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Would you like to work with an award-winning product in a growing company? We at HappyOrNot R&D continuously work on our product to be more kick-ass at delivering value to our growing customer base. Now we are looking for a battle-proven project and RD leader to be our new Head of Projects.

As an ideal candidate, you are an experienced project leader with excellent project management skills. You most likely have an extensive technology background and maybe have worked as a developer at some point of your career. You are an effective communicator with a strong passion for leading challenging software (and maybe even hardware) development projects.​ You possess long experience as a leader in different R&D organizations. You also have experience in outsourcing and managing external software development work, covering offshore/nearshore.

You have a good understanding of the tools and technology stack we are working with (Scala, JVM, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, Redux, Kotlin, AWS, DevOps,). Background as a developer at some point of your earlier career is seen as a major benefit to succeed in this demanding role.

You’ll thrive with us if you want to help our customers reach their goals, are able to focus on what’s important and get it done, and understand that we are stronger as a team.

Your work will include:

• Defining a vision and alignment on "what-does-good-look-like" for projects and R&D by identifying and deploying best practices, principles, and planning tools to build a world class R&D team. ​

• Establishing oversight on the entire project portfolio. Monitoring and controlling our projects against the objectives (timeline, budget, quality) while coordinating corrective measures with goal driven mindset. ​

• Knowing what to do and how to do. Developing project management and SW creation competencies and working practices for the team. Providing training, mentoring and the necessary processes, and the right project management tools and methodologies.

• ​Directing project management capacity plans and right set of capabilities supporting our portfolio and product plans and making sure we have the right talent at the right time.​

• Recruiting and staffing by participating in recruitment processes and working with external agencies and third parties to staff the own team and divide the work between internal and external teams.

• Leading and continuously developing project management discipline, its people, and its skills. Coaching and mentoring our talent individually, and organizing training as needed.​

• Identifying project management best practices and implementing them on project teams.​

• Reviewing project plans, timelines, schedule and quality levels through the defined development processes. Looking for dependencies, trends, and patterns across projects and teams that may lead to more effective plans.​

• Auditing project management practices across projects looking for opportunities for improvement and sharing best practices.

• Being the people manager for Projects team and helping the team to grow and build long-term career paths for experts. ​

• Building and maintaining effective working relationships between project teams across the company. Promoting ‘One company’ co-operative mindset to break out from any silos. Leveraging these relationships to influence positive and collaborative outcomes.​

What we offer:

In return, we will offer you all the tools and support for enabling your success. You have an opportunity to join the team behind the globally protected and awarded HappyOrNot service and have the chance to grow your expertise in a growing, modern SaaS company on the way of conquering the customer and employee satisfaction markets worldwide.

If you would ask our employees what they value the most in working with us, they’d talk to you about the career opportunities, flexibility with responsibility and genuine internationality.

Interested? Hop on the growth journey with us and help us make the world a happier place Smiley at a time!

HOW TO APPLY

Send your application via the application button and tell us briefly why you would be a good fit for us. Make sure you include your CV or a link to your portfolio. Please also include your salary request with the application.

We will hire as soon as the right candidate is found, so please don't hesitate to apply right away.

Job Benefits:

• Company phone and subscription
• Lunch benefit
• Extended occupational healthcare services
• Sports event sponsorship
• Free coffee and tea
• Recreational office activities
• Employee stock option plan
• 10% working time on self- and open source development
• Recreational and welfare benefits
• Flexible working hours and remote-work arrangements

Time zone: (GMT+02:00) Helsinki +/- 2 hours

Would you like to work with an award-winning product in a growing company? We at HappyOrNot R&D continuously work on our product to be more kick-ass at delivering value to our growing customer base. Now we are looking for a new team member to join working our remote team as Software Developer. Possible focus areas will include developing, improving, and maintaining cloud-based applications for data analytics, insights, service administration, and feedback collection.

As an ideal candidate, you are proud of the code you write. You have attention to detail, but still you see the big picture. You want to scale things up, and feel joy when you know you have learned something new which will help you be a better programmer tomorrow.

You will really dig working with us if you envision your future involving:

• Solving complex problems with simple and elegant solutions
• Using Functional Programming (Scala, TypeScript)
• Solving complex problems with simple and elegant solutions
• Learning more about modern software development in SaaS environment
• Developing a microservices architecture on AWS
• Working according DevOps practices
• Building a well-known global product with thousands of customers
• Being part of a friendly and supportive remote R&D team (We also have hubs in Tampere and Seinäjoki in Finland, and in Delray Beach, Florida US).

What we offer

We work in teams, focusing on customer value and long term development of our platform and service. We choose our own tools and working methods, following certain best practices. We believe in lean & agile and invest in continuous improvement. Every team member gets to stretch their capabilities and take the lead role in a project when they are ready for it.

Interested? Hop on the growth journey with us and help us make the world a happier place Smiley at a time!

How to apply:

This position is filled as soon as we find our match so please don't hesitate to apply now! Please send your application via the button below and tell us briefly why you would be a good fit for us. Make sure you include your CV and a link to your portfolio as well as your salary request with the application.

We are looking forward to your application!

HappyOrNot

We are the global leader in instant customer and employee satisfaction reporting with our innovative feedback smileys. We deliver our clients world-class service on time – without exceptions.

Our broad experience in both European and US markets has enabled us to gather an extensive worldwide market intelligence database. Thanks to our vast insight from various industries and several global industry leaders, we have a firm background to help you increase your customer and employee happiness.

https://www.happy-or-not.com/en/about-us

Job Benefits:

• Company phone and subscription
• Lunch benefit
• Extended occupational healthcare services
• Sports event sponsorship
• Free coffee and tea
• Recreational office activities
• Employee stock option plan
• 10% working time on self- and open source development
• Recreational and welfare benefits
• Flexible working hours and remote-work arrangements

Time zone: (GMT+02:00) Helsinki +/- 4 hours