Are you a manager looking to put your people-growth skills come first?
Are you a team player excited to make an impact on 350+ developers?
Were looking for an enthusiastic guild master to lead our 3 technical guilds in Israel AT&T R&D center: Backend, Frontend and DevOps.
What are some of the things you do on a day-to-day basis?
Develop content items (internal and external meetups, blogs, workshops and internal posts) with developers from all business units, in Israel and in US
Mentor and support developers with their professional and personal growth during the internal sessions or blogs know to handle each one differently and assess what help they need
Manage indirectly 3 guild councils: Backend, Frontend and DevOps
Define the path forward in terms of technology and knowledge what is important for our developers to know? Which areas needs to be investigated?
Build new types of activities and events.
Document software patterns, best practices and other items.
Build the guilds brand in the organization and in the Israel industry.
Constantly look for ways to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration between developers from different groups.
Attend conferences and external meetups and keep an eye on the industry from technology and guilds management angle.
Promoting cross site initiatives (e.g. GuildFest, Code Katas or Hackathons).
Find relevant study cases to be shared in the guild.
Report statuses to the site management.
Each day will look different!
What are things you will not do?
Infrastructure or coding.
Enforce standards.
Manage people directly.
Requirements: You are a people person, yet keen on technology. You breath technology and you are up to date with emerging trends and best practices in software development.
You are highly organized and thorough; You are well familiar with tools and frameworks to enhance productivity.
You enjoy challenges and hard-to-achieve goals.
You have track record of managing without authority (matrix management or other).
You have managed people currently or in the past but you havent lost the need to feel the ground yourself.
You have proven in the past that you can engage and inspire others.
You are a constant learner.
You are assertive, but ego-less.
You get things done; You keep your eye on the ball even when there are multiple balls in parallel.
You are happy when others succeed; You know to shout-out when needed.
You are able to have a high level view, but you can dig into a technological area with details.
You have presentation skills and you enjoy knowledge sharing.
You are an effective reviewer and you know to ask the right questions.
You have excellent spoken and written English.
Advantage: You managed a technology guild in one of the high tech companies.
Advantage: You have led a Hackathon before or other technology events.
Significant advantage: You spoke in more than one technical conference or moderated one.
Significant advantage: You regularly write a blog.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
At least 10 years of hands-on experience.
This position is open to all candidates.