Other Technical
Other technical roles suitable for transitioning engineers
Growth Marketing Automation Engineer
Build automation systems, tools, and agents that enable the growth marketing team to operate at scale, focusing on identifying repetitive work and replacing it with efficient solutions rather than running campaigns directly.
Principal Engineer
A Principal Engineer role at a non-profit focused on AI safety and whistleblower protection, likely involving technical leadership, policy guidance, and coordination between engineers, lawyers, and advocates rather than hands-on coding.
Knowledge Management Specialist
Build and maintain organizational knowledge systems, making information discoverable and trustworthy across teams. Focus on connecting people, reducing knowledge silos, and enabling better decision-making through improved information architecture and sharing practices.
AI Enablement Engineer
Senior role focused on enabling engineering teams to adopt AI-assisted and agentic development tools, improving developer productivity and software quality across the organization. Involves cross-functional collaboration with engineers, managers, and product teams rather than direct coding.
Chief Technology Officer
A CTO role at a mission-driven nonprofit focused on global poverty alleviation. Day-to-day involves setting technology strategy, leading engineering teams, evaluating tech solutions for cash transfer systems, and potentially bridging between organizational leadership and technical implementation rather than hands-on coding.
COSTING ENGINEER
A financial engineering role focused on cost estimation and budgeting for custom manufacturing tooling and automation components. Day-to-day involves analyzing technical drawings, calculating part costs, sourcing components, and performing value engineering analyses to optimize fixture designs within budget constraints.
Founder's Associate
A founder-track role focused on data-driven growth strategy and marketing budget allocation across multiple channels (paid ads, influencer programs, email retention). You'll make strategic decisions about where to deploy marketing spend and develop creative strategies alongside the co-founder.
Technical CRM Specialist
Configure and manage marketing automation platforms (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Campaign) to deliver email, SMS, and multi-channel campaigns, using SQL and HTML to customize templates and integrate systems rather than building core software features.
Create and maintain knowledge content for AI chatbots, design conversation flows and service processes in a conversational AI platform, and continuously test and improve dialogue systems. This is a content and process design role rather than traditional software engineering.
Senior Technical Talent Partner - UK
Technical recruiting role focused on full-cycle sourcing and hiring for engineering, product, and research positions. You'll act as a business partner to hiring managers, identifying and evaluating specialized talent in cybersecurity, exploit development, software engineering, and AI/ML fields.
Organic Growth Content Marketer
Execute content marketing and organic growth strategy across SEO, ASO, and CRO by writing, optimizing, and experimenting with content, landing pages, and store listings to drive user acquisition.
Data Scientist - AI Safety
Work on AI safety research and risk mitigation for a rapidly growing voice AI company, applying data analysis and statistical methods to understand model behavior, identify safety issues, and inform safety-focused product decisions.
Praktikum Online-Marketing / Marketing / KI / AI
This internship involves digital marketing strategy and execution across SEO, paid search, social media, and AI optimization. Day-to-day work includes analyzing search trends, creating marketing campaigns, designing web content, and implementing AI tools for optimization.
Brand Protection Specialist (SEO)
Monitor search engines and websites to identify unauthorized use of branded content and intellectual property, investigate infringements, and coordinate enforcement actions with legal and platform partners.
Digital Marketing Manager – CRO & SEO (gn), 12-month parental leave cover with an option to extend
Optimize website performance through SEO, CRO, and content strategy by running A/B tests, building topic clusters, creating organic content, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on data-driven improvements to search visibility and conversion rates.
Werkstudent:in (m/w/d) E-commerce / Marketing DACH
A working-student role managing Shopify e-commerce operations, content creation, and marketing execution for Tony's Chocolonely's DACH region. Day-to-day involves shop optimization, product updates, content writing, and supporting marketing campaigns with some customer service responsibilities.
Manage end-to-end recruitment and onboarding processes for a software company, using HR technology, ATS platforms, and AI tools to source candidates, conduct interviews, and integrate new hires. Requires data analysis and process optimization but no coding.
Acts as a bridge between the web development team and other business units, likely involving technical communication, requirements translation, and cross-functional coordination rather than hands-on coding.
Email Developer
Email Developer role focused on designing, building, and optimizing email campaigns and marketing automation systems. Likely involves HTML/CSS email template development, email client compatibility testing, and collaboration with marketing teams rather than core backend/frontend engineering.
Technical Lead (f/m/d)
A leadership role overseeing technical strategy and team management at a job board platform. Likely involves architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and cross-functional collaboration rather than hands-on coding.