• Decision making: Takes ownership of decisions made in their team by helping their teammates make clear decisions in alignment with organizational goals, backing decisions made, and taking responsibility for their success. Raises awareness for how biases impact decisions and ensures accountability is practiced within their team. Demonstrates these behaviors themselves.
• Facilitation: Understands the boundaries of the LEGO domain map and bridges the gaps by facilitating collaboration and open discussions on cross domain topics, ensures transparency and handover if problems are identified elsewhere in the domain map.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability. Mentors’ members of other teams as needed. Spars with competency leads regarding team/people skillset and opportunities for growth, improvement and training.
• Recognizing teamwork: Engages in sponsoring, recognizing, and providing feedback to other team members both internal and external to their own product team.
• Engineering culture: Acts as a key driver behind establishing team processes, engineering practices and habits in the product team.
• Feedback: Actively seeks and proactively provides feedback both laterally across teams and upwards to the Engineering Delivery lead and shares technical direction transparently.
• Effective communication: Sets clear team vision and roadmap in collaboration with the Product trio taking into account technical debt the team owns and need to reduce and communicates them clearly both to the team and upwards through the OKR process.
• Showcase work: Acts as the technical representative for the product by leading on user/customer collaboration throughout all stages of product lifecycle and nurturing a sharing culture in the team
• Documentation: Drives the engineering culture by continuously participating and contributing to cross organizational initiatives and strategy development by engaging in community discussions and documentations.
• Relationship building: Works to build and improve strong relationships with their teammates, senior engineering manager, their teams’ relevant business stakeholders, and lead engineers across their domain. Leverages relationships to better plan for and position their team.
• Handling disagreements: Fosters a culture within their team where people are encouraged to share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner, approach disagreement non-defensively and uses contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations. Is open to changing their perspective and plans based on others’ input.