Team Lead - Platform - Communications

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world's leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonald's, and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world's top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative companies by Fast Company.

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How you can help make a better world of work

As a Team Lead, you will be at the forefront of building and leading the team creating the future of communications at Culture Amp. You will be instrumental in shaping a generative, high-performing culture by building systems of work that empower engineers. You will lead the technical selection of a new platform vendor and champion a "platform as a product" approach, creating a service so valuable that product teams choose to adopt it. This is a key leadership role with a chance to make a significant impact on our developer experience and ability to deliver customer value.

You will

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of talented engineers, fostering their growth and helping them achieve their career goals.
• Drive the technical direction for your team, leading the evaluation and integration of a new communications vendor while balancing technical and product trade-offs.
• Champion a culture of trust and psychological safety, creating an environment where your team can do their best work and learn from failure.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to deliver a platform roadmap that reduces cognitive load and improves the DORA metrics for internal product teams.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, identifying and removing systemic friction to enhance delivery and efficiency.
• Own your team's delivery, consistently meeting commitments and translating your work into measurable, valuable outcomes for internal product teams.

You have

• A strong background in software engineering and experience leading engineering teams.
• A passion for people leadership and a proven ability to build and develop high-performing teams, including managing individual performance.
• A "platform as a product" mindset, with a deep understanding of developer experience and how to earn adoption from internal customers.
• Experience with the technical evaluation, integration, and management of third-party vendors and services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong systems thinking and a strategic mindset, with the ability to think critically about technical and organizational challenges.

You are

• A natural coach and mentor, passionate about developing engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• A culture champion, dedicated to building a resilient, high-trust team where psychological safety and open feedback are the norm.
• An advocate for the end-user, always connecting the team's platform work to the value it delivers for customers.
• Pragmatic and adaptable, with the grit to navigate ambiguity and guide a team through complex technical challenges.
• A curious and collaborative problem-solver, who is open to new ideas and thrives on working with others to find the best path forward.

Culture Amp offers a competitive compensation package, employee share options, coaching, mental wellbeing support, allowances for personal and professional growth, team building budgets, extended breaks, parental leave, social impact days, and medical insurance coverage for US & UK employees.

We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism initiatives and encourage applications from all candidates, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.