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Summary

The Department/Service Area Director enables people to specialize as a center of excellence leader or domain expert that's accountable for the successful mission of a service offering, industry, domain, or account. Director accountability typically includes meeting marketing, sales, recruiting, and delivery expectations per quality, revenue, margin, team and client satisfaction metrics.

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Director of Department/Service Area

E.g., Director of DevOps, Director of Front-end Services

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  • Accountable for defining and executing the service area career journey

  • Accountable for recruitment, retention, and staffing of service area operations

  • Accountable for attending and encouraging team member participation in recurring Team Empowerment meetings

    • Validated by attendance and discussing team-related concerns/suggestions with Team Coach prior to the Team Empowerment meetings

  • Accountable for at least quarterly service area retrospective and outcomes sharing with relevant people

  • Accountable for the service area's delivery improvement program

    • Validated by identified certified technical managers

  • Accountable for grooming and executing service area backlog

    • Validated by the regular and reasonable completion, review, or cancelation flow of program and task activities

Regularly participate in career development activities

  • Accountable for at least monthly conversations, feedback, and recognition for self and managed team members

    • Validated by 1-1s held, performance management task completion, and Officevibe feedback being acknowledged

  • Accountable for at least quarterly self and managed team member performance reviews

  • Responsible for obtaining own relevant role certifications, within a year of accepting this role

  • Responsible for actively demonstrating Axelerant core values

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