Agile Team Manager - Website and Customer Portal

Agile Team Manager - Website and Customer Portal teams

*This position requires relocation to the Netherlands*

Our engineering department consists of around 90 engineers, working in small scrum teams. Each team has end-to-end responsibility for a specific product or part of our architecture. Our teams are distributed geographically, and we work remote-first. Twice per year, each team meets up in person at our HQ in Amsterdam.

The atmosphere is informal and relaxed, yet highly motivating, place to work. Our organizational structure is flat, and we value independence and entrepreneurship and that is why you will have some of the most inspiring and overall awesome colleagues in the industry!

You will be responsible for the Website team, responsible for maintaining our corporate website.

What is the role about?

Are you an enthusiastic leader who can keep a team of talented engineers motivated, challenged, and on track? Do you thrive on opportunities to enable others to deliver to their full potential and exceed the expectations of their customers? Then, you might want to read further!

The Agile Team Manager is responsible for the overall performance and results of the team, and you coach on the Scrum way of working. You will maintain a technical focus with applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team and be willing to have technical involvement to support the team in getting the job done.

Key responsibilities:

• You develop, coach, and mentor the team of engineers
• Take care of team management tasks such as hiring and performance evaluation
• Facilitate Scrum events and use agile principles & practices
• Bring the team to the next maturity level
• Support the Product Owner and guide business stakeholders
• Provide transparency and visibility to the entire organization
• Build a high performance team, and foster collaboration in and across teams
• Improve processes in the company impacting to the team 

What we’re looking for:

You are passionate about Agile values, principles and practices. You believe that continuous improvement also applies to yourself, and have the desire to grow as a person and towards being agile. As a self-starter, you address issues and remove impediments.

• Experience as a people manager and Scrum Master
• Coaching skills
• Facilitation and organization skills.
• Proactive & go-getter attitude, team motivator.
• Validating development roadmaps with the business
• Open & transparent.
• Good communication skills (in English).

Benefits include:

• Participation in annual company bonus scheme and company pension
• Internet allowance and travel allowance
• Working from home policy  
• Lease bike plan
• 25 days of paid time off (and the option to buy or sell up to 5 more days) 
• Free lunch, parking, and fresh fruit provided when in the office 
• Attractive relocation packages and an agency that takes care of the entire visa process
• Access to the Leaseweb Academy, a personalized learning platform offering a variety of studies, (Dutch) courses, and trainings 
• Fun events year-round – from virtual pub quizzes to summer parties, company runs, quarterly hackathons and much more 
• Monthly after work drinks
• A multicultural work environment (our colleagues are from over 60 countries!) in a company where you can truly make a difference 

Ready for the next step?  

If you’d like to apply, please do so online. To learn more about us, follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram to get an inside look at life at Leaseweb. For questions, please reach out to Demetra Spyrou, Talent Acquisition Specialist, at: [email protected] 

We directly source all candidates – any unsolicited profiles received from recruitment agencies will be treated as direct applications.