What are the responsibilities and job description for the Managing Director, Software Engineering - Build position at Slalom Build?
About Us
Slalom Build is a highly scalable, high-velocity Build as a Service firm. We work with clients in a flexible, collaborative, and repeatable methodology to create custom technology solutions for their most impactful initiatives and to accelerate their digital transformation journey. Over 1500 Builders strong, distributed across eleven dynamic cities, our innovation hubs attract the type of people who contribute to thriving teams. By placing builders in close proximity to clients – as well as their cultural and technology cohorts – we can assure the quality, versatility, and speed that product delivery demands, along with the elasticity and scale to tailor to individual client needs.
Slalom Build leverages a foundation of innovation inherited from Slalom, a Seattle-based firm that set out in 2001 to disrupt and redefine management consulting. Now 13,000 professionals strong around the globe, Slalom is deeply engaged with some of the world’s most influential, change-making enterprises. Learn more at slalombuild.com.
Who You’ll Work With
At Slalom Build we co-create modern technology and software products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. We choose to imagine things made better, and then set out on a journey to realize what’s possible. By blending design, product engineering, analytics, and automation, we build the custom-built software and data products of tomorrow.
Your Impact
As a Managing Director for Slalom Build you will:
You have spent your career learning to be the best at your craft and diving into technology building in many different forms. You long for the days of heads down creation, but now you show up to work every day excited about building and leading teams, helping them grow and be the best. You have mastered the art of working with potential and current clients to propose and bring together the best teams to solve their technology challenges.
You are a player coach. You routinely surprise your team with your technology relevance, delivery experience and your geeky side. You aren’t afraid to crack open Jira and you know how to explain what a story point is. You’ve always loved building and you are passionate about advancing the craft and co-creating with amazing clients.
Your Job
Day-to-day you will:
30% Lead, 30% Sell, 20% Strategize, 20% Operate
Your Team
You will be joining a high performing team that will both push and support you. You will have direct responsibility for a team of software engineers with diverse backgrounds and experience levels. You will be responsible for the culture and connectedness of the entire team in your build center, regardless of whom they report to.
More About Slalom Build
We are engineers, makers, planners, architects, and designers. We choose to imagine things made better, and then set out on a journey to realize what’s possible. We’ll never trade the upside of wonder for the comfort of the familiar or the safety of convention.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
Slalom Build is a highly scalable, high-velocity Build as a Service firm. We work with clients in a flexible, collaborative, and repeatable methodology to create custom technology solutions for their most impactful initiatives and to accelerate their digital transformation journey. Over 1500 Builders strong, distributed across eleven dynamic cities, our innovation hubs attract the type of people who contribute to thriving teams. By placing builders in close proximity to clients – as well as their cultural and technology cohorts – we can assure the quality, versatility, and speed that product delivery demands, along with the elasticity and scale to tailor to individual client needs.
Slalom Build leverages a foundation of innovation inherited from Slalom, a Seattle-based firm that set out in 2001 to disrupt and redefine management consulting. Now 13,000 professionals strong around the globe, Slalom is deeply engaged with some of the world’s most influential, change-making enterprises. Learn more at slalombuild.com.
Who You’ll Work With
At Slalom Build we co-create modern technology and software products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. We choose to imagine things made better, and then set out on a journey to realize what’s possible. By blending design, product engineering, analytics, and automation, we build the custom-built software and data products of tomorrow.
Your Impact
As a Managing Director for Slalom Build you will:
- Bring Slalom Build’s modern approach to product creation to your Build Center
- Create a thriving culture of builders who show up every day ready to dive in, excited to build world-changing technology products with our clients
- Co-create the build-as-a-service movement
You have spent your career learning to be the best at your craft and diving into technology building in many different forms. You long for the days of heads down creation, but now you show up to work every day excited about building and leading teams, helping them grow and be the best. You have mastered the art of working with potential and current clients to propose and bring together the best teams to solve their technology challenges.
You are a player coach. You routinely surprise your team with your technology relevance, delivery experience and your geeky side. You aren’t afraid to crack open Jira and you know how to explain what a story point is. You’ve always loved building and you are passionate about advancing the craft and co-creating with amazing clients.
Your Job
Day-to-day you will:
- Partner with sales and account teams to share the Slalom Build story to clients and drive pursuits from qualification to kick-off.
- Collaborate with the entire leadership team to build teams and ensure successful project delivery.
- Directly manage the software engineering team in your Build Center.
- Engage actively with our recruiting team with candidates in our recruiting pipeline.
- Drive the culture and connection across teams in your Build Center.
- Oversee the operations of your Build Center.
- Explore, define and execute our ongoing strategy with our leadership team.
30% Lead, 30% Sell, 20% Strategize, 20% Operate
Your Team
You will be joining a high performing team that will both push and support you. You will have direct responsibility for a team of software engineers with diverse backgrounds and experience levels. You will be responsible for the culture and connectedness of the entire team in your build center, regardless of whom they report to.
More About Slalom Build
We are engineers, makers, planners, architects, and designers. We choose to imagine things made better, and then set out on a journey to realize what’s possible. We’ll never trade the upside of wonder for the comfort of the familiar or the safety of convention.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
Salary : $350
