Head of Technology

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Head of Technology - Nordics

Location:

Malmö, Sweden

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

Job Reference:

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22

Posted:

23.01.2025

Expiry Date:

09.03.2025

Job Description:

We are an award-winning digital product studio with 125 people in 5 different studios across the globe (London, Malmö, New York, Lisbon, and Tokyo) and 30 people within our Nordics studio. For almost 20 years we have been helping our clients grow by creating innovative, engaging, and beautiful digital products that evoke an emotional response. Humans are at the heart of everything we create and our processes and culture reflect this.

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced technology leader to join our fast-growing engineering team as Head of Technology. You will be responsible for project leadership responsibilities for clients across our studios, as well as leading the tactical agenda and people within the engineering team. This role will be an exciting opportunity to shape the team, technical strategy, and activities for our Nordics team, who are building innovative and impactful products in the digital space.

You will be the main point of contact for all of the technical execution across our projects, work directly with the Executive Leadership Team and report into the Executive Technology & Product Director. You will also have a counterpart in our London studio leading the engineering team there as well as a team in Portugal. The Nordics Technology team currently consists of 9 permanent employees (across iOS, Android, full-stack, and test), as well as freelancers.

This is a dynamic position requiring a broad mixture of project leadership, technical solution architecture, team leadership, building team culture and cohesion, client-facing responsibilities, working on new business opportunities, and getting your hands dirty when required.

Location:

We have a wonderful studio in central Malmö which is very close to station Triangeln. We have two universal studio days a week but lots of the team work from the studio 3-4 times a week anyway. We would expect that you would live in a commutable distance to the studio and if you are based in Copenhagen, we also offer a competitive commuter bonus in addition to your salary to account for the difference in living costs.

Who are we looking for:

You will be:

- Current in your practice: You have solid software development fundamentals and a working understanding of modern, best-practice software architecture and software development practices and workflow. You keep up with the latest trends in technology.
- A clear, confident communicator: You can convey ideas and break down concepts clearly to diverse ranges of stakeholders (verbally, written, and using diagrams where appropriate).
- An experienced project leader: You can lead delivery of multiple software projects from initial scoping and solution architecture all the way through implementation to launch and continuous improvement.
- An experienced team leader: You know how to lead, coach, mentor, and inspire. You have experience leading and hiring technical teams.
- An engineering leader that has emerged organically: A demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility, starting from engineering, up through tech leadership and management over a series of years will be necessary to be successful in the role.
- Resilient: You can handle pressure and work in a dynamic and fast-moving environment.
- Adaptable: You can handle ambiguity, are comfortable switching contexts, and able to apply your practice across a range of industries, different project types, and deliverables.
- Human: You recognize humanity in others and empathize with their concerns.
- Visionary: You want to make great products that affect real people’s lives, at scale.

Leadership Responsibilities:

- You will have shared responsibility across all of the projects within the studio, accountable for how projects are scoped, architected, and executed by the technical members of each team.
- You will be responsible for ensuring our projects are staffed with appropriate people for the jobs to be done.
- You must be comfortable participating in new business development activities, including scoping technical work and pitching to clients.
- You should be comfortable being hands-on to varying degrees (across architecture, high-level design, and development).
- You are expected to be an informed and guiding voice providing technical oversight.
- This role has a heavy component of team leadership, team direction, and thought leadership.
- You will be part of the studio team that determines how we position our offering to the market.

Our full benefits package is available to all permanent employees.

Interested but think your experience doesn’t perfectly align with this job description? That’s ok. We’d still love to hear from you if you feel passionate about this role We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our colleagues, clients, community, and the users of our products.

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