<h2><strong>About Us</strong></h2> <p>The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.</p> <p>At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Together, we help audiences stay better informed and deepen their understanding of the world around them.</p> <p>Our Product & Tech teams drive us forward in an ever-evolving digital landscape, delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers daily. Our growth relies on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists.</p> <p>With a supportive culture, entrepreneurial spirit and opportunities at every turn, there are no limits to where your FT career can take you.</p> <p><em>Build a newsworthy career at the FT.</em></p> <h3><strong>Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion</strong></h3> <div id="message-list_1792576409.805739" class="c-virtual_list__item" data-feat="message" data-qa="virtual-list-item" data-item-key="1792576409.805739"> <div class="c-message_kit__background c-message_kit__background--hovered p-message_pane_message__message c-message_kit__message" data-qa="message_container" data-qa-unprocessed="false" data-qa-placeholder="false" data-msg-ts="1792576409.805739" data-msg-channel-id="G03U7JV2HNX"> <div class="c-message_kit__hover c-message_kit__hover--hovered" data-qa-hover="true"> <div class="c-message_kit__actions c-message_kit__actions--default"> <div class="c-message_kit__gutter"> <div class="c-message_kit__gutter__right" data-qa="message_content"> <div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first" data-block-id="bdl0N" data-block-type="rich_text" data-message-channel="G03U7JV2HNX" data-message-ts="1792576409.805739"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <div class="p-rich_text_section"> <p>We believe everyone should have a fair opportunity to contribute, succeed, and reach their full potential. That means ensuring everyone is heard, respected, and valued, while identifying and removing barriers that may get in the way. Our commitment is to be an employer role model, grounded in inclusion and fairness for all.We want every application to receive fair and thoughtful consideration; therefore, all applications are reviewed by a member of our recruitment team, not by AI.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><strong>About you</strong></h2> <p>You are an experienced engineering leader with a strong software engineering background and a track record of leading teams responsible for business-critical products and platforms.</p> <p>You combine strong people leadership with credible technical judgement. You are comfortable setting direction, helping teams make complex engineering decisions and remaining close enough to the technology to understand the health, risks and opportunities within the platforms you own.</p> <p>You understand that engineering leadership is about more than delivery. You think about the long-term health of technology: architecture, reliability, security, scalability, developer experience, operational performance and the ability of teams to evolve their systems sustainably.</p> <p>You are comfortable working closely with Product and business stakeholders, translating priorities into engineering plans and making thoughtful trade-offs between new capabilities, technical investment and operational needs.</p> <p>You are also motivated by developing people and teams. You create clear ownership, coach engineers, build capability and create an environment where people can challenge, learn and take increasing responsibility.</p> <h2><strong>About the team</strong></h2> <p>Commercial Technology is part of the Internal Products group within FT Product & Technology. We are a multidisciplinary group of Engineers, Product Managers and Business Analysts responsible for building and operating the technology platforms that support the FT’s commercial capabilities across Marketing, Sales, Service and Commercial Data.</p> <p>We are undertaking a significant evolution of our commercial technology landscape, bringing these capabilities together around a more connected Salesforce platform and establishing a strong foundation for how our commercial teams engage with customers and use data.</p> <p>In <strong>Marketing & Commercial Dat</strong>a, we are evolving our marketing technology landscape towards Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next and Data 360, while continuing to operate and transition from established platforms including Bloomreach, Marketo and Legacy Salesforce Marketing Cloud products for B2B & B2C marketing.</p> <p>In <strong>Sales & Service</strong>, we are consolidating a number of Salesforce CRM orgs with their associated processes and procedures into a leaner Commercial Technology estate, utilising data available to us via Data 360, into a setup that aligns with the FT’s future commercial capabilities and setup.<br><br>In <strong>Commercial Platform</strong>, we are establishing a centre of excellence at the heart of the commercial workflow, tasked with ensuring the security, health and viability of our day-to-day commercial o