Position: Engineering Director (Outsourcing / Outstaffing Company)
Company: Binary Studio
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

👉 Mission & Purpose:
Binary Studio's Delivery Department is focused on advancing the company's technical progress and shaping business strategy through involvement in people management. As a strategist, you will play a key role in developing world-class engineers, solving clients' business problems, and creating in-house products. Your ideas will be highly valued and have a significant impact on the entire company.

👉 Role Summary:
Engineering Director is responsible for setting strategic direction for delivery management, defining and implementing standards and processes, overseeing teams across a broad portfolio of accounts, and successfully implementing recovery for project crisis situations. You will have a proven ability to successfully deliver projects (10+ team members, $10m+ revenue). 

You have strong consulting skills, and you build strong relationships with both clients and all parts of the business agency to define viable approaches/methodologies in line with relevant industry standards and best practices. Furthermore, you will represent the delivery team within the business and ensure their views are made clear to the executive management team. You will ensure the individuals within delivery management are aligned and function as a team.

Attitude is every bit as important as skills and experience. You will bring an energy and passion to the role that inspires those in the department and within the wider agency. You need to be a fantastic communicator, both internally and with clients and other stakeholders.

You will also be responsible for the engineering culture of the company, enabling the skill set and maturity growth of the engineering department, creating global IDPs (individual development plans) for engineers and mentoring leaders and other managers.

👉 BHAG Company Goals:
• Growth of the core business (outsourcing / outstaffing)
• Our state of the art, nation-wide education project “Binary Studio Academy” is the #1 education project in CEE region
• Portfolio of own software products

👉 As part of the interview, we'll check on your fit with our values:
• Student Always - we share our knowledge & educate the team (e.g. our Binary Studio Academy) and are constant learners ourselves
• Leadership & Expertise - we strive for top-notch results in everything we do and are not afraid to think outside the box of our roles
• Ownership & Initiative - we evaluate Binarians’ performance by the number of things they take ownership over and deliver
• No Asshole - we don’t work with arrogant people

👉 Expected Knowledge:
• 8+ years of relevant IT experience, 5+ years of experience in hiring, developing, and managing high-performing development teams
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, system design and architecture
• Extensive background in development and delivering complex projects throughout the lifecycle
• Experience leading, mentoring, and managing engineering teams and team leaders
• Management experience in outsourcing/outstaffing companies (50-100 employees)
• Strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Fluent English
• Understanding of agency finance models and operations
• Strong communication skills, ability to manage client relationships
• Strong leadership
• Experience with managing critical and complex customer situations or incidents
• Strong service delivery, time, project, and priority management skills
• Resource management experience
• Mobile development experience (optional)
• Regular speaker in public conferences / courses (optional)

👉 Reasons to join Binary Studio:
• No bureaucracy: autonomy in decision-making after the probation period is over
• Opportunity to hone your skills on real problems
• Possibility to create processes and products from scratch
• Awesome young, engaged and motivated team