Digital media and marketplaces across 10 European countries
Alma Media operates a sprawling portfolio of digital media, recruitment, and marketplace properties across Finland and Eastern Europe, serving 1,001–5,000 employees. The tech stack reveals a hybrid-modernization pattern: heavy reliance on legacy enterprise systems (SAP S/4HANA, Dynamics 365, Service Cloud) alongside modern development tooling (React, TypeScript, Go, Python, AWS/GCP). Active hiring is concentrated in product and sales roles with senior-level emphasis, suggesting a push to scale SaaS offerings and improve margins on existing properties rather than major platform rewrites.
Notable leadership hires: Lifecycle Lead
Alma Media is a publicly listed digital media and services company headquartered in Helsinki with operations spanning 10 European countries. In Finland, the company publishes financial and professional media (Kauppalehti, Talouselämä), consumer titles (Iltalehti), and operates digital services and marketplaces including recruitment (Jobly), real estate (Etuovi), and automotive (Nettiauto, Nettimoto). Internationally, Alma runs leading recruitment platforms in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Croatia. The business model combines subscription and media advertising revenue with SaaS-style services, requiring ongoing management of complex regulatory content and multi-market compliance.
React, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, and SQL for development; AWS, GCP, and Azure for infrastructure; SAP S/4HANA for enterprise resource planning; Salesforce ecosystem (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud) for CRM and marketing automation; Microsoft 365 and Intune for endpoints.
Current projects include marketing automation development, AI-driven customer journey optimization, SaaS sales acceleration, DevOps and monitoring improvements, subscription lifecycle development, and usage-based revenue recognition systems.
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