DICEEngineering Ops Lead
May. 2022 - Aug. 2023Joined as employee number 5 and led the Tech Operations department including establishing 3 different teams with earlier experience in section below; the company became a leader in live event discovery and ticketing in the UK, US and mainland Europe with 500+ employees. • Established 3 departments from scratch and grew them to 20+ team members; QA, Tech Support and IT Support.
• Led teams of 20+ engineers (including leads and managers) handling recruiting, performance and salary reviews; also creating a progression framework that improved employee satisfaction and with 94% achieving career growth.
• Handled technical and behavioural interviews to evaluate candidates, and onboarded successful candidates smoothly.
• Created an environment with high employee retention by continuously focusing on their development, satisfaction and growth.
• Managed SaaS contracts through building a contracts/licences database, building external vendor relations, handling contract negotiations, and reducing annual vendor costs by >20%; this was done for SaaS tools like Notion, Slack and Algolia.
• Fostered relations between Tech support, QA and non-technical internal stakeholders by integrating them earlier within the development lifecycle improving development velocity and reducing issue resolution time by 50%.
• Built two new HQ offices, one in New York and one in London while also helping expand several satellite offices in Europe (Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona); conducted site walkthroughs to identify obstacles, proposed solutions for network infrastructure deployment and handled contract negotiations for infrastructure, as a result saving 42% on exorbitant WeWork monthly rent for the New York office.
• Organized Product and Engineering summit and hackathon, attended (and enjoyed) by over 80 people; it produced over 15 new product ideas to create new revenue streams.