Tech Teamlead

Posted Feb 3

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011, it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 300 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors, Sherpany is one of the best scale-ups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

What you will be doing:

Align, coach and motivate your team (3x CRM-Admin 1x IT-Admin) to achieve your teams-objectives
Keep up with trends in the constantly evolving information technology industry
Work alongside other departments to achieve company goals and visions.
Transform the IT-strategy to a tactical roadmap and ensure its execution
Aligning stakeholders around your teams vision for the IT-Landscape
Oversee, manage, administrate and support Sherpany's internal IT
Manage 3rd party service providers and negotiate contracts with vendors

What we will love about you:

Proven work experience in a leadership position
Driven and motivated to be part of a freshly formed IT team
You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are eager to drive Sherpany's internal IT.
Business acumen to set the right priorities for your team.
You have previous experience in an IT environment build on SaaS-technology.
Ability to understand a business stakeholders underlying problem and transform it into an IT-solution
Fluent in English (spoken, written)

What is your mission in the first 12 months?

After 3 months:

You know your team (3x CRM-Admin 1x IT-Admin) and what they need from you.
You have understood the tech strategy 2023 and planned tactical initiatives for the next 6 months.
You have taken ownership of running projects and are ensuring they are running within timeline and budget to achieve the expected outcomes.
You have taken ownership of IT-support and ensure smooth operations through setting your IT-Admin up for success.
You have talked to executives, team-leads and users to understand the needs of your stakeholders.

3-6 months:

You have successfully driven multiple projects across the finishing line and thus increased the productivity of your stakeholders through an improved technology setup.
You have introduced fault-tolerance and thus improved the maturity of the IT-support-processes
You have moved the needle on your KPI's and thus made progress towards your objectives.
You have been able to optimize the costs of our IT-SaaS-Infrastructure through diligent license management and well negotiated contracts.

6-12 months:

You have built a good relationships with your stakeholders from all hierarchy-levels
You have set your team up to consistently deliver the expected value through our IT-projects
You have iterated over our operational IT-services (onboarding, off-boarding, administration, support etc.) and increased their productivity.

How you can imagine us:

You are part of a company with people working from everywhere in the world, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome
In order to maintain your work-life balance we offer flexible working hours, home office and/or remote-working
Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education, trainings etc.
We work with modern Apple products; every employee receives an own MacBook
Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us, which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a value-centric cooperation

Our recruiting process:

Interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
Interview with the VP of Operations
Final interview to meet the team, principal stakeholders and solve a job related challenge
Offer
Join us and become a Sherpanee!