BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel. 

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network. 

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018  a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too! 

In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience. 

BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven.

Why joining us?

One of BlaBlaCar’s core ambitions is to build the largest people-powered travel network in the world. To achieve that goal, we set ourselves high and ambitious targets, bringing tech and data to the heart of a renewed product experience and company strategy. By joining our Engineering team, you will be managing our Marketplace team composed of Data Scientists and Software Engineers.

The Marketplace Manager's mission is to improve matching in our marketplace. The challenge can be broken down into 3 main goals:

• Managing the team and setting it up for success
• Delivering matching as a service in production
• Creating opportunities to optimize our marketplace

Management:

• Hiring and on-boarding newcomers in the team
• Developing expertise within the team around data science and machine learning engineering
• Taking responsibility for implementing best practices and ensure the team has best in class processes. This is critical to maximize the team productivity and mitigate operational risks
• Structuring the team to scale its operations further in the coming years, this includes managing the transition to more ownership of production workloads

• Implementing SLAs/SLOs and indicators for matching ML services in production. 
• Delivering the team roadmap, both from strategic and operational perspective
• Communicating sideways and upwards about roadmap progress, organizational changes and dependencies
• Creating close ties with stakeholders in Product and Engineering Organizations

• Aligning our ML models on our Product Marketing Strategy
• Fostering exploration. Setting the right objectives to trigger innovation from the team. This enables a substantial part of the team bandwidth to be allocated to delivering 10 times improvements in matching
• Contributing to data chapter projects, building common tools across teams
• Defining our strategy for collaborating with third parties on matching

What you will need to be successful:

- 5-8 years experience in engineering teams within hyper-growth tech companies;

- At least 2 years of management experience in a software development team context;

- A deep interest in people and high impact leadership;

- Support and inspire an ambitious group of engineers in their career goals;

- Great ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders;

- Strong track record in technical contribution;

- Experience in building performant web applications;

- Knowledge in working with agile methods;

- Comfortable with change, uncertainty and a high velocity environment;

- A first experience in organizational change and transformation is a strong plus;

- Product-oriented;

- Entrepreneurial, hands-on, pragmatic and collaborative attitude;

- Fluent in English, French is a plus.

A few practical details about the role

• Start: As soon as you are ready!

• Location: Paris HQ

• Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)

• Compensation: Competitive package based on experience 

What we offer all of our employees

• The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too; 

• A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture;

• An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw);

• State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location;

• A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork;

• Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment; 

• Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other;

• Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands;

And some other great perks!

• Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”;

• Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;

• Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap);

• The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment;

• Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe.

What is next?

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English. 

Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a short interview with the recruiter in charge.

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.