduct effective, objective investigations while maintaining accurate, comprehensive documentation.
• Ensure compliance with Polish employment law and relevant European HR practices, minimizing legal exposure.
• Partner with global total rewards teams to implement competitive, market-relevant compensation and benefits aligned with global equity standards.
• Champion Kaseya’s position as a top-tier employer in Kraków’s competitive technology market.
• Integrate local workplace culture with Kaseya’s global values, ensuring consistency across teams and geographies.
• Collaborate with leadership and employees to strengthen work relationships, build morale, and increase retention.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including 3+ years supporting technology or engineering organizations.
• Strong background operating within software development environments and familiarity with technical career frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, navigate matrixed organisations, and lead change.
• Fluent in English and Polish (Belarusian or Ukrainian a plus).
• Deep knowledge of Polish labor law and European HR practices.
• Experience managing systems, budgets, and HR operations in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort balancing strategic and hands-on responsibilities.
• Cultural sensitivity and experience bridging American corporate culture with European working styles.