Description

• Ensures that team aligns work with business priorities.
• Works with technical lead and product owners to ensure staff alignment is appropriate to address work demand. Identifies and clears roadblocks for the team.
• Makes technical contributions without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
• Collaborates with the Product Owner to set team’s priorities.
• Aligns the team’s work to Product Owner priorities and ensures efficient delivery.
• Partners effectively with the Product Owner to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap.
• Works with technical lead to evaluate individual performance.
• Conducts regular one-on-one meetings and performance reviews.
• Identifies single points of failure in alignment of people, knowledge, or systems, and works to resolve them.
• Communicates timeline, scope, and technical concerns to upper management.
• Collaborates with peers to deliver cross-team projects.
• Identifies areas of strategic technical debt and provides cost/benefits analysis for eliminating this debt, as well as suggested timeline for how to prioritize it.
• Develops, reviews, and recommends practices and methods to improve workflow, communication and collaboration for stakeholders.
• Assists leadership with special projects.
• As a member of the leadership team, demonstrates through decisions, actions, and words a commitment to OverDrive’s mission, sustainability, and community outreach initiatives.

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
• 2 years of experience in management leading technical teams.
• Experience must include working with the following programming languages: Swift, Kotlin, Brightscript, Cordova, Vue.js, and Nuxt.js.