Are you the new Head of Technology for Gyldendals award-winning and market-leading services?

Edtech, Health Tech, Legal Tech and E-commerce may not be the first things that come to mind when you think of Gyldendal, but these are all areas that we are currently working with in our department of Services and Growth!  

Gyldendal Group is Norway’s leading player in the book industry. But thinking beyond the book and exploring the opportunities within technology and digital services is one of their main focus areas. They are currently developing award-winning and market-leading services within education, health, law and e-commerce. But you will not stay on top of the market for a hundred years if you’re not investing in innovation.
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Services and Growth as an area aim to facilitate innovation across the entire Gyldendal Group. The mandate is clear and it is a short way from idea to realization, experiments and concrete products.

It is often more important to build something that works, than to wait until it is perfect!

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Are you a person who is triggered by rapid development and wants to build a development team that can withstand both success and failure?

With us, you get the entire value chain under one roof and a mandate to play, test and quickly develop MVPs for new services.

As Head of Technology you will be part of a development journey that makes sense. You will join the early stages of an environment with large resources, strong professional competence and have a strong influence on Gyldendal's investment in digital services in the time ahead.

Here you have some nice examples of what we have been working on lately.

• Award-winning storytelling for instagram "This will be between us" (“Dette blir mellom oss”)
• New distribution channel for books in Norway's smallest bookstore pokket.no
• New digital content services for ARK, Norway's largest bookstore
  

Exciting?
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In order for you to quickly find out if this is something for you, we have recorded a job podcast where you can get to know us and your future colleagues better.  
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We hope it gives you value! Please note - the podcast is in Norwegian.

Your areas of responsibility

• Contribute to growth and new services for our companies
• Ensure that we make the best technology choices and increase our innovation rate
• Identify and effectively utilize the assets with us and our partners
• Build and lead development teams
  
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Desired knowledge / experience

To solve the work tasks, we believe you have experience with the following:

• Streaming technologies and streaming components
• Advanced system architecture
• API network
• Interested in building and leading development teams
  
  

Room for action and development

Gyldendal Group has a strong market position and solid resources with few limitations.

In this position you will work with complex systems and be on a journey of change that will give you educational challenges. Then it is good to know that Gyldendal has a large and solid technology environment with high competence that values professional development. There will be room for courses and further education.

Gyldendal Group has interested and involved owners, short reporting paths, committed management and very little friction between owner and product managers.

There is a strong will to invest internally and you will gain the trust and resources you need to succeed.

Salary and conditions

You will receive a competitive salary, as well as solid insurance and pension schemes.

Do you want to talk to us? Listen to this job podcast and contact Happii's recruitment consultant, Maria Halseth, directly by e-mail: maria@happii.no or telephone: 481 02 275.

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