Team Lead IT

Ankorstore is an ecosystem that enables independent brands and retailers to thrive.

We're on a mission to rewild retail and restore it to its natural order by empowering brands and retailers to grow freely, embrace their creativity, and stay competitive.

Our platform harnesses the power of technology to create a mutually beneficial community that reinvents the way brands and retailers work together.

With decades of experience in retail and building marketplaces, in 2019 the Ankorstore founding team knew it was time to create a global wholesale solution to swing the balance in favor of independents and return them to their rightful place - at the centre of their communities.

Just two short years later, we've grown to a team of over 650 employees operating across seven offices worldwide, and we'll grow even more in 2022. After fundraising in January 2022, taking our total funding to ?365 million, Ankorstore is thrilled to have achieved "unicorn" status in just two years.

• We're scaling fast and looking to grow our team with world-class candidates to support our vision of rewilding retail!
• What will you do as a IT Team Lead?

We're moving fast to build the best products for our brands and retailers. In 2022 we plan to triple our engineering team by hiring at least 150 new technical roles. We plan to deepen our expertise in the backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure, and other areas to help us build out our platform.

Your mission will be to build and integrate information and computer systems that meet specific needs. Integrating the software and hardware that will best meet the purpose defined by a customer. Examine the current systems architecture, and work with business and technical staff to recommend solutions that result in more effective systems.

We are looking for a true team-player, manager and coach and will help us to execute our most important IT related projects.

Responsibilities of the IT Team Lead to focus on:

What you will do:

• Manage, coach and mentor the IT team in EMEA
• Help us in implement our IT projects,
• Keep yourself and your colleagues up and running in our offices. That includes laptops, telephony and office peripherals
• Help us in our future ambitions of network authentication, onboarding automation, (further) monitoring, etc
• Help organise the purchase of hardware and software
• Continuously evaluate user needs and system functionality, ensuring that the IT offering meets those
• Simplify identity and access management infrastructure
• Take part in the asset management lifecycle (provision, maintain, etc)

Job Requirements:

• A collaborative and "team player" mentality.
• Strong knowledge of Mac systems. Windows and/or Linux are nice to have.
• Proven experience of having worked in an IT engineering position for a minimum of 2 to 3 years.
• Proven experience of having managed an IT team for a minimum of 1 to 2 years.
• You can actively contribute to our organisational policies regarding quality standards and strategic planning
• Knowledge of MDM (Mosyle and Intune), IDP (Okta), Google Workspace and Atlassian Jira
• Network skills are nice to have

Why work for Ankorstore?

• A highly dynamic environment in a fast scaling company at a stage where you will able to shape things autonomously and participate to the future of the organisation
• A real playground for development with exciting career opportunities, locally or internationally, with strong mentors
• Unique opportunity to join one of the fastest growing European startups just after series C
• Working with a very ambitious & mission-driven team backed by powerful VCs (Tiger Global, Bain Capital, Bond, Index Ventures, and more)
• Competitive compensation
• Strong values, a real purpose-driven company
• International environment, remote first
• Location: Europe, preferably in one of our main markets (UK, Netherlands,)

You've read all this way but you're missing a skill or two? No problem, it's our job to up-skill you to take your career to the next level. What we're trying to say is, don't be afraid to apply if you don't tick all the boxes!

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.