Head of Media Project Development Tinkoff

The first vacancy in this channel will be dedicated to finding a person who will work on the development of our media projects. Its leaders will be business guys represented by the main publisher and the main product of our media, as well as me as the head of engineering.

It is interesting that the very direction of media is not foreign to me, since even before Tinkoff I managed to take part in the development of media projects, being the head of development teams at Woman.ru and Banki.ru. And on my first day at Tinkoff, I met Tinkoff Magazine's first programmer. (TJ)Because we were working at the same time. Afterwards, I was never directly responsible for T-G, but I often assisted with the advice and time allocation of engineers from my teams. But now is the time to platform T-G and make it the backbone of all our media.

As a result, I am looking for an experienced manager who will take on the role of the technical director of media projects Tinkoff: he will lead the team of the department from 40 Engineers will launch new directions and build processes. Currently, three large products are included in the development of media projects:

• Journal
• Assistance
• Business secrets There are also other smaller products: Educational Textbook and Business School, product blogs, media platform. Products are presented in web and mobile applications. All this is supported and developed by seven product teams and two service teams. Product teams are cross-functional, in addition to technicians, they include products, designers, editors and other specialists. Service teams – testing and infrastructure.

In the plans of media projects on 5 years

• Create a large community where users can easily create and upload content in different formats: videos, images, long and short articles, and moderators can check it.
• Upgrade the admin so that editors themselves produce articles and publish other content without the participation of specially trained layout designers. In addition, it will be necessary
• Develop your own CMS based on the current developments of T-Zh to launch new content projects and transplant existing ones to it.
• Launch and support 10 New content projects. Do everything so that each project is not limited by the capabilities of the platform, but can, if necessary, expand its own functionality.

What this candidate has to do. I expect the development manager to Will be actively involved in strategic and tactical planning, as well as translating plans into reality Take at the start most of the work on the creation and implementation of the media platform

• Will be able to understand the relevant subject areas: infrastructure, testing, features of media, modern newsletters, analytics and numerous integrations Make quality management and technical decisions

In my eyes, the perfect candidate:

• For several years, he led a department or development team more 30 man. He worked for a large food company. Ideally, he also worked in the media.
• Can optimize processes: accelerate releases, increase the bandwidth of the team.
• It has a wide technical and architectural outlook. Familiar with the concept of microfrontends, evolutionary design, monoliths, services, microservices, pure functions and all of that. Ideally, once designed and implemented the transition of technical solutions from product to platform. Familiar with most of the team stack: React, React Native, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.
• He is able to plan for different horizons: from a sprint to several years. Able to synchronize these plans between business and tech. There are roadmaps and backlogs, CJM and user story.

P.S. If you think you're a good fit for this position, write me in person.

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