Engineering Manager - Templating

Storyteq · Cape Town, South Africa (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-14

Workplace: hybrid

Department: R&D

Description

Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates & AI, and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster. We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn’t. Since 2016, our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lie at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.

About the role

You’ll lead a team of around 10 engineers in our Templating Domain and report directly to the VP of Software Engineering. This is a remote role based in South Africa, with the option to work from our Cape Town office. We care more about impact than hours at a desk. There’s also a clear growth path from here, including the opportunity to progress toward a Group Engineering Manager role.

About the team

The Templating Domain sits at the heart of Storyteq’s Creative Automation platform and is a key driver of customer value, powering how global brands create, personalize, and generate assets at scale. It’s one of Storyteq’s core product areas, covering everything from template authoring to asset generation and rendering. The team builds and maintains the tools our customers use to create templates plus the platform experience for configuring those templates and generating finished assets from them at scale.

About the job

This isn’t a hands-on coding role, but it is a highly technical one. We’re looking for a manager who stays close to the architecture, technical decisions, and operational challenges of the systems their team owns. You should be comfortable participating in design reviews, incident discussions, and technical decision-making, while providing clear technical leadership and coaching to engineers. AI is changing how software is built and how our products evolve. We want someone who can help teams adopt these capabilities thoughtfully, focusing on practical value rather than trends.

Key responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team, owning hiring, onboarding, and team structure as the domain scales.
Provide technical leadership across architecture, engineering practices, and operational excellence.
Partner with Product and Design to define priorities and deliver business impact.
Own delivery, quality, reliability, and the long-term health of the domain.
Drive technical direction and architectural decisions, balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability.
Remove obstacles, support engineers, and foster a high-ownership engineering culture.
Champion the pragmatic adoption of AI across engineering and product development.
Collaborate with adjacent teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences.
Lead production incident management and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

2+ years of experience as a Lead and/or Engineering Manager, managing a team of 5+ engineers, including remote team members.
A strong software engineering background, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment, with the ability to guide technical decisions and support engineers on complex challenges.
Experience working with modern web technologies. Our primary stack is TypeScript (Node.js and Vue.js), with Python used for AI-related development.
A hands-on leadership style, staying close to the technology and the challenges your team faces.
A pragmatic approach to AI and experience helping teams adopt new technologies where they deliver real value.
Experience building and operating customer-facing software products with architectural and operational complexity.
The ability to balance feature delivery, technical debt, and platform investments.
Strong communication skills and the ability to represent technical decisions and trade-offs to a broad set of stakeholders.
A passion for coaching, developing, and growing engineers while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.

Things we love at Storyteq:

See and seize opportunities
Take ownership
Focus on impact

Requirements

We Value Diversity
We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet because we’re always stronger together.

ITG have a number of community groups (ERGs) available to employees which offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other. These include Black ITGers Together, LGBTQ+ Together, Mens Health Together, Muslims Together, Neurodiversity Together, Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together.

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About the company

Storyteq provides a cloud-based marketing operations platform that automates the creation, management, and distribution of marketing assets for large brands. It uses Dynamic Templates to quickly personalize videos, banners, and print materials for different markets, while offering Brand Portals and an Active DAM to organize assets and ensure brand consistency. The platform connects with major ad channels and tools like Google, Meta, TikTok, and the Adobe Creative Suite, and includes workflow, reviews, approvals, and analytics to run campaigns at scale. BrandCore, an AI engine, learns brand guidelines and user behavior to improve on-brand content, and Storyteq positions itself as an enterprise-focused solution within its ITG and CanopyCloud-backed family.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$1.3M

Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

June 2024 Comcast AdFusion integration expands Storyteq into omnichannel ad execution.
Kiwibank and other enterprise logos validate Storyteq across regulated, global customers.
Pixelz.ai acquisition and 2026 releases deepen AI capabilities and product velocity.

What critics are saying

ITG still carried $536.2 million net debt after its August 2026 IPO.
Bynder, Adobe, and Salesforce squeeze Storyteq's CMP and DAM pricing.
AI automation raises brand-safety failures; one bad output can trigger enterprise churn.

What makes Storyteq unique

April 2026 Gartner named Storyteq a Leader for the fourth straight year.
Jan. 2026 Firefly integration embeds Adobe generative AI inside Storyteq workflows.
July 2026 releases speed brief-to-publish across content, workflow, and approvals.

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Benefits

Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Health Insurance
Wellness Program
Employee Discounts
Mental Health Support
Commuter Benefits
Employee Referral Bonus
Parental Leave
Hybrid Work Options
Company Equity
Conference Attendance Budget

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Headcount

6 month growth

51%

1 year growth

51%

2 year growth

51%

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Oct 20th, 2026

ITG appoints Juliette Aiken as Storyteq chief marketing officer to drive global growth

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), an AI-powered content company, has appointed Juliette Aiken as chief marketing officer of Storyteq, its marketing technology platform. She will lead global marketing strategy and brand growth. Aiken previously worked at Dotdigital, where she helped grow the company to more than 3,000 clients worldwide. She will focus on raising awareness of Storyteq, which has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Marketing Platforms for four years running. She will also promote its role in ITG's wider offer, which combines AI, technology, data, and expert services. "Juliette's expertise will help us communicate that vision more effectively," said ITG chief executive officer Andrew Swinand.

PR Newswire

Nov 13th, 2025

Storyteq by ITG named a Gartner Leader in Digital Asset Management.

Storyteq by ITG named a Gartner Leader in Digital Asset Management. News provided by. Share this article. LONDON and CHICAGO, November 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Storyteq by ITG has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Asset Management, after the company was earlier this year recognized as a Leader in the CMP area. This is the second consecutive year that Storyteq has been acknowledged as a Leader in the highly competitive DAM field by the technology research and consulting firm. ITG attributes the company's success to the use of advanced AI in areas such as smart tagging for improved search and the analysis of multiple data sources to suggest optimal content for every customer communication. Andrew Swinand, CEO of ITG, says: 'We are very pleased with our position in the DAM Leaders Quadrant, with Storyteq DAM being placed farthest on the 'Completeness of Vision' axis.' 'Our strategy is to develop Storyteq as the backbone of an AI-powered content ecosystem. While many companies are investing in generative AI, poor implementation strategies result in only 5% of AI pilot projects delivering benefits. Our approach aims to achieve this 100% by leveraging AI performance to better organize and manage content on a large scale.' In March 2025, Storyteq was also named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for CMP, where the company again achieved the best placement on the 'Completeness of Vision' axis. Swinand adds: 'We believe that the fact that we are considered leading in both the DAM and CMP areas confirms to us that we are right with our AI-powered, object-oriented approach to content, which manages the entire content lifecycle, from strategy, planning, and content workflows to asset management, deployment, and performance analysis.' 'One of the main strengths of Storyteq has always been its configurability and scalability at the enterprise level, enabling the provision of worldwide enterprise support that meets the individual requirements of each company, regardless of how many users, brands, and markets it has.' Storyteq was also designed to seamlessly integrate with adjacent platforms to unify all global corporate activities and data. Swinand: 'I am very proud of our teams and their pursuit of continuous innovation that has made this award possible.' Gartner does not endorse vendors, products, or services depicted in its market research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designations. Gartner's market research publications reflect the opinions of Gartner's market research organization and should not be understood as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all express or implied liability related to this market research activity, including liability for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally. Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used here with permission. All rights reserved. ITG is the leading AI-powered Halo content partner for companies worldwide. It eliminates the complexity of marketing and delivers engaging content at high speed and on a large scale to drive business growth and reduce marketing costs. Customers include Heineken, Microsoft, Samsung, Haleon, KFC, and others. ITG employs over 2,000 people in its global offices and is part of Bridgepoint's corporate portfolio. About Storyteq Storyteq is the market-leading AI-powered content marketing platform and enterprise DAM from ITG. Storyteq unifies marketing workflows and increases efficiency at every stage of the content journey, enabling marketers to create more and better content for less money. Storyteq's enterprise solution is configurable for the unique way each company works, regardless of operational complexity, number of brands, or regions in which it operates. It is also available as a pre-configured product from Storyteq Professional. Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2820214/ITG_powered_by_Storyteq_Logo.jpg

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Mar 31st, 2025

ITG and Sundogs partner to transform creative efficacy through AI

Storyteq was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for both Content Marketing Platforms and Digital Asset Management - the only vendor worldwide to be recognized as a Leader in both categories.

PR Newswire

Mar 13th, 2025

Storyteq recognized in Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Content Marketing Platforms for third successive year

Storyteq was recognized as a Leader by Gartner based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, and was identified as the furthest in vision amongst all technology vendors in the Magic Quadrant.

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Jan 9th, 2025

Storyteq named in the 2025 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for DAM

Storyteq, part of the Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Digital Asset Management (DAM).