Key skills
Communication
About this role
Role Overview
- Represent the team upward and outward with confidence
- Communicate proactively, clearly, and respectfully
- Keep the team informed about priorities and changes
- Advocate for your team while challenging constructively
- Stay aware of team capacity, stress, and wellbeing
- Run 1:1s and offer coaching and mentorship
- Nurture a collaborative, motivated team culture
- Make and carry out difficult decisions for the good of the team and Kraken
- Align the team to product vision and long-term goals
- Maintain technical quality and improve systems thinking
- Guide team planning, delivery, and retros
- Translate large goals into achievable milestones
- Make resource and prioritisation trade-offs
- Contribute to hiring and talent development
- Distribute work fairly and rotate responsibilities
- Create clarity in ambiguous or shifting contexts
- Oversee or delegate rituals (planning, standups, reviews)
- Connect team delivery to product-group and company-level goals
- Partner closely with key stakeholders
- Remove blockers — technical, process, or people-related
Requirements
- Experience with line management of at least 3 people
- A strong software engineering background, minimum 5 years of experience
- Is comfortable working asynchronously
- Clear, regular communication
- Strategic thinking and the ability to translate that to action
- Advocacy for their team and its products
- A commitment to mentorship and support
- Strong organisational habits
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Work-life balance initiatives