Overview

Meet DeepL. DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. We aim to become the global leader in Language AI, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and make a real-life impact. If you’re ready to work with a dynamic team and build your career in the fast-moving AI space, DeepL is your next destination.

The Director of Engineering - Enterprise leads a portfolio of tracks focused on building the technical foundations that enable commercial velocity and operational scale across our enterprise business. This role sits at the intersection of product evolution, platform resilience, and go-to-market enablement. It will drive the delivery of systems that support flexible monetization models, enterprise-grade compliance and control, and increasingly automated commercial workflows. Success means driving clarity amid complexity, sequencing high-impact improvements, and shaping how we evolve our enterprise platform as we grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary engineering tracks focused on delivering platform capabilities that enable scalable revenue growth across global enterprise markets.
• Partner closely with Product and Commercial leadership to shape roadmap investments in pricing and packaging evolution, billing systems, and enterprise-grade admin and analytics experiences.
• Drive engineering strategy and execution for initiatives that touch cross-cutting concerns (commercial enablement, customer lifecycle infrastructure, and platform extensibility) balancing foundational improvements with time-to-impact.
• Develop scalable organizational structures and team composition to support parallel streams of high-leverage work across subscription systems, expansion tooling, and enterprise onboarding flows.
• Mentor and grow engineering managers and technical leads, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence.

Qualities we look for

• Proven experience leading engineering organizations delivering enterprise-facing SaaS capabilities at scale.
• Deep understanding of commercial and platform systems (e.g., pricing, billing, access control, analytics), ideally within B2B contexts.
• Strong ability to operate across strategic and tactical layers: balancing roadmap constraints, org capacity, and product-market dynamics.
• Demonstrated success in influencing cross-functional priorities and driving clarity in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.

What we offer

• Diverse and internationally distributed team: a global community with people of more than 90 nationalities, with a growing presence in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan.
• Open communication and regular feedback: clear, honest communication and collaborative teamwork.
• Hybrid work and flexible hours: option to work in the office several days per week with flexibility for remote work and time-zone alignment.
• Regular in-person team events and monthly Hack Fridays to collaborate across teams and drive initiative and creativity.
• 30 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays) with access to mental health resources.
• Competitive benefits: tailored to your location to provide support across our global team.

EEO statement: We are an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at DeepL for who you are—we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward.