About

Rob Stearn is an experienced Engineering Manager with over 25 years of relevant experience. He is currently working at Cazoo as an Engineering Manager, where he is responsible for leading the engineering team. Prior to joining Cazoo, Rob worked at Moo as an Engineering Manager, where he was responsible for three high-performing teams of engineers that form a ‘tribe’, handling all the post-order functions for MOO. Rob strongly believes that good people build good products and great people build great ones. He focuses on his people’s professional and personal growth, making the biggest positive impact on the quality of their product and ultimately the company's bottom line. Rob is passionate about hiring diversity in all its aspects such as cognitive, age, gender, background, etc., to build balanced teams that resist ‘group think’. He brings people into junior- and mid-level roles and develops them towards becoming seniors. Rob uses proven competency-based behavioral tools such as Lominger to give his people tangible and achievable goals. Under his leadership, the tribe has moved from having domain-specific knowledge siloed in individuals to open documentation and a culture of sharing. Rob encourages his teams to be proud of their work and success but not to the point of competitiveness with other teams. They’ve developed a culture of thinking that it’s better to extend a hand to help rather than succeed at someone's expense. Rob's key achievements are hugely happier stakeholders, a sense of trust throughout MOO in his team's ability to deliver, and regularly high engagement scores, outpacing both company and industry expectations. Before joining MOO, Rob worked at notonthehighstreet.com as a Delivery Manager, where he worked to ensure that the team had everything they needed to build world-class apps and tools. He was responsible for Agile processes, recruitment, pastoral care of the team, flattening the road for their process, and helping the product owner bring the plans of the company to fruition on their supported mobile and TV platforms. Rob is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Mobile technology. He has a proven track record of leading high-performing teams, delivering genuine value to internal and external customers, and adding significantly to the companies' bottom line. Rob is committed to hiring diversity and developing his people towards becoming seniors. He uses proven competency-based behavioral tools to give his people tangible and achievable goals. Rob is passionate about building balanced teams that resist ‘group think’ and encourages his teams to be proud of their work and success but