This role sits within Residential Advertising Value, supporting product development across REA’s Residential business. Residential is a fast-moving, high-impact part of REA, with opportunities spanning value, packaging, on-market experiences, agent workflows, selling and renting.
You’ll establish a dedicated ML capability for residential, working across tribes rather than being limited to a single product area. The initial team comprises four Xi’an-based contractors, with the potential to grow as demand develops. You’ll also work closely with product managers, designers, XP teams, the AI Enrichment team and other AI teams across REA.
This is an opportunity to shape how ML is applied across residential from the ground up - building the team’s approach, ways of working and technical standards while contributing to products that matter to customers and the business.
What the role is all about
As Engineering Manager - AI, you’ll lead the development of REA’s residential ML capability and play a pivotal role in driving technical quality and delivery success across the Residential portfolio.
This role combines technical leadership, delivery leadership and people leadership. Your focus will be on setting direction, creating clarity and coordinating effective delivery across a distributed team and changing product priorities. While you won’t be expected to spend most of your time implementing models, you’ll need the technical depth to review code, discuss architecture and challenge proposed solutions when a problem may not call for data science.