Job Description

Join our team in building the next generation of environmental data & decision making. In this role, you will support, coach & manage engineers throughout their path as individual contributors to our goals. You'll maximise their performance, grow their skillset & ensure their wellbeing. On a team level, you'll foster a culture of ownership, initiative & high performance. In addition, you'll contribute to our product & engineering vision and execute on the strategy with the product team & executive leadership. You will work across the organisation with experts in academia, engineering, commercial, strategic, communication & people to maximise our positive impact.

The ideal candidate brings strong interpersonal skills, vast software engineering & leadership experience in a nimble environment.

What you will be doing:

• Support, coach & manage engineers
• Maximise the performance of individual contributors
• Grow their skillset
• Ensure their wellbeing
• Culture building (ownership, initiative & high performance)
• Contribute to the engineering & product vision
• Align with product leadership to ensure the multi-disciplinary product development teams are working effectively to achieve the product outcomes
• Execute on the strategy & maximise our positive impact
• Support the product teams on their software development maturity curve
• Organise & stimulate documentation habits

What you bring:

• You have built products as a software engineer in multidisciplinary product teams
  
• You have experience with all elements of the software development lifecycle
• You have experience leading teams and building a cohesive culture
• You have experience with change management
• You can facilitate a workshop or difficult decision meeting
• You are open minded, you listen, understand, discuss and find solutions
• You communicate effectively in English both online & offline, written & spoken
• You are curious and eager to learn
• You are analytical and creative
• You can give and receive feedback
• You can transfer all these skills & traits to others and spur growth
• Extras:
  • You have experience with start-up or scale-up culture

Why ecoinvent?

As a fast-growing team based in Zürich with over twenty nationalities, we embrace diversity and promote a collaborative and adventurous mindset. We are committed to building an inspiring work culture that nurtures creative thinking, transparency, and reliability.

Our benefits include flexible and hybrid work, employee professional growth plans, and our most vital asset: our community. We value transparency, flexibility, and a diverse working environment that encourages learning and continuous improvement. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. Join us and make an impact.

Our Mission

ecoinvent is an internationally active, mission-driven organization devoted to supporting high-quality, science-based environmental assessments. Its activities include publishing and maintaining the ecoinvent database—a comprehensive life cycle inventory database that provides reliable and transparent information on the environmental impacts of various products and services. It is used by companies, researchers, and policymakers to analyze the environmental impacts of their operations and make informed decisions.