Team Coach
Build the core components of European cloud! We're a Finnish tech scale-up preparing for massive growth. The European Cloud Market is booming, and we’re shaping its future.
We’re on a mission to be the number #1 European cloud platform, built on performance, reliability, and trust. While data sovereignty has become a hot topic in the EU, we can proudly say that we’ve been mastering it since 2011.
Sometimes, cloud technologies can be offered as a patchwork of ready-made solutions. At UpCloud, however, you'll be working with something that we've built from the ground up! Our existing infrastructure relies on open-source with a heavy emphasis on a distributed microservices architecture.
With a strong and constantly developing portfolio of IaaS and PaaS solutions, we are set up for big growth. To accelerate this market expansion, we’re looking for a Team Coach for our Helsinki office to take the lead of a constellation of two different teams, reporting directly to our CPO. You will guide our development teams, help our Product Managers with prioritisation, and lead planning and work for your development teams.
In this role you will:
Be the manager of your engineering teams, guiding and coaching individuals and enabling their personal development, removing blockers, and also recruiting new people
Ensuring your teams have a shared, clear mission, know the expectations of their work, and reach the set goals
Facilitate the teams and Product Managers in planning and executing our products
Improve ways of working and processes together with the other Team Coaches
You will need to have:
Deep understanding and expertise in the day-to-day of engineering teams and fluency in development practices, either from a long history of working with tech teams, or even better: through a technical background of your own
Basic understanding of cloud business
Excellent track record and deep focus in people leadership: coaching, mentoring, performance management, and facilitation
A highly pragmatic, hands-on way of working: focusing on the “execute” phase and getting things done
Great communication skills: you’re a smooth, diplomatic negotiator who can build and maintain great relationships with a variety of different stakeholders
An agnostic attitude towards agile methods: you modify your approach based on different environments, requiring different approaches
Skilled in context shifting, jumping from one domain to another: one moment you may be discussing new product features, the next outlining new company-wide KPIs
Experience in release management and continuous delivery
At least some background in a scale-up environment
Why join UpCloud?
UpCloud is in an exciting phase right now, on track for massive growth in the cloud market. We offer a chance to be part of something big, where you can really make a difference! With our awesome team, products, and excellent positioning in the European cloud scene, UpCloud is in the perfect spot for anyone who wants to learn, grow, and shape the future of cloud tech.
You get to join a driven, highly motivated team committed to making a difference. We have a unique market opportunity in Europe with our strong local infrastructure because our biggest competitors are all US-based, which is what makes this such a captivating opportunity to learn and grow.
The pay range for this role is around 5500-6500 euros per month, depending on your seniority. The range is not set in stone, as we assess each case individually.
We review all applications and get back to all our candidates. That is a promise.
Our benefits:
Up to six weeks of annual paid vacation
Flexible and remote-friendly culture
Extensive occupational healthcare
Company events and activities
Annual company trip
Lunch, sports & culture benefit
Travel insurance
Share Appreciation Rights program
Udemy E-learning platform and budget for trainings; unlimited business access
Recruitment process:
CV & application review
Screening Call
Interview with a peer
Task Assignment
Task Review
Interview with a Manager
Offer
- Department
- Product Engineering
- Role
- Team Coach
- Locations
- Helsinki
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About UpCloud
UpCloud is a global, innovative, and forward-thinking company with diverse teams in multiple locations around the globe.
Challengers at heart!
We are the architects of the leading European Cloud: a bunch of ambitious doers who refuse to settle for bare minimum industry standards and choose to redefine the bar for excellence instead. We don’t just compete with market giants, but drive the next wave of cloud technology.
Our coming years are dedicated to massive scaling and big wins. The UpCloud way is to custom-engineer superior products that stand apart: a cloud native stack renowned for exceptional scalability, speed, and security. The big cause is European data sovereignty!
Our goal is to consistently break outdated boxes and stir the status quo, to become our industry’s next major success story. While this requires that we give our utmost, our culture remains, and will always remain, unmistakably human-driven.
Dedicated to excellence
Anyone’s strongest reason to be here is simple: to work among the best. UpCloud is a collective of exceptionally skilled professionals.
Our continued growth demands a mindset of professional excellence and a healthy appetite for the unknown. At UpCloud, success means being an active solution-finder: rolling up your sleeves to problem-solve rather than waiting for an existing blueprint – we are the ones to create them!
First-class professionals, first-class treatment
Words are important, but actions speak louder. We prioritize our employees as much as our product quality, and foster a friendly atmosphere that champions Nordic work-life balance.
Once an UpCloudian, one is presented with 100% trust and wide liberties since day one – no questions asked. Our most informal, flat culture enables us to share knowledge, help a colleague wherever we can, and allows everyone to be their authentic, unique selves.