In A Nutshell
Responsible for project management guidance, people management, and mentoring to improve the team’s effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of engineers and technical staff to enable their potential and help shape the growth of the team while also ensuring timely execution of team deliverables and helping to guide their resourcing.
- Work with our Director of Technology to help understand the priority of technical asks and drive the engineering roadmap for the assigned areas.
- Ensure timely execution of team deliverables and help to guide their resourcing.
- Perform Scrum Master role to manage agile sprints and work with team to identify and improve processes continuously.
- Lead management of our third-party development partners to implement project features, guiding the technical process and working with the project team from scoping to delivery.
- Lead execution of internal team initiatives around process improvement and team planning.
Skillset
- 2 to 5 years of experience working on and leading software teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Direct people management experience and demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams to achieve common goals.
- Project management skills with demonstrated experience leading multi-person technical projects.
- Planning and organizational skills that result in successful implementation and follow-through.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
- Must be eligible to work in South Africa.