Squad Lead (Portugal, Remote)

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011, it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 300 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors, Sherpany is one of the best scale-ups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

Tasks

What you will be doing:

You will be part of our product department, consisting of 60 people and divided into different squads/sub-teams. In this role you partner with the product owner and coach the team with members from Engineering, UX, UI, DevOps, QA and Data Analysis. You will guide them towards a sustainable continuous pace and support them in their development to maturity. You plan and orchestrate work execution and help our self-organized teams to achieve their goals. With your coaching they are led towards transparency, information exchange and collaboration and engage in continuous improvement efforts. It will also be your task to encourage cross-squad collaboration and communication, build sustainable working relationships with your colleagues and guide them in their personal development.

Requirements

What we will love about you:

• You look forward to supporting our team with your broad know-how and practical experience as a Scrum Master/Squad Leader/Agile Coach or similar.
• In your former jobs you have worked in software development environments.
• You love mentoring a team towards its full potential, by using your empathy, interpersonal communication skills and trying out and coaching agile concepts.
• You are able to fluently speak and write in English when communicating with your team

Your mindset:

• you are a self-starter with a high level of attention to detail
• you have a get-it-done attitude and always aim for the best possible solutions
• you appreciate working in a team with highly motivated and driven people
• comfortable with regular context switches to unblock your team and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• able to stake out short, mid and long-term tasks based on a (multi-) yearly roadmap and assign appropriate priorities

Benefits

How you can imagine us:

You are part of a company with people working from everywhere in the world, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome

• In order to maintain your work-life balance we offer flexible working hours, home office and/or remote-working
• Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education, trainings etc.
• We work with modern Apple products; every employee receives an own MacBook
• Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us, which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a value-centric cooperation

Our recruiting process:

1. Send your online application
2. First interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
3. Interview with VP of Engineering and Chief Product Officer
4. Final interview: Get to know the squad
5. Offer