Job Description
Stepstone is a leading online job board in Germany, dedicated to connecting job seekers with their ideal employment opportunities. As a major player in the German job market, we had a key role in facilitating millions of job placements across various sectors and industries.
We are proud to be part of The Stepstone Group, a global expert in job-tech platforms. Being part of a global team allows us to leverage cutting-edge technology, data, and industry expertise to enhance our services and continuously innovate our technology to meet the job market's needs.
Join our team and you'll be responsible for ensuring the delivery team has everything they need to deliver valuable outcomes. You will ensure that the team understands the business needs, challenges and opportunities, and create a culture where the team proactively collaborates to find solutions, self-organise and drive action.
Working in the commercial product technology team as people manager, you are responsible for the operational ownership of the system within their business area of your portfolio.
As a leader in Tech, you work with other members of the Tech community, such as Staff Engineers and Architects, to support the creation of a thriving engineering culture within your team and support an engineering approach in line with our Technology, cloud/hosting and architecture strategies. And as a role model in the Stepstone Group, you embody the company values and continuously advocate for and on behalf of your team, regularly communicating updates, recognising successes of the team, and promoting the Tech community.
You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.
Your responsibilities
- Technical operational ownership – compliance to NFRs, cost, quality, service delivery and integrity of systems in scope, and People leadership and career development of team members.
- Communication and Alignment: Facilitate communication and alignment among team members, departments, and stakeholders
- Decision-Making: Participate in decision-making processes for projects, resources, and technology.
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks in engineering project, and Budget Planning and Resource Management; Contribute to budget planning and effectively manage resources.
- Aligning with the Staff Engineer to drive team focus on engineering health and quality including: quality and technical excellence, security, GDPR, Compliance, Ownership of Products and domains and NFRs.
- People Leader: able to line manage others in line with the organizational policies and adaptable to each individual needs, with a focus on team growth, engagement, ownership and belonging.
- Good Communicator: clearly connects and communicates with developers, product owners, stakeholders, and senior leaders, and Good Collaborator: able to lead by example in collaboration with the team, their support network, and their stakeholders.
- Emotional Intelligence and Inclusive Mindset: able to communicate reasoning in clear and simple terms to a diverse audience, flexibility to take different viewpoints and experiences, committed to their own personal and professional growth and that of others, behaves with dignity and respect towards everyone.
- Delivery focused: focuses on the delivery of value efficiently and iteratively and is responsible for fulfilling the team's commitments.
- Technology Mindset: Understands the technology ecosystem and SDLC, and can work with it and the team to define technical solutions that support Stepstone to meet its business goals.
We're a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you're with us. Because your job shouldn't take over your life, it should enrich it.
Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- 30 days of holidays + 2 extra days for Christmas and New Year's Eve
- Hybrid working model
- Company pension scheme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance Cover
- Volunteering days
- Job bike
- Discounted parking or job ticket
- In-house gym
- In-house barista
- And you can bring your dog to the office
Our commitment
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.
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