Job Opening Description
At interworks.cloud, we are seeking a highly skilled and dynamic R&D Team Lead to oversee and drive the successful delivery of a service integration module of our R&D cloud product, ensuring that the team consistently meets quality, efficiency, and strategic goals. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with strong leadership and people management skills to foster a culture of innovation, transparency, and continuous improvement. This role requires balancing hands-on problem-solving with strategic oversight, managing a cross-functional team, and collaborating with key stakeholders across the organization.
This position is ideal for a candidate who has transitioned from a software development role or has experience in technical product or project management. Your focus will be both on technical execution and the growth and engagement of the team.
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Your role & responsibilities
Product Delivery and Execution
- Oversee the team's backlog, ensuring clarity and transparency for R&D and non-R&D members and alignment with business priorities.
- Collaborate with the R&D Strategist to Implement a data-driven approach by maintaining metrics and implementing new ones to track and improve team performance (e.g., delivery time, quality standards, team health).
- Foster a culture of working with defined versions and deadlines, ensuring the team adheres to delivery timelines without sacrificing product quality.
- Identify and proactively manage risks to delivery, team morale, or product quality, addressing potential issues before they escalate.
People Management & Development
- Ensure the team has the appropriate mix of skills, resources, and processes to meet both current and future needs, fostering continuous learning and professional growth.
- Predict personnel needs based on project demands and proactively manage the scaling of the team to meet future organizational goals.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.
- Actively mentor and guide team members, conducting regular performance reviews, setting clear goals, and facilitating their career development.
- Conduct 1-1 meetings to address performance, motivation, and career development, ensuring high engagement levels.
R&D Collaboration
- Serve as the primary communication point between your team and other departments, ensuring alignment on goals, deliverables, and expectations.
- Drive team alignment through transparent backlog management, regular team meetings, and clear documentation of tasks, decisions, and action items.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Marketing, Sales, etc.) to ensure that R&D projects align with broader business objectives.
- Address inter-team challenges and conflicts promptly, facilitating resolutions that promote productivity and alignment.
Optimization & Continuous Improvement
- Collaborate with the R&D Strategist to continually innovate and refine your team’s estimation and planning processes, ensuring greater predictability and stakeholder trust.
- Drive team optimization initiatives, identifying and implementing process improvements.
- Ensure timely adjustments in resources, processes, or support structures to meet project timelines while balancing team workload and preventing burnout.
Our ideal candidate
- Technical Leadership
Strong understanding of R&D processes, product development lifecycles, and how to manage technical backlogs, versioning, and deadlines.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making
The ability to navigate and solve complex issues under pressure while ensuring that commitments are met.
- People Management
Proven skills in scaling teams, aligning their skills with organizational needs, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and transparency.
- Risk Management
Experience with proactively identifying risks and managing resources to mitigate them while keeping team morale high.
- Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Experience with Microsoft products, especially in integration projects, is highly desirable.
Sounds like you?
It is a Win-Win🌟
What we offer
- A tech-passionate team with a friendly culture and international breed.
- A high-end technology cloud product
- Competitive compensation package with benefits.
- Private insurance program & Annual Basic Health Care.
- Flexibility on remote working (we use the work-from-anywhere model).
- Opportunities for knowledge growth through continuous training
- Modern, friendly & fully equipped workplace.
If you feel you are a great fit, please apply!
We would love to hear from you!
About interworks.cloud
As a Software Vendor, we have developed a state-of-the-art cloud commerce platform that transforms traditional IT sellers into Cloud Solution Providers. Addressing the needs of Cloud Distributors, CSPs, MSPs, and ISVs all over the world, the interworks.cloud platform aims to successfully automate key cloud service processes, such as billing, ordering, invoicing, and recurring payments for services from major vendors, such as Microsoft, Acronis, Google Workspace, Adobe, other IaaS and SaaS solutions.
With more than 15 active and fully functional integrations — including with leading products from major cloud vendors — the interworks.cloud platform helps businesses in more than 70 countries boost their service portfolio and expand their cloud offerings.
As a leading cloud services Distributor and Provider in Southeastern Europe, we empower businesses across Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and beyond. With over 500+ Cloud Resellers & MSPs, we partner with top-tier tech vendors like Microsoft, Acronis, Malwarebytes, Anydesk, and more to deliver essential solutions in productivity, collaboration, security, backup, endpoint protection, and disaster recovery. We drive true growth by empowering partners and their customers with self-service capabilities through our powerful marketplace that offers end-to-end automation. Supported by our exceptional 24/7 service, we help thousands of companies fast-track their digital transformation with advanced cloud services.
For further information, you can visit our Websites:
Cloud Platform: Microsoft CSP Automation | interworks.cloud
Cloud Services and Distribution: Cloud Solutions
Please note that due to the large number of CVs received, only compatible candidates will be contacted for an interview.
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, interworks.cloud is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.
