Akeneo: The Product Experience Company

About the Company

Akeneo is the product experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM). Akeneo empowers business leaders with software, education, and an engaged community all focused on the practice of product experience management.

Leading brands, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, including Chico's, CarParts.com, TaylorMade Golf, Rail Europe, Kering, and more trust Akeneo to scale their commerce initiatives. Using Akeneo's intelligent Product Cloud, companies can create elevated product experiences with user-friendly and AI-powered product data enrichment, management, syndication, and supplier data onboarding, and an app marketplace and partner network to meet business and buyer needs.

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Company Name

Akeneo: The Product Experience Company

Job Title

Value Engineer

Job Description

Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere.
We're all about experience - from the best-in-class product we build to the inspiring environment we create for our employees. You'll grow in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise will make an impact from day one. Our flexible work model empowers you to thrive, balancing professional success with personal fulfillment. At Akeneo, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values open communication, shared successes, and meaningful relationships.
Learn more about our culture and values via our Career page.

Job description
The Value Engineer partners with Customer Success, Professional Services, and the company to deliver our customers the best value-driven approach. Through different frameworks and methods, the value engineer analyzes and acts to help identify business objectives and how to tackle them into the Akeneo Product Cloud
Your responsibilities:
Value Strategy and Alignment: Partner with customer success and all the customer-facing roles to define overarching value strategies for high-value opportunities, aligning solution benefits with customers’ strategic objectives and industry-specific challenges.
Business Case Development and ROI Analysis: Lead the creation of comprehensive business value reviews (including ROI models) that quantify economic impact, communicate potential gains, and secure executive buy-in for the proposed solutions.
Customer retention: Assist in a proactive approach to the CSM team to tackle customer at-risk situations, helping define the strategy and deliver the value.
Executive-Level Presentations and Recommendations: Prepare and deliver boardroom-quality presentations that articulate the solution’s business impact, financial rationale, and strategic alignment, effectively engaging executives and C-level stakeholders.
Industry and Domain Expertise: Develop tailored value propositions and use cases by leveraging deep domain knowledge, staying current with industry trends, and integrating best practices into solution recommendations.
Internal Training and Enablement: Deliver internal training on new practices that the team will develop and ensure that the CSM team correctly applies new processes and approaches.
Continuous Improvement of Value Engineering Practice: Contribute to the evolution of the Value Engineering function by developing methodologies, tools, and frameworks that streamline value-based engagements and support a scalable, repeatable approach.

Qualifications
Previous experience in value engineering, management consulting, or a similar strategic advisory role, with a proven track record of delivering ROI-driven insights for complex customer engagements.
Ability to grasp complex product functionalities, collaborate with technical teams on solution integrations, and communicate product-related benefits in business terms.
Skilled in leveraging analytics platforms, spreadsheets, and software to gather insights, visualise data, and create boardroom-quality reports and executive presentations.

Life at Akeneo

Culture
Diverse, cross-cultural team.
Office parties, team offsites.
Top-notch 8-week onboarding programme for new teammates, including live presentations, online courses you can take at your own pace, and an exhaustive checklist with all the resources, calls-to-action and support contacts for a smooth integration into the company.

General
Competitive package and complementary health insurance.

Time off
⏰ Flexible working hours and hybrid setup (up to 3-4 days per week working from home).
16 weeks paid maternity leave (33 days paid leave if you are the second parent).
Gradual Return to Work program after maternity or adoption leave.
Work from Anywhere Scheme - Explore the possibility of working from anywhere in the world for up to 30 days per year.

Health & Wellness
Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choice.
Massage sessions offered regularly and at a reduced price.

Equipment
Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub...
A €500 personal hybrid working allowance to maximize your home office environment.

Professional Development
Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (ie. Meetups) or industry events
A €1,000 learning budget per employee per year.

Perks & Discounts
Get your Swile lunch card funded at 50% by the company.
Receive a 50% discount on the transportation pass of your choice.
Comité Social et Economique: advantages and deductions on cultural activities, entertainment etc.
Take advantage of our company crèche whether you need a nursery spot (subject to availability), emergency childcare, or care for Wednesdays and school vacations.
A €45/month Sustainable Transportation Allowance to support eco-friendly commuting options such as public transportation, biking, or carpooling if eligible.

Corporate Responsibility
Employee Volunteering program: give back to the community with two days per year dedicated to supporting the charities of your choice.
Join one or several of our Employee Resource Groups and take an active part in promoting diversity and inclusion within our company.
Diversity & Inclusion: Akeneo provides and ensures a safe work environment for everyone, regardless of seniority, gender identity, and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other characteristics. Akeneo is deeply anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, and inclusive. We create the right conditions for you to feel safe and be yourself!

Interview process
Say hi! If your application has caught our attention, you will receive an invitation to a 30-minute conversation with one of our Talent Partners, where you’ll learn more about the role and about Akeneo.
Meet your future manager! This 45-60 minute interview will allow you to go in more depth into what the role entails and discuss your experience and skills.
Meet the team! Project yourself into the reality of the position and confirm our company culture fits you with one or two additional interviews with your future colleagues or stakeholders.
Sign your offer!

At all stages of your recruitment process, our Talent Acquisition team is committed to giving you an update in a one-week time frame.

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Paris, France

On site

17-02-2025

Company Name

Akeneo: The Product Experience Company

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere.

We’re all about experience - from the best-in-class product we build to the inspiring environment we create for our employees. You’ll grow in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise will make an impact from day one. Our flexible work model empowers you to thrive, balancing professional success with personal fulfillment. At Akeneo, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values open communication, shared successes, and meaningful relationships.

Learn more about our culture and values via our Career page.

Job Description

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer with a strong bias towards action to join us. Our organisation is structured similarly to AWS, with each Product Line operating independently under a Single Threaded Owner (STO) at VP level. Within each Product Line, multiple Area Single Threaded Owners (Area-STOs) at Director level oversee several Impact Teams. Each Impact Team, led by an Impact Owner, comprises approximately eight engineers, designers and PMs who work autonomously, following their own processes and methodologies.

This Senior Engineer role will contribute to one of our various Impact Teams, which focus on different areas of our product. The specific team will be determined based on your performance and interests during the general interview process (see below). Reporting directly to your chosen team's Impact Owner, who is either a Senior Product Manager or an Engineering Manager, you will collaborate closely with teams of engineers, product managers, designers and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Technical Excellence: Design and implement robust, scalable software and infrastructure as code (IaC) solution for complex problems (e.g., designing and implementing a new service outside of the existing monolith to handle product data enrichment, improving system scalability and performance, implementing IaC changes via Terraform)
Impact & Customer Centricity: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship solutions to our customer problems (e.g., creating a prototype of a possible solution to a customer issues after participating in a customer call)
Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code (e.g., refactoring a legacy module to improve code readability and reduce technical debt)
Team Work: Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other developers (e.g., reviewing pull requests and suggesting improvements in algorithm efficiency or code structure)
Mentorship: Mentor software engineers and contribute to the growth of the engineering team (e.g., pairing with software engineers on complex tasks and organising knowledge-sharing sessions on best practices)
Debugging & Optimisation: Troubleshoot, debug, and optimise application performance (e.g., identifying and resolving bottlenecks in database queries to improve overall system response time)
Innovation: Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development (e.g., researching and proposing the adoption of new technologies like GraphQL for API development)


Qualifications

Experience: You have 6+ years of experience in hands-on software development, with a strong background in building SaaS solutions. Preferably PHP, Go, Python, Typescript and React. Experience with infrastructure and reliability, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog.
Track Record: You have a history of delivering impact end-to-end as well as taking ownership of projects.
Technical Expertise: You possess in-depth knowledge of software development principles, understanding of infrastructure principles and have successfully built solutions that scale as well as working within complex monoliths.
Communication Skills: You can effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and work very well within a diverse team.
Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, impact focused environment and can handle uncertainties and changing requirements.
Mentoring Skills: You have demonstrated that you can mentor and grow others in previous roles, guiding less experienced engineers through challenges so they can deliver impact.


Life at Akeneo

Culture

Diverse, cross-cultural team.

Office parties, team offsites.

Top-notch 8-week onboarding programme for new teammates, including live presentations, online courses you can take at your own pace, and an exhaustive checklist with all the resources, calls-to-action and support contacts for a smooth integration into the company.

General

Competitive package and complementary health insurance.

Time off

⏰ Flexible working hours and hybrid setup (up to 3-4 days per week working from home).

25 days holiday per calendar year in addition to Public Holidays.

16 weeks (France) / 26 weeks (UK) paid maternity leave - (30-33 days paid leave if you are the second parent).

Gradual Return to Work program after maternity or adoption leave.

Work from Anywhere Scheme - Explore the possibility of working from anywhere in the world for up to 30 days per year.

Health & Wellness

Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choice.

Equipment

Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub...

A €500/£450 personal hybrid working allowance to maximize your home office environment.

Professional Development

Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (i.e. Meetups) or industry events

A €/£1,000 learning budget per employee per year.

Perks & Discounts

Get your Swile lunch card funded at 50% by the company (France only).

Comité Social et Economique: advantages and deductions on cultural activities, entertainment etc. (France only.)

Take advantage of our company crèche whether you need a nursery spot (subject to availability), emergency childcare, or care for Wednesdays and school vacations. (France only.)

A €45/£80 per month Sustainable Transportation Allowance to support eco-friendly commuting options such as public transportation, biking, or carpooling if eligible.

Corporate Responsibility

Employee Volunteering program: give back to the community with 2 days per year dedicated to supporting the charities of your choice.

Join one or several of our Employee Resource Groups and take an active part in promoting diversity and inclusion within our company.

Diversity & Inclusion: Akeneo provides and ensures a safe work environment for everyone, regardless of seniority, gender identity, and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other ...

Paris, France

Hybrid

07-03-2025