Director, Technology

Location: Company: Allegro sp. z o.o. Team: Technology Contract Type: Employee Job Description Main Challenges: Organizational Alignment at Scale: Maintaining execution speed, technical alignment, and strong culture across a 100+ person organization operating through multiple layers of management. Balancing Tri-Sided Value Propositions: Harmonizing competing priorities between merchant demands (low fees, high SLAs), customer expectations (speed, precision), and fleet economic constraints (cost-per-parcel). Real-Time AI Deployment: Operationalizing complex machine learning models in production C-Suite Vision vs. Operational Realities: Managing C-level expectations and growth targets while navigating execution limitations." Your main responsibilities: Business Strategy & Executive Stakeholder Management: Set the long-term delivery technology vision, align product roadmaps with commercial goals, establish OKRs, and present strategy directly to VP and C-level executives. Merchant & Customer Value Propositions: Drive product strategy for the delivery ecosystem, creating high-converting merchant tools and transparent end-customer experiences People Leadership: Lead, structure, and scale a 100+ person cross-functional organization of product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and engineering managers; drive organizational design, talent retention, and cross-team execution velocity. AI & Applied Machine Learning: Lead the application of AI/ML models to solve core delivery problems. Delivery Platform Infrastructure: Oversee cloud platform architecture. Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the long-term Product & Engineering roadmap for Delivery Experience, balancing immediate operational goals with long-term technological vision. AI & Product Innovation: Drive technological transformation by architecting and integrating agentic AI solutions into product flows to enhance system capabilities and product usability. People Leadership: Operational Excellence: Overhaul workflows by instilling modern product management frameworks, establishing clear execution metrics, and embedding simulation-driven decision-making. Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the primary bridge between Product/Engineering, business units, and logistics operations to deliver value for both end-customers (B2C) and merchants (B2B). Hands-on Problem Solving: Deep-dive into operational or technical bottlenecks when necessary to challenge the status quo and unblock delivery teams. We are looking for: Proven Track Record of Measurable Outcomes: A technology leader with a quantifiable history of driving high-impact product results—delivering concrete improvements in delivery speed, merchant efficiency, conversion, and operational margins. You take full end-to-end ownership of outcomes, not just output or feature delivery. Dual Product & Engineering Mastery : A strong software engineering foundation paired with sharp commercial instincts, enabling you to bridge complex technical architecture with long-term business strategy. Domain Expertise in Logistics & Operations: Deep experience building and scaling consumer-facing delivery products, merchant logistics tools, or operations automation within high-scale e-commerce or delivery ecosystems. Organizational Scaling & Operational Discipline: Demonstrated experience leading, structuring, and growing large product and engineering organizations, establishing operational efficiency, engineering rigour, and a high-accountability culture. Bold Ownership & Strategic Execution: A decisive leader with the courage to make high-stakes architectural and product calls, navigate organizational complexity, and execute bold bets in a fast-paced environment. Data Rigor & C-Suite Influence: Highly analytical mindset with a track record of leveraging data to drive strategic alignment, navigate matrixed stakeholders, and establish immediate credibility with executive leadership. Executive Communication & English Fluency: Exceptional written and verbal English skills, capable of translating complex technology strategies into compelling narratives for C-suite leaders and cross-functional partners alike. What we offer: Flexible working hours in the hybrid model (4/1) - our hours can start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. We also have 30 days of occasional remote work. Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares (restricted stock units). Annual bonus based on your annual performance and company results. Well-located offices (with e.g. fully equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces full of greenery) and excellent work tools (e.g., raised desks, ergonomic chairs, interactive conference rooms). A 16" or 14" MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and all the necessary accessories. A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan - you choose what you like (e.g., medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers). English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job. A training budget, inter-team tourism ( more here ), hackathons, and an internal learning platform where you will find multiple trainings. An additional day off for volunteering, which you can use alone, with a team, or with a larger group of people connected by a common goal. Social events for Allegro people - Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code, and many other occasions we enjoy. And that's just the beginning! You can read more about the benefits here . #goodtobehere means that: You will join a team you can count on - we work with top-class specialists who have sharing knowledge and experience in their DNA. You will love our level of autonomy in team organization, the space for continuous development, and the opportunity to try new things. You get to choose which technology solves the problem and you are responsible for what you create. You will value our Developer Experience and the full platform of tools and technologies that make creating software easier. We rely on an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. Thanks to this, you can contribute to Allegro from your very first days on the job. You will be equipped with modern AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on developing new services and refining existing ones (also leveraging AI support). You will create solutions that will be used (and loved!) by your friends, family and millions of our customers. You will meet the Allegro Scale, which starts with over 1000 microservices, an open-source data bus (Hermes) with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production-used machine learning. You will become part of Allegro Tech - We speak at industry conferences, cooperate with tech communities, run our own blog (it's been over 10 years!), record podcasts, lead guilds, and we organize our own internal conference - the Allegro Tech Meeting. We create solutions we love (and can) to talk about! Send us your CV and… see you at Allegro! Don’t wait until you join us! Let's meet online! Get to know our team, take a peek at our office life and check out what else we do at Allegro. Visit our website