Head of Infrastructure & Platform, CLARK
Digital insurance manager
Open for applications
Digital insurance manager
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make insurance simple and help to insure people properly.
Role
Who you are
- Technical leadership: Ability to set technical goals that can show the business impact they deliver. Experience with managing a roadmap of technical changes that strengthen and unify our technical landscape and working with a budget
- People Leadership: Proven record in managing technical teams and fostering the professional growth of employees
- Strategic Vision: Strong understanding of how infrastructure and developer productivity impact product delivery, cost, and operational efficiency and how this translates to the overall business success
- Technical Proficiency: Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Terraform) and developer productivity tools (Jenkins, Backstage, Sentry). Understanding of the development lifecycle and hands-on development experience
- Vendor management: Experience in selecting and managing vendors and maintaining beneficial relationships
- Communication Skills: Ability to work with the business and leadership side to create understanding for what the team is doing and how this impacts the overall business
- Excellent English skills, both spoken and written. German skills are a plus
- The ability to work in an agile multi-national, distributed organization
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a strategic, people-oriented leader to drive the evolution of our Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Experience team
- Technical Leadership: Balance cost-conscious infrastructure management with reliability, scalability, and security on platforms like AWS and Kubernetes
- Operational Exellence: Ensuring smooth operation of our products and development infrastructure and making sure product teams have the right tools to understand and improve those aspects of their systems, as well
- Developer Productivity: Optimize our development tool stack, aligning it with business needs and bring together a fragmented mix of tools to maximize developer efficiency
- Team Development: Lead and mentor a talented Core Platform team, building cohesion and ensure each team member is able to produce impactful results
- Service Improvement: Work closely with our development teams, our Staff Engineers, Information Security and Compliance to develop a roadmap of development improvements
- Collaboration: Engage with product and tech leaders to ensure our infrastructure and developer experience strategies support broader business objectives
Our take
The insurance sector has been undergoing a period of radical digital transformation over recent years. Gone are the days of imperfect policy fits, time-consuming shopping, and lengthy exchanges with dubious brokers. A wave of startups are making insurance faster, easier, and more on-demand than ever, and the newly minted Unicorn app CLARK is proving to be a major player.
Operating in Germany and Austria, the CLARK app allows insurance customers to manage and monitor all their contracts from a single hub. It works like an independent insurance advisor, keeping users abreast of expiry dates, policy changes, and recommending policy improvements by scanning different rates from over 180 insurers.
The German insurtech market is especially strong relative to its European counterparts, thanks to impressive international investment, careful government regulation, and a fertile, collaborative ecosystem. This has meant, however, that the market has reached a matured period of slower growth and consolidation. This means CLARK has to keep pace with similarly commanding startups like Wefox and INZMO, maintaining its momentum through acquisitions of smaller companies such as SimpleInsurance Broker.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2021
$71.9m
SERIES C
Apr 2018
$29m
SERIES B
Total funding: $116.7m
Company benefits
- You are encouraged to contribute your ideas and initiatives
- Free drinks, fresh fruit and delicious coffee
- Flexible working hours
- Cultural initiatives such as team events, Monday morning check-in and hopefully soon our monthly team breakfast & lunch
Company values
- Can Do. Be positive towards challenges.
- Think Team. Care for your fellow Clarkees.
- Execute Fast. Score the touchdown.
- Seek Simple. Achieve the same with less.
Company HQ
Bahnhofsviertel, Frankfurt, Germany
Articles
Leadership
Chris Lodde
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously held senior digital marketing and sales positions at SMP AG Strategy Consulting, then Sun Capital Partners. Subsequently served as VP of digital banking at Commerzbank AG.
Marco Adelt
(Shareholder, Executive Advisor & Co-Founder)Consulted for financial services at Capgemini Consulting, then moved into a role as senior project manager at Horváth & Partners Management Consultants.
Christopher Oster
(Supervisory Board Member & Co-Founder)Worked with BCG as a consultant, then served as Rocket Internet's COO.
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