OverDrive

Team Lead (Front End Video Solutions)

OverDrive  •  $165k/yr  •  United States (Remote)  •  27 days ago
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Job Description

Responsibilities:
  • Ensures that team aligns work with business priorities.
  • Works with technical lead and product owners to ensure staff alignment is appropriate to address work demand. Identifies and clears roadblocks for the team.
  • Makes technical contributions without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
  • Collaborates with the Product Owner to set team’s priorities.
  • Aligns the team’s work to Product Owner priorities and ensures efficient delivery.
  • Partners effectively with the Product Owner to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap.
  • Works with technical lead to evaluate individual performance.
  • Conducts regular one-on-one meetings and performance reviews.
  • Identifies single points of failure in alignment of people, knowledge, or systems, and works to resolve them.
  • Communicates timeline, scope, and technical concerns to upper management.
  • Collaborates with peers to deliver cross-team projects.
  • Identifies areas of strategic technical debt and provides cost/benefits analysis for eliminating this debt, as well as suggested timeline for how to prioritize it.
  • Develops, reviews, and recommends practices and methods to improve workflow, communication and collaboration for stakeholders.
  • Assists leadership with special projects.
  • As a member of the leadership team, demonstrates through decisions, actions, and words a commitment to OverDrive’s mission, sustainability, and community outreach initiatives.
Requirements:
  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
  • 2 years of experience in management leading technical teams.
  • Experience must include working with the following programming languages: Swift, Kotlin, Brightscript, Cordova, Vue.js, and Nuxt.js.
Fully remote position.Salary: $164,670/year.May work from any location in the U.S.
OverDrive

About OverDrive

OverDrive is a mission-based company that stands with libraries. Named a Certified B Corp in 2017, OverDrive serves more than 88,000 libraries and schools in 109 countries with the industry’s largest digital catalog of ebooks, audiobooks, video and other content. OverDrive’s commitment to empower every library and school includes expanding access for all, tireless industry advocacy and consistently innovating. Award-winning apps and services include the Libby library reading app, the Sora student reading app, Kanopy, the leading video streaming app for libraries and colleges, and TeachingBooks.net, which offers one of the largest catalogs of supplemental materials that enhance literacy outcomes. OverDrive Marketplace is the premier digital catalog and sales platform for public library, academic, K-12 educator and international institutional buyers. Founded in 1986, OverDrive is based in Cleveland, Ohio USA. www.overdrive.com.

We are a Certified B Corporation, a growing global movement of people using business as a force for good™. OverDrive earned this certification for the company’s commitment to social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. OverDrive is proud to be a certified B Corp and to celebrate everything we stand for: Empowering communities with our services, supporting literacy and creating reading happiness; supporting initiatives that offer work-life balance for our employees; and incorporating work practices and business policies that strengthen and preserve our environment for future generations.

Industry
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Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cleveland, OH
Year Founded
1986
Website
overdrive.com
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