You’ll be leading a cross-functional development team (6-10 developers). Your challenges as a Team Manager include 

• Driving team performance and way of working, leading to reliable and predictable delivery of business value. 

• Coaching team members on a growth path that maximizes their potential and unlocks high performance and impact using goal-setting and regular, insightful feedback. 

• Ensuring effective collaboration between the team and stakeholders, including our product organization. 

• Instigating a continuous improvement habit including regular inspect and adapt follow-ups. 

• Staying on top of team health as evidenced by sustainable team dynamics and future-proof engineering best practices. 

• Identifying valuable candidates to hire and further grow a diverse, resilient and high-performing team. 

• Being an inspiring role model for our engineers  

• Establishing yourself as a credible technical leader in the team’s domain 

What you’ll need :

In order to succeed in this challenge, you’ll want to tap into your 

• Good interpersonal skills, effective in engaging with and influencing senior engineers 

• Credible, senior development/software engineering experience in a cross-functional team setting using at least one of C++, Java or Kotlin 

• Passion to develop and learn engineering management skills 

• Passion to help others grow and succeed 

• Active listening skills 

• Empathy and ability to deeply connect with others. 

• Strong sense of ownership. 

• Can-do attitude. 

• Senior-level software engineering background and algorithmic skills, strength in software system architecture. 

• Demonstrated experience leading a team of software engineers 

• Experience running and operating business-critical cloud-based services and APIs (Azure) 

• Background in the navigation domain 

We’re PU Directions, a product unit within TomTom’s Location Technology Products technical unit. We develop software for onboard, hybrid, and online navigation applications – used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Our software includes navigation domain logic for traffic-dependent routing and route guidance and an innovative Electric Vehicle suite; we change the way digital maps are designed and used for navigation. On our team, you’ll see your work transforming connected and embedded navigation around the world. 

• Competitive compensation package.

• Work flexibility program (Working @ TomTom) - work from both home and the office!

• Home office benefits, with a setup budget and a monthly allowance to support.

• Chance to work abroad for 90-calendar days in select countries and states!

• Holiday package that includes your birthday off and a volunteering day per year.

• Bring your ideas and innovation to life during our Hackathon, DevDays, and more!

• Take on learning opportunities – internal programs, O’Reilly and LinkedIn learning.

• The opportunity to join one of the few top tech location specialists and have an impact on the future of mobility.

• Be part of a supportive, inclusive, and global culture.

• First call: If your application matches the role, then it’s time to put a voice to the name! We’ll call you to set up an interview. 

• First interview (60 minutes): In this interview, we want to know more about you and your leadership experience – what excites you about location technology and how can you help us solve global challenges. 

• Second interview (45 minutes): A peer manager will dive into your potential role, showing you how you’ll fit into your team and contribute to our vision. 

• Third interview (45 minutes): A peer manager will dive into your potential role, showing you how you’ll fit into your team and contribute to our vision. 

• The final decision: Cue the fireworks because we’ll start the onboarding!