Team Leader
Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
- Managed 5 cross-functional development teams of up to 15 employees, including distributed ones. The teams consisted of both full-time employees and outsourcers.- Recruited new employees into teams: compiled profiles of candidates for HR, conducted interviews, provided feedback on the results of interviews.- Acted as a mentor, adapted new employees to a new place of work.- Held 1-to-1 meetings, gave feedback, set SMART goals, including personal goals for the professional development of employees.- Tracked the progress towards achieving the goals of employees.- Built the career ladder of employees: new positions, new roles and responsibilities, a new salary level, distribution of quarterly and project bonuses. Retention and dismissal of employees.- Engaged in administrative work: reporting to management, informing teams about changes and news, coordinating vacation schedules and time off, processing requests from related teams and departments.- Organized team workspaces: platforms for calls, for retro, for visualization of the workflow, meeting rooms for video conferences.- Promptly solved emerging issues and problems (for example, licenses, access, routing to the right people, etc.)- Facilitated intra-team meetings, acted as an invited facilitator at retrospectives of other teams.- Set up team processes using agile methodologies. Sprints, planning, decomposition and estimation, standups, retrospectives, backlog, grooming, demos were used in the workflow.Developed quarterly calendar plans for the release of products, took into account joint work with related departments, as well as SLA to correct errors in production zones.- Connected, if needed help, to analytics, devops, testing, development.