R&D Manage

A leading SAAS company located in Jerusalem seeking for a strong R&D Manager.employee compensation and pension management product domain that will lead the overall product development roadmap end-to-end.Overall responsibilities

Work closely with the company business leads as-well as various customers in order to provide purpose clarity and focus to the R&D team members with respect to the incoming business needs, priorities and effort assessments.

Lead and facilitate technical / architecture design and discussions.

Oversee the execution and adapt to on-going changes of the R&D software program releases under tight budget, scope and timeline constraints.

Modernize the organization’s methodology and execution – including leveraging and advancing AGILE / SCRUM / KANBAN as-well as modern application lifecycle tools with the organization.

Lead and enable the R&D teams to succeed via empowerment and coaching

Build, set goals and manage the technical skill-sets of all R&D members, such that the members continuously improve.

Define organizational-wide KPIs, goals and internal plans to meet the KPI goals

Drive the Support organization that will promote and continuously improve the overall customer satisfaction, based on clear KPIs and on-going fact-based evidence.

At least 3+ years as a R&D Manager for an organization of 20+ engineers (developers and QA) in the IT domain

Hands-on experience and highly savvy with C# / .NET, Delphi, SQL and modern web technologies.

3+ years of practical experience working with Agile / Scrum, preferably as an R&D Agile / Scrum champion within the organization. CSM – A plus.

Experience in budget management

Highly proactive and independent personality with the ability to drive multiple actions forward simultaneously

Experience in managing risks and mitigations

Ability to generate crystal-clear top-bottom project status reports

Savvy with various R&D tools, such as bug-tracking and customer incident reporting and program life-cycle management tools (e.g., Sales-Force, Jira)

High communication and presentation skills to various types of stakeholders, including the ability to generate executive management summaries

Excellent writing and communication skills to various teams and stakeholders