Guild Master
DESCRIPTION
AT&T Israel R&D Center, with its 600+ employees, is the largest center outside the US, yet has the heart of a startup. The products you’ll work on here will influence the daily lives of millions of users in the US, and you’ll be working with many people from different backgrounds in a result-driven innovative environment.
Who are you?
Are you a manager looking to put your people-growth skills come first?
Are you a team player excited to make an impact on 350+ developers?
We’re looking for an enthusiastic guild master to lead our 3 technical guilds in Israel AT&T R&D center: Backend, Frontend and DevOps.
What are some of the things you do on a day-to-day basis?
- Develop content items (internal and external meetups, blogs, workshops and internal posts) with developers from all business units, in Israel and in US
- Mentor and support developers with their professional and personal growth during the internal sessions or blogs – know to handle each one differently and assess what help they need
- Manage indirectly 3 guild councils: Backend, Frontend and DevOps
- Define the path forward in terms of technology and knowledge – what is important for our developers to know? Which areas needs to be investigated?
- Build new types of activities and events
- Document software patterns, best practices and other items
- Build the guilds brand in the organization and in the Israel industry
- Constantly look for ways to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration between developers from different groups
- Attend conferences and external meetups and keep an eye on the industry from technology and guilds management angle
- Promoting cross site initiatives (e.g. GuildFest, Code Katas or Hackathons)
- Find relevant study cases to be shared in the guild
- Report statuses to the site management
- Each day will look different!
What are things you will not do?
- Infrastructure or coding
- Enforce standards
- Manage people directly
REQUIREMENTS
- You are a people person, yet keen on technology. You breath technology and you are up to date with emerging trends and best practices in software development
- You are highly organized and thorough; You are well familiar with tools and frameworks to enhance productivity
- You enjoy challenges and hard-to-achieve goals
- You have track record of managing without authority (matrix management or other)
- You have managed people currently or in the past but you haven’t lost the need to feel the ground yourself
- You have proven in the past that you can engage and inspire others
- You are a constant learner
- You are assertive, but ego-less
- You get things done; You keep your eye on the ball even when there are multiple balls in parallel 😊
- You are happy when others succeed; You know to shout-out when needed
- You are able to have a high level view, but you can dig into a technological area with details
- You have presentation skills and you enjoy knowledge sharing
- You are an effective reviewer and you know to ask the right questions
- You have excellent spoken and written English
- Advantage: You managed a technology guild in one of the high tech companies
- Advantage: You have led a Hackathon before or other technology events
- Significant advantage: You spoke in more than one technical conference or moderated one
- Significant advantage: You regularly write a blog
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- At least 10 years of hands-on experience