Engineering Team Lead - Design System

How you can help make a better world of work

Culture Amp is a rapidly growing company empowering our customers to build Culture First companies. Our market-leading, category-defining Engagement product has been the engine of our success. In 2019 we added an award winning performance management solution to our portfolio. These two products together enable us to deliver highly differentiated, powerful and industry-leading capabilities to our customers.

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead to lead our Design System team, which owns the Kaizen design system and component library. This a rare opportunity to take the lead of a mature and well-resourced design system team where one designer and four other engineers come together to support 20 product teams with a design system that is universally valued - from the individual engineers who build our product all the way up to our company's C-suite. Kaizen drives not just consistency and efficiency in Culture Amp's UI design and development, but is also the nexus of our accessibility efforts, which aim to have our entire product suite meeting WCAG AA by the end of this year!In this high impact role, you will guide a team of engineers and designers in delivering high priority outcomes to all our internal product teams.
Our Team Lead role consists of three key areas:
People Leadership, Technical Leadership and Delivery. You will lead your engineers by helping to solve complex problems and remove blockers so they can do their best work! You will lead change management across the organization with your product manger and ensure communication at scale is on point!
Software Engineering at Culture Amp is an inclusive practice distributed across cross-functional, lightweight Agile teams, which are remote-friendly, and all of which embrace flexible work arrangements. You will be surrounded by talented engineers, and a cross-functional team including product management, design and delivery. You have great senior leadership support to make some large changes to all our in-house product teams.

In part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

• Improve the overall delivery system your team works in and others work in using the tooling your team is accountable for
• Design innovative technical solutions which balance tradeoffs to deliver on business needs
• Clearly communicate technical solutions with your team, peers, and other stakeholders
• Mentor and develop a team of engineers, fostering their growth into future technical leaders
• Prioritize the product roadmap, sequence initiatives, and share timelines with stakeholders
• Collaborate across a cross-functional team to work out and achieve technical and product vision goals

You have

• Solid understanding of systems architecture and programming
• Experience building React component library reused by multiple teams with high quality standards (accessibility, responsiveness, strong types, )
• Experience managing stakeholders and leading engineers, complemented by strong written and verbal communication skills
• Extensive experience in change management and communication of change at scale

You are

• A technical leader who can balance hands on technical skills whilst empowering and coaching engineers.
• A full-stack engineer who is comfortable contributing to both the front-end and back-end codebases.
• Focused on outcome and biased towards action
• Open to receiving feedback and giving feedback to help others grow