Development Team Lead - Equipment and Project Management

At Rentman, we build a smart and powerful resource management and planning platform for the event and production industry. From small rental companies to high-end event service providers, businesses in over 70 countries use Rentman to plan and execute festivals, concerts, corporate events, and complex productions.

Our customers operate in a highly dynamic environment and face daily challenges around inventory management, crew scheduling, quoting, invoicing, and financial insight. Rentman helps them stay in control and run more profitable businesses.

Rentman has its headquarters in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a second office in Toronto, Canada. Over the past 10 years, we’ve grown into a company of nearly 100 people representing more than 30 nationalities. Our working language is English, and our culture is open, inclusive, and flat. We value curiosity, ownership, and constructive challenge—and we help each other succeed.

Mission of this role

You are the team lead of two of our teams. Each is responsible for their product stream: Equipment planning & tracking and Project Management.

The equipment product is the core of our product suite, our most mature product. It is extensively used by the majority of our customers to plan and track all equipment going to large events. Grow this team so it is able to build the next iteration of this product.

Rentman is adding a third standalone product to its portfolio: project and task management. With this product, our customers keep track of all their tasks and register the time spent on them to keep their projects within budget. Your mission is to make the launch of this product a big success.

You work closely with Product Managers and Tech Owners within clear ownership boundaries. Product defines what we build, Tech Owners guide how we build it, and you ensure teams have the structure, clarity, and support to deliver sustainably.

What are you going to do

• You build and scale strong teams by coaching, hiring, and, when needed, making difficult people decisions. You ensure clear role ownership and focus on placing the right people in the right roles.

• You create predictable delivery by owning planning rhythms, execution cadence, and prioritisation, making capacity, progress, and trade-offs transparent. Sprint budgets and time tracking across features, bugs, and technical debt are in place and visible.

• You partner closely with Product Managers on capacity planning, risks, dependencies, and decision-making, ensuring teams can deliver valuable outcomes without burning out or cutting corners.

• You safeguard product quality by ensuring teams take ownership of defects and work in sustainable ways. You actively strengthen team culture through team weeks, rituals, and shared moments that build trust, alignment, and collaboration.

• Guide Rentman into the AI era! Use it where usable, be critical when needed, and be open to experiment! Take your team with you on this journey.

Essential attributes to be a successful Team Lead

• You have experience leading engineering teams in a scaling SaaS environment and know how to balance people leadership, delivery, and product impact

• You bring at least 3 years of experience as a Team Lead, Engineering Manager, or in a similar role, with a strong track record in coaching, feedback, performance management, and hiring

• You understand Agile and Scrum beyond theory and know how to apply them pragmatically. You are comfortable working cross-functionally with Product and Engineering and help teams align around shared priorities and outcomes

• You are a calm and clear communicator who brings structure without unnecessary bureaucracy

• You have experience improving delivery predictability and team stability, and you are comfortable guiding teams through change, whether driven by growth, reorganisation, or shifting priorities

• You foster psychological safety while maintaining accountability for results

• Experience leading multiple teams or mixed roles (developers and QA) is a plus

What you’ll get

• A leadership role with real impact on team growth, performance, and collaboration, working on a product where quality and reliability truly matter within autonomous teams with clear ownership

• An ambitious, inclusive, diverse international team

• 25 days of paid vacation, plus one extra day off each year up to your 5-year anniversary

• A paid 4-week sabbatical after 5 years to go on an adventure

• Flexible WFH policy & work from anywhere for 4 weeks a year

• A shiny Windows, Linux or Mac of your choice

• An annual training budget to boost your skill

• A pension plan via BrightPensioen

• Access to OpenUp for mental well-being and personal growth

• Sports activities (Rentman football team, squash and padel) and an Urban Sports fitness subscription

• An OV Business card if you live further than 10km away from the office

• A flexible and engaging work environment with free lunches, office perks (PS5, Ping Pong, D&D), legendary karaoke parties, and various team activities

• An amazing office in the heart of Utrecht, Netherlands, at the historical Drift 17