Software Development Manager

3Shape has expanded by an average of 35% for 15 years straight - head count, revenue, and profit. From two guys with a business plan and a master’s thesis prototype to Denmark’s most successful medical device company with more than 1500 employees. No venture capital. No external investments. Just hard work, talent, and grit.

The department you will take over is already established and very well run. While there is a strong wish to continue this winning streak, this does not mean that there is no room for change. Change always crashes the party.

Imagine being in a company where one third of the employees are new - every single year. Combine that with a global, hard-core competitive landscape and what do you get? One of the most exciting job descriptions in the industry!

It is important to us that whomever is entrusted with leading our dedicated people is able to embody our values. In R&D we have a high focus on Trust and Empowerment. Our agile teams take independent decisions without use of steering committees or control boards. The team leads hire their own people. Innovation is distributed, and technical mastery is abundant. When most of your employees are M.Sc.’s or Ph.D.’s you can expect a high degree of self-reliance.

The focus of the leader becomes setting the autonomous space, enforcing good values, handling high level stakeholders, and implementing strategic change in our organization.

Here come the bullet points.

Your qualifications:

• The job entails leading group managers (i.e. team leads), project managers and a few high-level specialists. It is important you have leadership experience - preferably on the “leading leaders” part of the pipeline
• We do R&D. It’s development of products containing software and hardware components in a complex mix. A background in product development (internal or external to your organization) is ideal.
• While it’s not strictly required to have an Engineering degree or a Master’s in Computer Science, it certainly helps. Our teams are highly skilled and leadership dilemmas with a technical flavor will land on your desk.
• Cross-culture leadership experience is a definite plus - our team members are located in Denmark, Macedonia, and Ukraine.
• Again, a good cultural fit for our agile and informal work style is paramount. Ideas win on merit, unnecessary bureaucracy is avoided. Trust is valued over Control. If you can live and breathe these values, then you’ll fit in perfectly.

We offer:

• A leadership career track in a fast-growing, international tech company
• An attractive work location in downtown Copenhagen
• An international atmosphere (we are more than 30 nationalities in our HQ alone)
• A competitive compensation package
• A fast paced and – above all - innovative work environment where you get to work with the best people!

Note, due to vacation, interviews for this position will start in September 2018, and we do look forward to reading your application!

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