Engineering Director, Quinyx
2+ days a week in office
AI-powered workforce management
Posted today
AI-powered workforce management
201-500 employees
Posted today
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To better the lives of millions of hourly workers with AI-driven solutions.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent leadership, motivation and team development skills, able to cross boundaries and collaboratively drive excellence through positive change. Cohesive leadership to ensure development teams are aligned across the department
- Excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible & consultative approach
- Ability to think strategically whilst achieving results in the immediate area of responsibility and drive strategic and change initiatives to success
- Ability to think creatively and exploit best practice, emerging technologies and fast-paced innovation
- Able to adapt to a changing business and market place, demonstrable ability to take a holistic view to support Corporate as well as departmental strategic objectives and underwrites production excellence through KPIs and best practice across the group
- Demonstrates sound judgement and decision making, with focus spanning business, shareholders and performance of the company in addition to the department
- Ability to drive change programmes across the business, the department and ensure the product area is aligned to achieve best results for the company and shareholders
- Pragmatic, objective, resilient, transferrable, balanced, and able to navigate and manage product area contention to the benefit of the group
- Externally focussed and highly pragmatic in order to drive results for Quinyx, company performance, shareholders, the PD function, our teams and then their area of focus
What the job involves
- The Engineering Director is responsible for the delivery and development within a specific product area of Quinyx
- Each product area is led by a Product Director and Engineering Director together, who are both responsible and accountable for the roadmap and delivery in their respective area.
- Each area has a number of multidisciplinary delivery teams which will be led and guided by the engineering director from an engineering point of view.
- A team typically consists of one product manager, 2 backend engineers, 2 front end engineers and 1 or 2 QA engineers and has design capacity.
- The Engineering Director is responsible for the engineering part of the team where the Product Director is responsible for the Product Management and Design capacity of a team
- The Engineering Director reports to the CTPO and will have between 20 to 40 engineers in their product area.
- We have a hybrid working set up and therefore you will be required to attend our London office twice per week
- Member of the R&D Senior Management Team (SMT), and responsible for the management of the software development & delivery of a product area, contributing to the achievement of company OKRs
- Approve/challenge product proposals as a member of the SMT
- Oversees all development initiatives within the product area. Works together with the Product Director to establish the roadmap which will be balanced between long and short term goals and includes both functional and non functional items
- Uses in-depth understanding and experience of software development lifecycle methodologies to enable the product area to deliver complex, integrated products at pace
- Define the Product Area Development team’s procedural strategies, driving the implementation of best practices and utilising appropriate measures and KPIs to ensure production efficacy
- Work with the Engineering Managers providing expectations of the required amount of resources and their quality. Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to resolve resourcing conflicts and performance challenges in case those arise
- Responsible for the budget for a 20 to 50+ strong team of frontend, backend and QA engineers across multiple offices and countries
- Provide leadership, direction and mentoring to the Product Development teams across multiple areas & locations, including offshore. Ensure that there is a scalable and repeatable delivery process which is clearly communicated and followed across the various development teams
- Work with the CTPO and R&D SMT to understand the company vision, and contribute to the overall product strategy, integration and cross and upsell
- Highly commercial, Accountable for the contribution and impact on Quinyx P&L and performance of the Product Areas
Salary benchmarks
Our take
After frustration surrounding workforce management issues, Quinyx was born. The software company provides cloud-based solutions for management, planning and scheduling and is designed to help businesses of all sizes better their workforce operations, reduce labour costs and ultimately, improve their employee engagement.
Founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Quinyx has since expanded globally and is now a leading workforce management company helping more than 1000 organisations around the world, including Mcdonald's, DHL, Domino's, Rituals, and Odeon.
Quinyx has made several acquisitions, with the latest being Concrete, a leading employee engagement, store operations, and task management platform. Through these acquisitions, Quinyx has been able to bring an unmatched AI-powered workforce and task management solution to the market, providing organisations with impressive improvements across their operations.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$50m
LATE VC
Jan 2019
$25m
LATE VC
Total funding: $103m
Company benefits
- Flexible hours
- Hybrid working
- Your choice of hardware
- Regular meetups
- Yearly Goal Trips
- Enhanced vacation allowance
- 3 days off for voluntary activies
- Pension and insurance
- Yearly contribution to your health, personal development, and home office
- A yearly development plan, salary review, and clear objectives
Company values
- Passion: The only way to do great things is to love what you do
- Quality: We think long term and build sustainable solutions
- Simplicity: We work hard, not only to come up with the solution, but to make life easier for our users
- Innovation: Anyone can follow. We lead
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Erik Fjellborg
(CEO)Previously a Board Member at Ung Företagsamhet and Fortnox, also worked as an Advisor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
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