Full-Time

Senior Engineering Manager

AI Platform

Posted on 9/9/2026

GetYourGuide

GetYourGuide

1,001-5,000 employees

Tech-enabled travel platform for activities

No salary listed

Berlin, Germany

Hybrid

Three days in the office per week are required; two days of optional home working are available.

Category
Engineering Management (1)
Required Skills
LLM

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Requirements
  • Strong engineering background in platform engineering, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
  • Ability to evaluate complex technical decisions related to abstractions, evaluation systems, and safety mechanisms.
  • Ability to lead and contribute to technical, design, and product discussions while balancing innovation velocity with production reliability standards.
  • Ability to mentor, coach, and empower engineers to tackle novel challenges in the AI space.
  • Ability to build confidence and capability across technical teams through documentation, workshops, and hands-on collaboration.
Responsibilities
  • Lead all hiring and performance management processes for the engineering team.
  • Drive high-impact projects and outcomes by managing the team's roadmap and portfolio allocation.
  • Find and deliver solutions to complex technical challenges spanning multiple services and business domains.
  • Establish and promote best practices for large language model development across the technology organization.
  • Balance rapid innovation with production standards to maintain quality, security, and reliability.
  • Build strategic partnerships with product, engineering leadership, and vendors to align platform capabilities with business needs.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building platform infrastructure or developer tooling that enables other engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably.
  • Experience working with large language models in production environments, including prompt engineering, evaluation systems, or AI safety mechanisms.
  • Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment, taking projects from zero to one and scaling them across an organization.
  • Experience operating as a technical product manager or owner, particularly for internal platform products serving engineering customers.
  • Track record of successful technical evangelism and education initiatives that drove adoption and capability-building across engineering organizations.

GetYourGuide runs a global online platform that connects travelers with a wide range of activities, tours, and experiences. Travelers search, compare options, and book activities directly on the site, with payments processed through the platform and support available for bookings. The company earns revenue from commissions on each booking and from premium listings or promotions for activity providers. Its goal is to make trips easier and more memorable by offering a scalable marketplace that helps people turn ordinary travel into curated experiences.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series F

Total Funding

$1.1B

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • FY2025 delivered over €1 billion revenue, profitability, and €4 billion-plus GMV.
  • First-half 2026 bookings exceeded 18 million experiences, with GMV up 27% year over year.
  • March and April 2026 launches added Rob Rekrutiak, ChatGPT planning, and AI-powered discovery.

What critics are saying

  • Viator listed 6,731 Rome experiences versus GetYourGuide's 4,125 on 5 September 2026.
  • AI travel assistants bypass marketplaces, compressing GetYourGuide's commission economics within 2026-2027.
  • Profitability depends on repeat bookings; 2024 still showed €489 million accumulated losses.

What makes GetYourGuide unique

  • Europe-first marketplace with 14 languages and 10,000+ cities, still stronger than Viator in Europe.
  • Verified-buyer reviews, tighter listing standards, and clearer cancellation terms reduce booking friction.
  • Spring 2026 AI tools and supplier workflows deepen operator lock-in across 50,000 partners.

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Benefits

Professional Development Budget

Stock Options

Hybrid Work Options

Commuter Benefits

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Flexible Work Hours

Health Insurance

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

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The Ticketing Business
Aug 5th, 2026
Bookingkit and NaviPartner form strategic partnership.

Bookingkit and NaviPartner form strategic partnership. Bookingkit has joined forces with Denmark's NaviPartner to offer a one-stop-shop for leisure experiences and attractions. NaviPartner is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for retail, attractions and hospitality, while Bookingkit is a platform for booking, marketing and managing leisure experiences. By combining NaviPartner's on-site operations and entry management expertise with Bookingkit's channel management offering, the partnership aims to create a seamless process from the first sale through to on-site redemption. Attractions operate an increasingly complex technology landscape, and ticketing, access control, retail and financial processes need to work together, while sales have to reach visitors across a growing number of online channels. The partnership will bring these two worlds together: NaviPartner will deliver the unified on-site backbone through its NP Attraction platform, while Bookingkit provides one of the world's most powerful channel managers to distribute those experiences across leading sales channels. Meanwhile, NaviPartner customers will gain access to high-reach distribution channels, thanks to Bookingkit's technical integrations with online travel agencies such as GetYourGuide, Viator, and Google Things to do. The partnership will also boost each company's regional strengths, with Bookingkit contributing in-depth knowledge of the German and wider European market, while NaviPartner brings an established footprint across the Nordics to the table. The two companies already share clients such as Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. "Attractions today need more than just a ticketing system. They need connected solutions that help them sell across multiple channels, manage visitor flows, and create engaging experiences," said Mark Stewart Pederson, chief executive of NaviPartner. "Through our partnership with Bookingkit, our customers can benefit from a more integrated approach where online sales, distribution, ticket validation, and operational processes work together seamlessly. This partnership enables attractions to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and focus on delivering memorable experiences for their visitors."

Yahoo Finance
Mar 26th, 2026
GetYourGuide launches 'Book Forward to It' campaign celebrating travel planning

GetYourGuide has launched its 2026 global brand campaign, "Book Forward to It", challenging the myth that the best travel experiences happen spontaneously. The campaign, developed with creative agency Preacher, targets the 80% of travellers who prioritise preparation over impulse. The integrated campaign runs across TV, connected TV, digital video, out-of-home, radio, paid social and streaming audio in the US, UK, France and Germany. It features four hero films showcasing real travellers in Mexico, Italy, Spain and off-the-beaten-path destinations, demonstrating how memorable moments stem from advance planning through the GetYourGuide app. The campaign follows GetYourGuide's landmark year achieving profitability, €1 billion in revenue in 2025, and 33 million experiences booked. The company recently appointed Rob Rekutriak as chief product officer and launched a ChatGPT app.

Associated Press
Mar 2nd, 2026
GetYourGuide hires Rob Rekrutiak as CPO to capture $475B experiences market with AI

GetYourGuide has appointed Rob Rekrutiak as Chief Product Officer. Rekrutiak joins from senior product leadership roles at Google, Lyft and Gojek, and will be based at the company's Berlin headquarters. The appointment comes as GetYourGuide surpassed €1 billion in revenue in 2025, with 33 million experiences booked. The company operates in a global experiences market valued at over €420 billion, with 50,000 active supply partners and 200,000 bookable experiences worldwide. Rekrutiak will focus on leveraging AI to improve discovery, trip planning and connections between travellers and local operators. Co-founder and CEO Johannes Reck said Rekrutiak "came in with a compelling vision for GetYourGuide" after building products at scale across Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia.

PhocusWire
May 8th, 2025
Ceo Spotlight: Johannes Reck Of Getyourguide

GetYourGuideJohannes Reck co-founded GetYourGuide with three classmates in 2009 after he faced a lost travel day in Beijing. When his classmate and later co-founder Tao Tao arrived, he acted as a local tour guide, allowing Reck to better experience the city. It was then that the idea for GetYourGuide was born. GetYourGuide offers tours, activities, attractions, shows, events and more across the globe as part of its online marketplace. Johannes Reck, CEO of GetYourGuide, has been on a decade-and-a-half journey with the experiences-focused company he co-founded.Last week, the company launched a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for operators and also announced its shows and events offering. With tours and activities remaining a growth area within the travel industry, Reck opened up about GetYourGuide's role, the sector’s future and more in an interview with PhocusWire.* This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity

PhocusWire
Apr 28th, 2025
Getyourguide Launches Ai Tools, Expands To Shows, Events

GetYourGuide is launching a suite of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools and other capabilities for operators and will also soon offer shows and events.The tours and activities online booking platform said the product release kicks off its expansion to live events. As part of the move, customers will be able to use the seat selection tool directly in GetYourGuide’s mobile application for certain venues. Tao Tao, chief operating officer and co-founder for GetYourGuide, said the new features are about giving operators the right tools to shine.“With technology on their side, they get more control and insights, helping them create unique, high-quality offerings that stand out in a competitive market," Tao said. “On top of that, in today's digital world, shared live experiences are more valuable than ever. With Shows Events, we’re excited to build a more cross-category experience marketplace that provides a top-tier booking flow and opens new doors for customers and partners alike.”“AI Content Insights” is a new AI-powered tool that automatically identifies listing inconsistencies such as missing inclusions and conflicting meeting points. The tool then provides recommendations to assist operators as they seek to provide accurate content.“Review Management Provider Rating” will use AI-generated summaries to scan reviews, highlighting patterns that could otherwise require lengthy analysis