Head of Tech

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About Us

We are an award winning digital product studio with 120 people in 5 different studios across the globe (London, Malmö, New York, Lisbon and Tokyo). For over 20 years we have been helping our clients grow by creating innovative, engaging and beautiful digital products that evoke an emotional response. Humans are at the heart of everything we create and our processes and culture reflect this.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced technology leader to join our team as Head of Technology, responsible for shaping, supporting, and growing the engineering team to deliver craft‑focused, breakthrough products for our clients, aligned with our strategic vision. Reporting to the Executive Director of Technology, you will work directly with peers across Design, Product, and Delivery. You will lead a team of approximately 25 engineers (Full‑stack, iOS, Android, and test), plus freelancers. This dynamic position requires a blend of team and project leadership, strategic planning, technical solution architecture, building team culture, representing ustwo externally (including new business and client interactions), and occasionally solving detailed technology problems.

Job Requirements

• A clear, confident communicator, comfortable conveying ideas to diverse stakeholders, working with senior leadership, and presenting to clients.
• An experienced project leader with 15+ years of industry experience, having led multiple software projects from scoping and architecture through to launch in a client services environment. You are adept at navigating delivery tradeoffs while prioritizing team well‑being.
• An experienced people leader who can lead, coach, mentor, and inspire. You have experience leading and hiring technical teams and have a vision for a highly‑functioning, cohesive team, including the opportunity to further establish a Principal Engineer capability.
• Current in your practice with solid software development fundamentals and a working understanding of modern, best‑practice architecture, development practices, and AI‑assisted tooling. You must be grounded in full‑stack web/backend (heavy focus on JS/TS) or mobile (native, React Native, KMP), and related areas like CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.
• An engineering leader that has emerged organically. Technical credibility is crucial. A demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility from engineering up through tech leadership and management is necessary, drawing on a breadth of experience from varied client environments.
• Resilient and adaptable. You handle pressure, work in a fast‑moving environment, embrace ambiguity, and can apply your practice across different industries and project types, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams using Agile approaches.
• Human and recognise humanity in others, fostering shared learning and empathising with concerns.
• Visionary, energised by making great products that affect real people\’s lives at scale.

Primary Areas of Responsibility

Project Leadership

• You share responsibility across all studio projects, accountable for how they are scoped, architected, and executed by the technical team.
• You will ensure projects are staffed appropriately, balancing individual expertise and project needs/budgets.
• You must be comfortable with new business development, including scoping technical work, pitching to clients, and contractual details.
• You will create solution architecture and high‑level design. While not expected to code daily, you will provide technical oversight as an informed and guiding voice, participating in major technical decisions alongside Principal and Lead engineers.

Team Leadership

• This role has a heavy focus on team leadership, direction, and thought leadership, driving the overall team/studio strategy.
• You will likely line manage 3‑5 lead/principal engineers, setting the tone for line management, growth goals, and progression across the entire team.
• The Head of Technology is responsible for the engineering team’s health, fostering community, shared learning, innovation, and collaboration. You act as the touchstone for engineering values, a point of escalation, and the team\’s representative internally and externally.

Studio Leadership

• You will be part of the studio team that shapes market positioning, hiring strategy, and skill growth. You will be a leading voice in how the tech team engages with the broader technology community.
• You will also lead new business development, influencing the types of work ustwo pursues and how we deliver to clients across our studios.

Job Benefits

Location

We are open to this role sitting in either our London or Malmö studios.

London

We currently have a hybrid policy in which you are required to be in the studio for two days of the week; our universal day on Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday and you are welcome to either work from the studio or from home for the rest of the week. We are keen for you to be involved in studio culture so the more you can get involved in opportunities for in‑person social interaction; the better! Occasionally pitches will need to be on‑site with the client but you will be informed of this as and when it crops up.

Malmo

We have a wonderful studio in central Malmö, Sweden, which is very close to station Triangeln. We have two universal studio days a week but lots of the ustwobies work from the studio 3‑4 times a week anyway. We would expect that you would live in a commutable distance to the studio and if you are based in Copenhagen then we also offer a competitive commuter bonus in addition to your salary to account for the difference in living costs.

Renumeration

Our salary bandings are dependent on experience and market aligned locally.

London salary banding for the Head of Tech level: £120,000 – £150,000 per annum.

Malmo salary banding for the Head of Tech level: 90,000 SEK – £115,000 SEK per month.

Our full benefits package is available to all permanent employees, please see further details here. We will also be able to share a benefits deck to showcase local benefits.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Director
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

Commitment to Inclusion

Interested but think your experience doesn’t perfectly align with this job description? That’s ok. Research shows underrepresented groups in particular are less inclined to apply for jobs where they don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed. We’d still love to hear from you if you feel passionate about this role! We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our colleagues, clients, community, and the users of our products. We don’t have all the answers but we’re on a journey, and we are learning together.