Available Offers for Startup management

CEO

Full-time

Looking for an experienced CEO to work in a startup - B2B marketplace of purchases for industrial enterprises.


Requirements:

  • Mandatory experience with B2B.
  • Successful background, confirmed cases of work in large companies, implemented projects.
  • Entrepreneurship experience (not necessarily your own business).
  • Motivation for long-term cooperation (3-4 years).
  • The ability to rely on numbers when making decisions.
  • English - basic.
  • Higher education is highly desirable.


Tasks:

1) Seamless separation of the project from the UGMK structure (legal, financial, project):

  • Creating the legal structure of the project;
  • Transfer of rights to the product / software from UGMK to a new legal entity;
  • Intellectual property protection;
  • Project budget protection;
  • Formation of business processes;
  • Elaboration of legal and tax risks.

2) Team building:

  • Management and operational team, organizational structure formation;
  • Definition of KPIs and motivation systems;
  • Staff training/building a corporate culture.

3) Updating the business model and product:

  • Analysis of the competitive environment, market analytics, identification of points of differentiation, formation of a value proposition;
  • Formation of a product vision and roadmap for 2 years of development;
  • Testing monetization models;
  • Preparation of asset light logistics model and its subsequent testing;
  • Saturation of categories, expansion towards difficult-to-connect categories (e.g. lumber).

4) Customer interaction:

  • Formation of a sales model (what and how we sell);
  • Systematic implementation of cusdev with clients;
  • Finding clients and conducting pilot projects, monitoring metrics. Getting insights and validating hypotheses.


Bonuses:

  • Voluntary medical insurance.
  • Comfortable office with gym, kitchen and catering;
  • A good team, the support of an investment fund with its expertise.

Agile Coach

Remotely
Full-time
Permanent work

Who are we? 

The fintech startup working on the first large-scale e-wallet in region. We aim to provide people with simple and convenient alternative to cash.


Role Description

Agile Coach has a true passion for agile product development, able to ensure effective outcomes for the organization. As a trusted advisor, Agile Coach helps to build and enhance the agile ways of working across product teams and functional chapters, identifies training needs and conducts workshops to educate teams on agile values, principles, and practices.


Responsibilities

  • Introducing and coaching Agile principles and practices across the delivery teams
  • Creating and improving Agile processes within product teams
  • Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
  • Helping teams with delivery forecasts with high quality
  • Ready to find and remove impediments
  • Improving team collaboration
  • Helping Product Owner find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management
  • Guiding development teams to higher agile maturity


Experience, Competencies and Skills Required

  • 1+ years of experience as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, ideally within a start-up environment
  • Experience with multi-team Scrum and Kanban
  • Strong facilitation skills
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • Ideally with technical background
  • Good problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
  • Higher education
  • Advance English, fluent Russian


Product Owner

Remotely
Full-time
Permanent work

Who are we? 

The fintech startup working on the first large-scale e-wallet in region. We aim to provide people with simple and convenient alternative to cash.


Role Description

A Product Owner creates product roadmap and guides the team’s effort ensuring value for customer and alignment with the overall product strategy. Product owner has a deep understanding of the target market & fintech industry. A Product Owner manages dependencies with other internal teams and external partners. PO works closely within their team to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into new features. Product owner is accountable for specific business KPIs in-line with key value drivers of the business


Responsibilities

  • Sets ambitious and clear product vision and communicates it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and other members
  • Closely collaborates with stakeholders to ensure product roadmap aligns with product strategy, mission, and vision
  • Accountable for product specific KPIs once product is launched and for regular communication of KPIs to key stakeholders
  • Utilizes market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories; maintains a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team
  • Works closely with CPO to establish each product’s business value proposition
  • Facilitates product release planning with stakeholders as well as weekly demos
  • Works onsite with the product team on daily basis to navigate them to deliver most valuable solution
  • Integrates product discovery activities into product requirements to eliminate product risks and enhance user satisfaction


Experience, Competencies and Skills Required

  • 2+ years in this role working with cross-functional teams to deliver digital payment solutions
  • Experience with launching digital products from 0
  • Ready to take full responsibility for decision-making and results of product implementation
  • Strong communication skills with comfort in speaking with business stakeholders
  • Ability to explain complex product solutions in simple terms
  • Experience in developing product vision, strategy and product roadmap based on research, hypothesis testing and, data and current market position
  • Knowledge on how to identify and track product metrics and make product decisions backed up by data
  • Knowledge how to research market needs and have conducted customer interviews, surveys, segmentation, usability tests and competitive analysis more than once
  • You know how to find a common language with the team, involve the team in the creation and improvement of the product
  • Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change
  • Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust
  • Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes teams to do the same
  • Previous experience with agile is an advantage
  • Higher education
  • Advance English, fluent Russian

Security Architect

Remotely
Full-time
Permanent work

Who are we?

The fintech startup working on the first large-scale e-wallet in region. We aim to provide people with simple and convenient alternative to cash.


Job description

  • Design cloud security architectures and perform architecture design reviews
  • PCI DSS subject matter expert ensuring company’s security architecture is fully PCI compliant
  • Define, prioritize, and measure our efforts in achieving and maintaining public and private cloud security in environments such as AWS working with engineering teams
  • Implement, maintain, and improve existing industry best practices of operational security controls such as:

-Audit mechanisms

-Vulnerability management

-Data classification

-Encryption and data security

  • Continually evaluate new threats in the cloud, to identify the impact on IT and Business to develop and implement security controls
  • Ensure effective coordination between IT Security, Private Cloud, and Infrastructure through collaboration with engineers


Job Requirements

  • Strong foundations in software engineering, specifically at the architectural level
  • Strong foundations in public cloud (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft
  • Azure)
  • Strong foundations in Kubernetes or Kubernetes like environments (stateless services, auto
  • scaling, pod communication)
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and concepts related to automated infrastructure management using tools such as Terraform
  • Knowledge of cloud security best practices including Identity Access Management (IAM), network security, modern cloud security architecture, and platform specific security and governance tools
  • Knowledge with CSPM platform like Wiz Orca etc
  • Knowledge in Service Mesh Architecture
  • Understanding of the ISO 27001/27002, COBIT, and ITIL frameworks are required.