Position: Head of Technology Department
Company: Propell Minds
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Our company:**

**Propell Minds** is a young fast-growing company with global ambitions. We belong to Propell ecosystem – group of Scandinavian companies and its global well-recognized partners – dedicated to building a better world by empowering businesses and global growth through data-driven innovation and AI based solutions. 

We work with a wide range of companies from start-ups to enterprise, belonging to different domains such as fintech, maritime, green energy, etc. And what inspires us most – working with modern technologies and creating new products from scratch.  

So, you can become a part of growing company, work with mature colleagues, forget about legacy and maintenance, enjoy modern technologies and creating AI based solutions. You will participate in corporate culture and business shaping, enjoy start-ups’ agility and flexibility supported by mature outsourcing and development practices, human-oriented management team, entrepreneurial spirit and Scandinavia (as soon as travelling will become possible again😊) 

**Position:**

We are currently searching for a **Head of Technology Department** – person to lead the team of Developers, QA, DevOps, Data Engineers. The team is located primarily in Kiev, though will embrace also other Ukrainian cities and other countries. Head of Technology will become part of the Management Team, thus will participate in managerial decisions and initiatives. 

**Primary responsibilities:**
- Identify – what competence will be needed and when  
- Recruit required talents in accordance with demand (as one team with recruiter and PM) 
- Develop people with accordance to employee, company and customer expectations 
- Retain people and keep them happy  
- Manage technical pool of talents – people management, rotations, promotions, organization, scalability, etc. 
- Define requirements to technical positions, design technical evaluation process, do performance evaluation   
- Identify strategic competences that need to be developed within the company, define competence development program for particular period of time 
- Together with HR and other managers develop and enhance people-related processes/practices. 
- Heavily contribute to the corporate culture development 
- Participate in various internal and external initiatives 
- Contribute to pre-sale  

**We expect from you:**
- At least 8 years of experience in IT outsourcing, in several companies 
- Technical background 
- Experience of work in similar role 
- Strong leadership and empathy skills 
- Strong communication and presentational skills 
- Being action and quality-oriented 
- Responsible and loyal, team player 
- English: upper-intermediate / advanced 

**Would be a plus:**
- Experience and willingness to participate in pre-sale 
- Experience and willingness to act as project manager (internal/external projects) 
- Experience of work the distributed, cross-culture, agile environment  

**We offer you:**
- Being part of creating a new business 
- Participation in almost all business processes  
- Modern technologies, new products development, different business domains. 
- Start-up agility combined with mature delivery practices and management team. 
- Strong focus on your personal growth. 
- Flexible working mode (remote/work from office), full remote possibility. 
- Competitive compensation and social package 
- Private Entrepreneurs support 
- Focus on the well-being and human touch. 
- Flat organization where everyone is heard and is invited to contribute. 
- Scandinavian approach to work. 
- Passion and Fun in everything we do.