Position: Head of R/D
Company: kit/code
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

R&D Team focuses on finding new substantial growth levers for the projects within the company’s ecosystem through rapid, data-informed experimentation.
Together with C-level executives they identify new business opportunities and create MVPs to test hypotheses, bringing together marketing, product, engineering, and analytical expertise.

**You will have the following tasks:**
— Analysis of the market and competing products and trends
— Forming the backlog of business opportunities and superficial analysis of it
— Establish short and long-term research and development strategies considering the current and future Company needs
— Be responsible for building the model of MVPs
— Working with the budget in the direction of development
— Influence the marketing and product strategy
— R&D team hiring and management (maintaining motivation level and ensuring efficient work).
— Working with internal and external contractors that will be necessary for the needs of R&D
— Interaction with the different departments (product, analytics, marketing, legal) to achieve goals

**It is important for us that you have:**
— Strong background in product management or marketing
— Experience working with web products / mobile applications
— Knowledge of qualitative assessment methods of product changes effectiveness
— Experience in generating product hypotheses and their validation
— Strong analytical & scenarios modelling skills with creative approach to solving non-standard problems
— Entrepreneur mindset, ability to generate ideas and think out of the box
— Delivery focused — you are driven to deliver tangible outcomes and you achieve this through ruthless prioritization, swiftly tackling challenges, and providing clear direction to the team
— Experience in managing the R&D team or people management experience (at least 5 people)
— Strong leadership, collaboration, interpersonal, and decision-making skills
— The English language proficiency — upper-intermediate level and higher.

**We expect that during the first 3-6 months you will:**
— Start new R&D stream in the company, create the strategy of its development and configure all the processes within the team
— Gather the team for the needs of R&D (internal/external resources)
— Start testing the main hypotheses and working on the first MVPs
— Built effective collaboration with other departments of the company

**We offer:**
— Flexible working hours (start your day at 11 or earlier)
— Fully remote
— Unlimited payed vacations, days off, sick leaves (everything as it should be)
— Cool social benefits
— PE accounting and support
— Corporate English lessons
— Online corporate events to support your spirit during current historical times


**You have already got 50% of success if you are reading this.
So do not hesitate and send your CV, if you think that this vacancy perfectly matches with your experience!**