Washington Frank is extremely pleased to announce that one of our prestigious clients has created a new and exciting opportunity for a Product Development Manager to lead product development team at their information centre in Bielsko-Biala. The Product Development Manager will lead a high-performing, cross-functional team delivering top-tier software solutions.
Reporting to the Technology Director EMEA, the Product Development Manager will have full responsibility of his team in Poland, providing detailed engineering leadership and agile coaching for multiple Scrum teams of highly skilled engineers. The Product Development Manager role is responsible for leading, evaluating and mentoring engineers producing innovative video software solutions.
The recruitment process is open only until 26th of June so please apply before that day
Key Responsibilities:
- Hands on management responsibility of the engineering team
- Providing engineering leadership for multiple Scrum teams
- Coaching individual engineers in order for them to innovate, grow and develop
- Teach teams Scrum and other agile and lean practices
- Actively identify shortfalls and drive improvement
- Contribute to the recruitment of candidates to fill any open positions
- Fosters excellent communication and collaboration with teams in other locations and departments
The ideal candidate will:
- Have professional experience working in a leadership position such as an Project Manager, IT Coach or Team Lead with agile software development teams
- Have previous experience of managing complex solutions deployed both as SaaS using AWS and OnPrem would be of benefit
- Have the ability to work with highperforming teams and challenge them to continuously improve
- Be motivated by working in a continuously changing environment and enjoy helping shape a growing team
- Be able to mentor and provide individual development guidance
- Have the ability to work with both technical and business stakeholders
- Effectively communicate with a global team and help teams to work productively in a distributed environment
Preferred Technical Experience:
- Previous experience in architecting and building web applications using our technology stack LAMP/JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3
- Appreciation of managing open source libraries and components
- Previous experience in mentoring others in the use of mature development practices (e.g. unit TDD/BDD, continuous integration, release management, technical debt
The offer:
- Competitive salary
- Collaboration with truly international team of highly skilled specialists
- IT as well as soft-skill training schemes and professional development programs; initial training in the UK
- Interesting career path in a fast growing international organization
- Employees' benefits package: life insurance, private healthcare - Medicover, MultiSport card, social package
- Flexible working hours
- Frequent social events
- Annual salary reviews
- Interesting challenges as part of ambitious projects