Technical Director (m/f/d)

• As Technical Director, you will have sound team leadership skills as well as passion and know-how for the entire technical spectrum of digital projects
• You support well-known customers across industries in the implementation of innovative solutions
• You will take on the technical and disciplinary leadership of a strong developer team and support them directly on the code to ensure a smooth project process
• Your area of responsibility also includes the further development of your team and therefore direct sparring with the recruiting and talent management team
• You have sound professional experience of at least 5 years in an agency or IT environment
• In our web projects, you ensure compliance with budget and time targets as well as quality
• You have extensive experience with software architectures
• You act as a sparring partner on the customer side and form the technical and communicative interface to our project management teams, together you work out the respective effort planning
• You have an agile mindset and enjoy making our customers' digital world a little better every sprint
• You have very good German and English skills

• Agency feel and mobile working: easily compatible through our hybrid working model and flexible working hours
• Workout-life-balance: Cooperation with Urban Sports Club and leasing offer from JobRad
• Profit sharing: As a permanent part of denkwerk, you will share in the profits
• Continuing internal & external education opportunities: TechTalks, Service Design Workshops and individual trainings, financed by a continuing education budget
• Company Pension Scheme: as a denkwerker you receive an employer subsidy of 20% for your company pension scheme
• Free choice of devices: Whether Mac, Linux or Windows - you may also use our hardware privately
• Support in all life situations: Counseling opportunities from pme Familienservice 
• denkfrei days: of our 31 vacation days, three days are free for everyone (Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve & Carnival Monday) to take a deep breath together
• denkmate: that's what we call our experienced denkwerkers, who are there to help and advise you at the start of your new working day
• Corporate benefits: all kinds of employee discounts
• Snacks & Drinks: cool lemonades, beer, fresh coffee or even fruit and vegetables - there's something for everyone

Can't wait to get started? Neither can we! We're looking for you to start immediately, but we're also flexible with your possible start date. 
 
Please also send us your CV and salary requirements.
 
P. S.: Classic cover letters are too normal for you? Surprise us with your creativity and introduce yourself and your motivations in your own way. We are curious!

• 1st interview: ~1 hour, mostly online with two participants from denkwerk
• 2nd interview: ~1 hour, preferably on site with two denkwerk participants
• In our interviews, both the professional and human denkwerk fit are highlighted
• Should a CoderPad Challenge come your way, we will let you know in advance
• After the two interviews, if the feedback is positive, a telephone offer conversation will follow
• We aim for quick feedback loops: if you are still missing feedback, please contact us proactively!

We are an owner-managed digital agency with headquarters in Cologne Ehrenfeld and further locations in Berlin Kreuzberg, Hamburg and Munich. A total of 260 motivated denkwerkers from 28 nations are waiting for you, including about 180 colleagues at the Cologne office. We create unique digital products for various clients such as Congstar, DeepL, ESPRIT, Mainova, Microsoft, Motel One, STIEBEL ELTRON and STORCK. Varied projects with modern concepts of software development as well as the development of sophisticated web applications are waiting for you. Feel free to visit our tech stack on Stackshare to learn more about our tools. To round off your onboarding, you can expect regular feedback meetings. As a "Great Place to Work 2024" employer, your opinion is important to us, because we live an open feedback culture! We like to celebrate, especially our successes – look forward to celebrations of all kinds, such as our summer parties and Christmas parties.

Janina Schulte-Kellinghaus & Pola Kaiser, Talent Acquisition Team