Temporary Technical Office Manager

Temporary, Hourly, 1-Month, Potential for long-term.

On-site Milwaukie, OR office.

Flexible in-office M-F daytime hours.

Local candidates only. Portland or Greater Metro Area including Vancouver, WA.

--Description--

Do you like project variety? Looking to exercise your creative management and planning skills? We're building amazing products for organizations to help them "power their process, and empower their teams." and are looking for a professional & creative tech-team manager to join our small team- it's a startup-like environment where your voice is heard and active collaboration is the real-deal.

Everyone here has lived & breathed the technical world- so you'll find almost no bureaucracy or tedium here. First - we're here in Milwaukie Oregon - and we want you to be too (or at least in the surrounding commutable area); if you're seeking remote work, sorry! We all work, collaborate, and learn from each other as a team together, and have a very focused approach to work-life balance that is healthy & fair.

For this position we are seeking someone with a strong technology-based passion and understanding - someone who considers themselves a power-user (or better) and works well leading a team of software engineers. On a higher business level, you must understand good user-interface design, and what software solutions look like, and take, to create, validate, and deploy successfully. You'll drive the process of turning a new project into a formal project plan that takes ideas and turns them into deliverable results that make the customer smile. This means you must be able to talk and learn about technology subjects on-the-fly to bring yourself up to speed - while also being able to collaborate and communicate effectively with business customers.

Together with your team you will leverage the AppKu process to build a wide range of software and data solutions for our customers, acting as a translator of business and technical needs. You may also be doing lite quality assurance checks on features and functionality, and keep the team accountable and responsible for professional-quality projects.

If you have a logical yet creative & visual mind, and are a problem-solver, you'll do great here. You're building apps that truly make a difference in the day-to-day lives of business teams and organizations!

Here's the truth - we're in startup-mode, and it takes work and focus to be successful as a team (including, maybe you!) - we may fail, or take off and become hyper-successful tomorrow. In all reality, it will likely take several years - but we're all here to make it happen, and you should be too! So if you're someone who can put in the time to help craft an amazing company - and be there at the early stages - keep reading!

--What do we Do?--

We offer information systems consulting services to businesses seeking to innovate with data-driven apps and receive amazing information services for their business concerns, helping them accelerate beyond their competitors. Whether it's Office 365 support, developing custom apps, or just implementing new technology-driven business processes, our team helps turn our customer's ideas into reality.

--Experience--

• 1+ years in a management or leadership role for information technology or application development.
• 1+ years working as, or with, software engineers or other technical personnel.
• Experience managing an office and a team.
• Experience working directly with customers.

--Requirements--

Other than experience in our subject areas mentioned above, you will be required to…

• Help draft and document processes, products & features, and represent customer needs.
• Manage customer support tickets, ensure details are captured and updates are provided promptly.
• Ability to effectively write (or assist in writing) technical documentation for business audiences.
• Take the lead team discussions and ensure proactive, useful, and relevant meetings.
• Communicate clearly and constructively to software engineers and business customers.
• Guide and facilitate meetings and conversations on technical subject matter (and delegate conversation effectively).
• Report to the business team ongoing status reports and set team goals monthly, quarterly, and yearly. Provide weekly and ongoing status reports to business customers.
• Self-driven to excel, teach, and learn and grow as a Tech-team Project Manager.
• Able to lead collaborative efforts to diagram and model software products (doodles, wireframes, talk about widget options, etc.).
• Whiteboard and contemplate possibilities and creative solutions.
• Seek root-cause understanding of complex technical problems, at times, by yourself, and also in collaboration with others.
• Able to mentally track many products and expected behaviors, and work on the fly, until you can ensure formal documentation.
• Help enforce company standards of quality.
• Open the office every day at 9AM and close down at 5 PM.

--Q&A--

Q: What is the team like?

A: We're just getting started, so we're a very small team with a variety of experience levels. Some of us have been programmers for decades, some of us aren't programmers at all (sales, marketing, etc.). We're all friendly and professional and like to focus on bettering ourselves while creating an awesome product and experience for our customers.

Q: What is the work-life balance like?

A: Well, we have "core" hours of 10AM to 3PM, Monday through Friday, and you can balance your full-time schedule around those hours, as needed, and as you see fit! We have an unwritten rule to not to interrupt or interfere with people's life outside of work.

Q: Is there a ladder to climb?

A: Absolutely - although our organization is somewhat flat, we have a series of ranks Jr, Jr+, Mid, Sr, etc. as well as seniority (years at the company) - we want you to have a long-term successful career with us that grows in responsibility, benefits, and pay depending on the path you seek.

Q: What benefits do you offer?

A: We currently offer holiday, sick, and vacation leave. Trimet and travel reimbursements, $250/yr learning/skill & EFF donation matching. We hope to offer further benefits in the future. These benefits vary depending on employment status and title/rank.

Q: Do you offer relocation assistance?

A: No.

Q: Do you offer remote or hybrid work?

A: No, we're a present and accounted for team, in-person & together. We work together Monday through Friday in-office.

Q: We're an agency/staffing firm, should we contact you?

A: No. We hire individuals with no middleman.

These answers are subject to change over time, based on active policy at the time of writing. Always check with the AppKu hiring representative for current answers.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $22.00 - $30.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Application Question(s):

• Are you currently beyond a comfortable, regular, commuting distance to Milwaukie, OR?

Experience:

• IT: 1 year (Preferred)
• IT project management: 1 year (Preferred)
• Office management: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person