Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – Digital Customer Platforms 

Make a difference with Laerdal where immersive technology transforms healthcare quality and education across the globe. With over 2,200 colleagues, join a team where collaboration and engagement are prioritized in helping save one million more lives, every year, by 2030.

About the role 

In the Digital Customer Platforms team at Laerdal, we shape how customers around the world discover, buy, and use products and services that help save lives. Through our global e‑commerce platform on laerdal.com, we deliver scalable, secure, and increasingly AI‑supported digital solutions across more than 25 markets.

As Engineering Manager, based in Stavanger, you will lead a great team of software engineers working on business‑critical platforms with real societal impact. You’ll balance people leadership with technical insight, creating an environment where collaboration, learning, and long‑term product sustainability come first. Your role is to help teams succeed—today and over time—while continuously improving how we build and evolve our digital solutions.

Our technology landscape is modern and evolving, with C#/.NET on Azure at the core and React and Vue.js on the frontend. Experience with our stack is valuable, but we especially welcome leaders with strong fundamentals in cloud technologies, APIs, and product‑focused software development, who are curious about how AI can be applied responsibly and meaningfully.

Some of what you will be doing

• Lead and support a team of engineers by setting clear direction, building trust, and encouraging growth
• Shape technical choices with an eye on quality, sustainability, security, and long‑term platform health
• Partner closely with Product and Design to turn ideas into well‑prioritized, valuable customer solutions
• Strengthen ways of working across the team—from planning and delivery to testing and continuous improvement
• Promote good engineering practices and thoughtful use of emerging technologies, including AI
• Help create a positive, inclusive team culture where diverse perspectives are valued

Who we think will thrive here

You are a leader who enjoys enabling others and believes strong teams build the best products. You bring technical credibility, curiosity, and empathy to your work, and  you’re motivated by creating durable solutions rather than quick fixes. Whether you already lead teams or are ready to take the next step into engineering leadership, you care deeply about collaboration, quality, and impact.
Experience that will support your success includes:

• A solid background in software development and modern engineering practices  and relevant higher education
• Experience leading, mentoring, or guiding engineers in a product‑focused environment
• Comfort working with cloud‑based systems; Azure experience is a plus
• Experience from agile, empowered, cross‑functional teams
• A leadership style that communicates clearly, listens actively, and builds engagement
• Takes initiatives and move ideas into action
• Approaches challenges with structured problem solving and critical thinking.  .

We know strong leaders don’t all look the same—if this role speaks to you, we’d love to hear from you.

What we offer

At Laerdal, you will get the opportunity to learn, develop, and innovate and you will be a part of an international working environment where the possibility to make an impact is endless.

• An interesting, impactful and important job contributing to our mission
• Great opportunities for growth and personal development
• A multicultural office environment and collaboration with colleagues located around the world
• A creative, diverse, and inclusive organization
• A job in a company driving forward-thinking technology
• Competitive salary, pension scheme, and insurance
• An extensive welfare program with company benefits such as discounted public transport, indoor bicycle garage, and workshop, wardrobe with towel service, social and sports groups, company cabins, and more

Our colleagues are from all over the world, and we pride ourselves on being an international company. We offer a competitive relocation package if you will be relocating from another country to Norway.

Curious to know more?  Please contact Katrine Holdhus; [email protected] for questions regarding this vacancy.

Don’t wait until the deadline (14 October) to apply. We review applications as they come in and may begin interviews before the closing date.

Please note that we use Semac background checks in our recruitment process.