Team Lead - Platform - Communications

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

As a Team Lead, you will be at the forefront of building and leading the team creating the future of communications at Culture Amp. You will be instrumental in shaping a generative, high-performing culture by building systems of work that empower engineers. You will lead the technical selection of a new platform vendor and champion a "platform as a product" approach, creating a service so valuable that product teams choose to adopt it. This is a key leadership role with a chance to make a significant impact on our developer experience and ability to deliver customer value.

As part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of talented engineers, fostering their growth and helping them achieve their career goals.
• Drive the technical direction for your team, leading the evaluation and integration of a new communications vendor while balancing technical and product trade-offs.
• Champion a culture of trust and psychological safety, creating an environment where your team can do their best work and learn from failure.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to deliver a platform roadmap that reduces cognitive load and improves the DORA metrics for internal product teams.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, identifying and removing systemic friction to enhance delivery and efficiency.
• Own your team's delivery, consistently meeting commitments and translating your work into measurable, valuable outcomes for internal product teams.

You have

• A strong background in software engineering and experience leading engineering teams.
• A passion for people leadership and a proven ability to build and develop high-performing teams, including managing individual performance.
• A "platform as a product" mindset, with a deep understanding of developer experience and how to earn adoption from internal customers.
• Experience with the technical evaluation, integration, and management of third-party vendors and services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong systems thinking and a strategic mindset, with the ability to think critically about technical and organizational challenges.

You are

• A natural coach and mentor, passionate about developing engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• A culture champion, dedicated to building a resilient, high-trust team where psychological safety and open feedback are the norm.
• An advocate for the end-user, always connecting the team's platform work to the value it delivers for customers.
• Pragmatic and adaptable, with the grit to navigate ambiguity and guide a team through complex technical challenges.
• A curious and collaborative problem-solver, who is open to new ideas and thrives on working with others to find the best path forward.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany). These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.

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