Guild Master

AT&T Israel R&D Center, with its 600+ employees, is the largest center outside the US, yet has the heart of a startup. The products you’ll work on here will influence the daily lives of millions of users in the US, and you’ll be working with many people from different backgrounds in a result-driven innovative environment.

Who are you?

Are you a manager looking to put your people-growth skills come first?

Are you a team player excited to make an impact on 350+ developers?

We’re looking for an enthusiastic guild master to lead our 3 technical guilds in Israel AT&T R&D center: Backend, Frontend and DevOps.

What are some of the things you do on a day-to-day basis?

• Develop content items (internal and external meetups, blogs, workshops and internal posts) with developers from all business units, in Israel and in US
• Mentor and support developers with their professional and personal growth during the internal sessions or blogs – know to handle each one differently and assess what help they need
• Manage indirectly 3 guild councils: Backend, Frontend and DevOps
• Define the path forward in terms of technology and knowledge – what is important for our developers to know? Which areas needs to be investigated?
• Build new types of activities and events
• Document software patterns, best practices and other items
• Build the guilds brand in the organization and in the Israel industry
• Constantly look for ways to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration between developers from different groups
• Attend conferences and external meetups and keep an eye on the industry from technology and guilds management angle
• Promoting cross site initiatives (e.g. GuildFest, Code Katas or Hackathons)
• Find relevant study cases to be shared in the guild
• Report statuses to the site management
• Each day will look different!

What are things you will not do?

• Infrastructure or coding
• Enforce standards
• Manage people directly

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• At least 10 years of hands-on experience
• You are a people person, yet keen on technology. You breath technology and you are up to date with emerging trends and best practices in software development
• You are highly organized and thorough; You are well familiar with tools and frameworks to enhance productivity
• You enjoy challenges and hard-to-achieve goals
• You have track record of managing without authority (matrix management or other)
• You have managed people currently or in the past but you haven’t lost the need to feel the ground yourself
• You have proven in the past that you can engage and inspire others
• You are a constant learner
• You are assertive, but ego-less
• You get things done; You keep your eye on the ball even when there are multiple balls in parallel 😊
• You are happy when others succeed; You know to shout-out when needed
• You are able to have a high level view, but you can dig into a technological area with details
• You have presentation skills and you enjoy knowledge sharing
• You are an effective reviewer and you know to ask the right questions
• You have excellent spoken and written English
• Advantage: You managed a technology guild in one of the high tech companies
• Advantage: You have led a Hackathon before or other technology events
• Significant advantage: You spoke in more than one technical conference or moderated one
• Significant advantage: You regularly write a blog

We are hiring for various positions within the company, with some roles offered through outsourcing.

Join us and enjoy a dynamic and flexible work environment.