Build and grow a high-performing QA team: Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career progression for a centralised QA team. Foster a culture of ownership, quality, continuous improvement, and professional growth across both automation and manual testers.
Own QA delivery and prioritisation: Manage intake and prioritisation across multiple business units, balancing competing demands while maintaining clarity and predictability. Ensure QA work is aligned to business priorities and delivered with high standards and strong communication.
Strengthen quality practices and automation strategy: Partner with Engineering teams to improve automation coverage, regression reliability, and overall release confidence. Support the maintenance and evolution of QA environments, tooling, and best practices without being hands-on day to day.
Act as a strong cross-functional partner: Build trusted relationships with Engineering, Product, Design, and Operations. Serve as the bridge between QA and the wider business, ensuring expectations are clear, trade-offs are understood, and stakeholders are kept informed.
Provide technical credibility and guidance: Leverage your background in QA and engineering to guide standards, review approaches, and support your team in solving complex testing challenges — particularly across backend systems and distributed architectures.
Champion a remote-native culture: Lead with empathy and intention in a fully remote environment. Create alignment, clarity, and accountability in an async-first culture while maintaining strong team connection and morale.

Requirements

Proven QA leadership experience: Experience leading QA teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Strong people management skills, with a track record of coaching, performance management, and developing individuals at different stages of their careers.
Strong stakeholder and communication skills: Exceptional ability to manage internal clients across multiple business units. Comfortable navigating competing priorities, setting expectations, and influencing without authority.
Delivery and prioritisation mindset: Experienced in managing centralised QA functions supporting multiple teams. Able to bring structure and clarity to demand management without over-process.
Technical credibility in QA and engineering: Background in QA engineering, including both manual and automation testing. Prior hands-on experience is expected, though the role is not hands-on.
Familiarity with modern backend-focused stacks: Experience working with teams building systems using technologies such as Python, Node.js, React, and AWS serverless architectures. Comfortable testing distributed and backend-heavy systems.
Remote-first leader: Proven experience leading distributed teams and fostering accountability, alignment, and engagement in a fully remote environment.
Mission-driven and quality-focused: You care deeply about delivering reliable, high-quality systems that enable business impact. You help your team stay focused on outcomes, not just activity.

Benefits

Competitive salary - our current band for this role is £101,000 or equivalent in local currency.
Stock Options - everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
25 days holiday + public holidays - Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉.
Remote & flexible working - We’re fully remote with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
Home working & wellbeing budgets:
Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.).
Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing - from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

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Soft Skills

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