Highlighted company: Bauer Media Outdoor

Bauer Media Outdoor has five roles live on cord, and every one of them shows the salary.

They joined cord in February 2026. In under eight months their talent team has started 338 conversations with engineers. Here is who they are, and what those engineers would be building.

Who Bauer Media Outdoor are

Bauer Media Outdoor is the out of home advertising business of Bauer Media Group, the family owned media company founded in Hamburg in 1875 and run today in its fifth generation by Yvonne Bauer.

They operate across 12 European markets, including the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and the Nordics and Baltics. In the UK alone they run more than 33,000 roadside and digital sites, and their Adshel Live network is the largest digital out of home network in the country.

Their UK roots go back to Adshel in 1969. Today they are one of the UK's big three out of home media owners, led by Justin Cochrane, with more than 600 people across the UK.

How they perform on cord

The numbers below are from cord, on 6 October 2026.

• Five live roles, and every one publishes a salary band, from £55,000 to £90,000.

• 338 conversations started with engineers since February 2026.

• An 89% average response rate across their live roles.

• Six people on the account.

Five out of five is the number worth noting. Most companies still keep at least one salary back for the first call.

Why engineers stay once they get there

Advertising has become a software problem, and they're the ones building it. Their programmatic platform, LaunchPAD, runs across more than 11,000 digital screens in nine European markets and serves over a billion impressions a month. Buying a billboard is now real time bidding.

There's serious data work. AdAstra, their audience planning platform, is built on anonymised data from more than 40 million devices, with over 1,000 behavioural audience profiles and journey modelling.

A brand new team for AI. Their AI Product Manager and Lead AI Engineer roles sit in a new AI Enablement team, building assistants inside an internal platform called Bauer AI Chat and working out where AI makes the biggest difference across the business.

A new platform, built from the ground up. Their Mid level Software Engineer joins the team building the platform where clients bid for space, manage their creative and see performance in real time. The stack is React, Node, TypeScript, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and PostgreSQL.

The package. 25 days paid holiday. Pension with an employer contribution of up to 8%. A healthcare cash plan, life insurance and income protection. Enhanced maternity and paternity cover. Cycle to work. One to two days a week in their new London office at Euston, part of a Bauer campus bringing audio, outdoor and publishing together.

The team doing the hiring

Six people from Bauer Media Outdoor have access to the account, and between them they have started 338 conversations with engineers on cord since February.

• Michaela Garner, Talent Acquisition Partner. 187 conversations.

• Vincenzo Mantio, Tech Talent Acquisition Partner. 137 conversations, and the person behind their technology roles.

• Katrin Ammazzalorso, Talent Acquisition Partner. 13 conversations.

• Gesa Matyschok, Head of People Attraction.

Five roles, five salary bands, and a team that has been busy since the day they joined.

Highlighted Companies is a series of hand picked companies on cord. Data sourced from cord, October 2026.