Head of Engineering Operations

Kognity

Head of Engineering Operations role at Kognity in Stockholm. Responsible for managing engineering systems and team performance to enhance operational efficiency.

Posted 5/25/2026full-timeStockholm • 🇸🇪 SwedenLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the engineering operating system: tools, processes, vendor contracts, on-call staffing, and access reviews.
Make hiring fast and consistent: own the end-to-end hiring process, interviewer calibration, onboarding, and role consistency across Engineering Managers.
Drive cultural and operational change from decision to reality: lead Tech 2.0 rollout across shipping pace, customer proximity, and values embedding.
Own engineering performance visibility: build and maintain the measurement infrastructure covering investment tracking, shipping pace, system health, and quality metrics.
Support and sharpen the EM layer: facilitate the Tech Leadership Team, drive EM practice consistency, and own EM onboarding.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A background as a senior, principal, or staff engineer with meaningful experience leading and managing people, ideally including time as an engineering manager, VP Engineering, or CTO in a scaling organisation.
Demonstrated ability to operate without formal authority, driving change through credibility, clear thinking, and strong relationships rather than positional power.
A systems thinker with a bias for simplification.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
A passion for AI and a drive to experiment with new tools to enhance creativity, decisions, and execution.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Continuous growth is the baseline
High ownership, high expectations
Work on problems that matter

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Hard Skills & Tools

engineering managementperformance measurementinvestment trackingquality metricsonboarding processeshiring processesvendor managementoperational changesystems thinkingAI experimentation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationrelationship buildingcredibilityclear thinkingcultural change facilitationdecision makingbias for simplificationteam facilitationrole consistency