Tech Director

Red Badger is a Tech Consultancy helping large and interesting companies discover new products, and building them.

The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We’ve been around for 10+ years now and we are over 100 strong. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it.

Our 3 founders, Dave, Cain and Stu, who have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own 100% of the company. We’ve been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning

The role 

We are looking for a Tech Director to join the Senior Leadership Team at Red Badger.

As a Tech Director, you'll take the lead with both managing Red Badger engineering teams, and shaping & delivering complex and interesting client engagements. Often working closely and collaboratively with a Managing Director, Product Director and Delivery Director, together you'll be leading both operationally and strategically to promote joy, quality and growth throughout Red Badger. You will also help to build opportunities for meaningful work to clients and badgers alike. 

You will play a leadership role in the business, managing a team of exceptional engineers and technical leaders, and defining hiring strategies to ensure that Red Badger continues to have sustainable growth, whilst providing exciting opportunities and challenges for your teams.

Key responsibilities

Drive Strategy

• Provide leadership to help define and drive strategy within Red Badger.
• Proactively drive business change with Red Badger leadership and teams.
• Work closely with Finance and People teams to understand and act on business metrics (e.g. profit and loss, utilisation and people happiness).

Lead and Manage Client Accounts

• Lead and own client accounts and work streams, from shaping a project to delivering agreed outcomes.
• Become a trusted advisor for our clients by collaborating with them to solve problems, and create products and services which deliver business and customer value.
• Be accountable for complex digital transformation projects and help shape the technical direction of the client’s product delivery.
• Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client teams.
• Negotiate and manage client commercial agreements.
• Set up and shape appropriate Red Badger teams for our clients.

Sales and Network development

• Support with qualifying and shaping early-stage opportunities, and create proposals for new or existing clients.
• Work with sales and marketing teams to activate and grow your client network. 
• Lead sales activities, from pitching and planning, through to commercials all the way to to project kick off.

Ensure Red Badger Quality and Approach

• Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross functional teams, agile and lean best practices, delivering value early,, building quality in.
• Understand and communicate our cross functional value chain (Engineering, QA, UXD, Product, and Delivery).
• Promote and live Red Badger’s principles (see below).
• Drive continuous improvement, quality and project delivery.
• Be an ambassador for Red Badger, and an advocate for ‘doing the right thing’, ‘doing the thing right’,  supporting and enabling others to do so.

Care for People

• Inspire, coach and support Badgers and clients in achieving their goals.
• Provide leadership for Engineers and Quality Assurance people.
• Drive a culture of joy, quality and growth with Badger’s and clients.
• Line manage and hire engineers and help them with their careers 

Advocate for Tech Discipline

• Provide technical guidance to the delivery team
• Jointly own the technical discipline with other Tech Directors and the Chief Scientist
• Directly guide the technical strategy for our clients and for Red Badger
• Work across one or more projects/delivery streams
• Build out new technology competencies within Red Badger
• Assist in mentoring and gathering feedback on Red Badger engineers and test leads

Your experience 

• It’d be great if you have  
• Background in full stack DevOps and have built complex digital products.
• Experience in consulting
• Solved complex problems and organised others to see ideas through to fruition
• Had a senior engineering role in the creation of a customer-facing digital product
• It’d be amazing if you also have 
• Experience in sales and are confident in shaping an engagement strategy with a new or existing client.
• Bring network who have a commercial need for Red Badger’s digital product expertise  
• Participate and are interested in professional industry groups and communities, attending or speaking at conferences, and actively engage with others in your discipline.

We make sure our team is well looked after with generous salaries and a great benefits package which includes;

• Annual £2K training budget
• 1K Working from home budget
• Generous Pension
• Group Life Insurance
• Income Replacement Benefit
• Critical Illness Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Your choice of Apple hardware and mobile phone
• Matched (pre-tax) charity PAYE donations
• Cycle to work
• Enhanced parental leave

Diversity & Inclusion

• Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire, employ, train, promote and compensate regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed and colour. We are fully focused on equality, and it is our fundamental belief that the fascinating characteristics that make us all different enable us to continue to do amazing work for our clients.