Location: Oklahoma City, OK
The Vision:
YouVersion is looking for a unique individual with a mixture of people and project management skills. With more than 110 million installs and a vision exceeding 1 billion, the YouVersion team continues to grow and evolve in an effort to appropriately steward the opportunities brought our way. This is a key position on the team offering leadership, coordination and cohesiveness to a dynamic, fast moving, engineering team.
You Are:
- Passionate about the mission of YouVersion: helping people engage with the Bible
- A highly organized individual who has an innate ability to coordinate complex projects
- Able to communicate effectively in person, email, and video with engineers about product details and work through a variety of technical options
- Not intimidated by providing frequent, constructive feedback
- Comfortable diving into the details
- A leader to whom others naturally look to for guidance
You Should:
- Have great communication and time management skills
- Be a servant leader who is willing to do whatever it takes to make the team successful
- Have experience in an agile environment
- Be just as comfortable working with people as you are with technology
- Have recent experience managing and leading people
- Be someone who can coordinate software development sprints while also tackling managerial responsibilities
- Have great interpersonal skills and be a good listener
- Place the success of the organization and mission ahead of individual ideas or goals
- Have a strong work ethic and not be afraid to go the extra mile when the task or deadline calls for it
You Will Be:
- Overseeing the development of each direct report in a high feedback culture with regular performance reviews
- Recruiting and hiring new engineers and helping them assimilate into the team
- Supervise the development team’s technical strategy and roadmap
- Coordinating engineering efforts of backend teams with front end (apps) teams
- Motivating engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems in an effort to quickly and frequently ship new products and features
- Running an agile and iterative project management process across teams, including sprint planning, and regular checkins
- Carrying out the above in a fun, casual atmosphere where everyone takes the mission very seriously, but no one takes themselves very seriously
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Providing regular feedback and project status reports to stakeholders and management
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Partnering with all management and stakeholders of the product and managing execution from concept to production
If you’re convinced you’re the right person for the job, apply here.