Tribe Lead

SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with global reach. We have offices in Europe and an office in Mauritius. Our goal? We bring people solutions to life, so companies of any size can turn Human Resources into a source of value for the business and the people in it.

Our people solutions span the entire employee journey, from getting people paid to attracting, rewarding, and developing talent. Are you ready to join us?

What do we have to offer?

• An attractive salary based on your experience and achievement. And the freedom to compose your personal benefit package.
• A dynamic environment: flexible working hours and working from home – everything is negotiable
• Learning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training
• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field or you want to expand your knowledge more horizontally, there is always room to grow within SD Worx

About the Role:

Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for driving progress and innovation? We are seeking a Finland Tribe Leader to join our team and act as an outward ambassador, removing impediments to tribe progression towards quarterly delivery targets. This senior leadership position is integral to both the country leadership team and the central Products Management team.

As the Tribe lead, you will be responsible for defining and delivering the Tribe's key performance indicators, including engagement, efficiency, quality, and systems availability. You will oversee the software development of all payroll and reward products, as well as transversal assets introduced within Finland and, occasionally, the wider Nordic tribes. This encompasses payroll and reward, integration technologies, core HR, workforce management, and other assets defined by our Portfolio teams. Your role will involve managing priorities in alignment with business stakeholders to ensure the Tribe's objectives are met.

In addition to these responsibilities, you will interact with other tribes to achieve the Tribe's business goals, acting as the intersection in a matrix organization and collaborating closely with the Portfolio team to define what to deliver in each SD Worx Market. This includes driving the development of central and country assets for Finland. Beyond the Finland Tribe focus, there will also be opportunities to lead a transversal asset for the organization, which involves developing a product vision and strategy in close collaboration with our portfolio team.

If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding leadership role, apply now to become our Finland Tribe Leader and help shape the future of our organization.

Your Responsibilities:

Managing the product portfolio:

• Manage the product portfolio together with your stakeholders: Define vision for the Tribe and its products working closely with portfolio and country leadership team.
• Working closely with your product manager/tribe architect to make product lifecycle decisions (piloting, scaling, decommissioning, etc.).
• Define and enforce quality standards (including focus on non-functional requirements, security compliance, audit compliance).
• Interact with the Tribe Architect to understand the roadmap for the product technology including identification of technical debt and proactive management of technology upgrades including hosting strategy and cost reduction.

Planning and prioritizing the work:

• Working with your product manager or product owners, you will assist in planning and prioritizing the work for the tribe; Synchronize the product vision with Product Owners, Quarterly business planning in the Tribe, preparing a Quarterly Business Review (QBR).
• Lead the product team to design and maintain the roadmap for the Tribe including product lifecycle decisions (piloting, scaling, decommissioning, etc.), and software development (IP creation).
• Manage expectations of all stakeholders in market teams and wider country teams in relation to priority decisions and delivery/progress.
• Manage partners/vendors regarding outsourced services, ensuring alignment with all business stakeholders and being a point of escalation.
• Work with portfolio to define priorities and collaborate with other transversal tribes to deliver connectivity and utilize the wider group assets.

Managing the Tribe:

• Build the organization required to deliver the tribe goals including the Tribe composition (hub vs local) and headcount (based on budget) in line with Product Strategy.
• Be a role model servant leader for your tribe and the people coach for your direct reports including (but not limited to) - Agile coach (people leader for squads), Product Manager(s) or Product Owner(s), Tribe Architect(s).
• The role should be located in Finland and allow for regular office working in the Helsinki office.
• The role will require regular travel within Europe and also outside Europe to our non-European hub locations.

Align with the Global organization:

• Ensure coordination between business stakeholders and be part of Finland senior leadership team (aka Market Team).
• Align with Product strategy on all key metrics (compliance, security, key KPIs, hub usage).
• Point of escalation for anything Product related in Finland.
• Transversal asset role - defining strategy on our transversal assets this will include close alignment with our Portfolio team.
• Manage partners/vendors regarding outsourced services.

Your Profile:

• Technology and product expert with senior leadership experience gained in multiple sectors within large global/international companies.
• Extensive experience operating and leading teams in an Agile environment.
• Substantive people management experience with large product development teams in a multi-country/international organization.
• Several years of experience with responsibility for large technology projects including transformational change.
• Ideally a knowledge of wider technology concepts including Automated Intelligence, data science, data and analytics, business intelligence reporting, connectivity/middleware, mobile app development, authentication software, Core HR technologies, etc.
• A pragmatic, enabling, and motivational leader who will inspire and engage his/her team(s) to deliver exceptional products for our customers.
• Must be fluent in English and Finnish.

From many places, we work as one, moving from better to best together.

SD Worx lives diversity in the workplace. Diversity provides inspiration and innovation in our company. We particularly welcome applications from qualified talent, regardless of origin, nationality, gender, skin colour, ethnic and social background, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation and stage of life.