Technical Coordinator to the CTO
Frontiers, Switzerland
Job Description
We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet
Who we are
Frontiers is an award-winning open science platform and leading open access scholarly publisher. We are one of the largest and most cited publishers globally. To date, our 200,000 freely available research articles have received more than 1 billion views and downloads and 2 million citations. Our journals span science, health, humanities and social sciences, engineering, and sustainability. And we continue to expand into new academic disciplines so more researchers can publish open access.
Be part of the publishing revolution and help us transform the way research is published, evaluated, and communicated to the world.
The role:
The Technical Coordinator will provide analytical, technical and procedural support to the Chief Technology Officer.
The ideal candidate will thrive in intense, multitasking, interrupt-driven worlds and enjoy building solutions. They must be able to maintain confidentiality and work well with senior management. Strong analytical and interpersonal skills are required, as this candidate must be able to build bridges between groups and to identify the root causes of miscommunication.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate collaboration on technical issues both within the technology group and with other teams across the company.
- Provide technical and architectural research and analyses to support the CTO activities.
- Participate in technical deep-dive assessments of solutions, individual technologies or infrastructure projects and prepare the results to be presented.
- Manage meeting preparations, reporting, and other functions within the Technology Leadership group.
- Prepare before/after meeting actions, including briefs, summaries, action items, minutes, slides.
- Follow up on projects, summarize and escalate when necessary.
- Support (or drive if needed) the CTOs special projects
- Set-up and manage a CTO Dashboard to track overall Technology performance and OKRs
- Develop successful working relationships with the directors, heads of department and leads within the Technology organizations.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant software design and development experience, ideally in cloud based web applications
- Strong understanding of data modelling and data analysis.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Outstanding technical problem solving and debugging skills
- Usability Engineering/UX Design experience/training are a plus
- Extraordinary adaptability and curiosity are essential for this role
With over 35 nationalities across our offices in London, Lausanne, Madrid, Seattle and Beijing, you can certainly say that we are a diverse company. You will have the opportunity to work with teammates in other offices, as well as with researchers, editors and authors from across the globe.
Our Lausanne HQ (designed for us) is spread over 3 floors, including a large canteen with a Foosball table and a multi-purpose room used for regular free yoga classes. Our other offices are hosted at WeWork and include communal spaces with coffee bars and activities all week. We are very socially active and organize lots of fun activities, ranging from happy hours, parties, sports events and much more.
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holidays + Office Closure over the Christmas period
- Participation in the annual company bonus scheme
- Access to the latest equipment
- Extensive learning opportunities through our Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning partnership
- Great flexibility for working from home
- Lots of opportunities to work with exciting technologies and solve challenging problems.
Please submit your application in English.
Applicants must be Swiss or EU citizen (from a Schengen country) or have a valid Swiss work permit.
Thanks for your time checking the job description, if you think you can match with the role don't hesitate to send us your CV, we’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.