Engineering Manager - Software Engineering, End User Support

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️ That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

About the role
Hybrid

This is an Engineering Manager role with a bold mission: transforming how End User Support works at Skyscanner through automation and AI.

You’ll lead a newly formed squad focused on reducing manual support effort at scale — freeing up time, speeding up resolutions, and creating a smoother experience for teams across the business, while guiding a traditional IT support team on a journey into automation, AI, and agent-led ways of working.

As part of our Employee Enablement tribe and wider AI Native initiative, you’ll help embed AI into everyday workflows, unlocking smarter ways of working and raising the AI maturity of our people.

You’ll guide a globally distributed team of System Engineers, shaping not just what they build, but how support evolves — from reactive and manual to proactive, intelligent, and scalable.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading an automation-first mission: You’ll drive the squad’s direction, delivering meaningful reductions in manual support through smart automation and AI

• Building and growing a high-performing team: You’ll coach, mentor and support engineers to do their best work (and enjoy doing it)

• Leading a team through transformation: You’ll help a traditional IT support team level up into automation and AI — building new skills, mindsets, and ways of working along the way

• Embedding AI into everyday workflows: You’ll design and deliver solutions that integrate GenAI and automation into core support processes

• Delivering impactful platforms and tooling: You’ll enable scalable systems that boost employee productivity across the company

• Partnering across the business: You’ll collaborate with other squads, Workplace, and Internal Comms to identify opportunities for AI-powered solutions

• Spotting high-impact opportunities: You’ll focus on the work that delivers the greatest return — automating the right things, not just more things

• Shaping the future of support: You’ll help evolve the operating model, including building and owning AI agents used beyond engineering teams

About you

• Outcome-driven and proactive: You spot opportunities, define solutions, and see them through in a fast-moving environment

• AI-curious (or better yet, AI-obsessed): You’re excited about GenAI, LLMs, and what they can unlock (bonus points for ML lifecycle knowledge)

• A builder of impactful solutions: You love creating systems that scale and make a real difference across teams

• Strategic yet hands-on: You can balance long-term thinking with short-term delivery

• A people-first leader: You care deeply about your team, investing in their growth and creating an environment where they can thrive

• Experimentation-friendly: You’re comfortable exploring new technologies and approaches, especially in a rapidly evolving AI space

• Experienced in automation: You’ve worked on automating workflows or processes and know how to turn repetitive tasks into seamless experiences

What it's like here

We are the real deal— no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️ building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.

Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.