Demo Experience Technical Lead

Moodle with us!

At Moodle, we’re on a mission to empower educators and learners worldwide with open, flexible, and innovative digital learning solutions. As the world’s most customisable and trusted open-source LMS, we partner with schools, universities, and organisations to create better learning experiences for millions. If you’re ready to make a real impact,  and be part of a global movement shaping the future of learning, join us let’s transform education together!

About the Role

This is a really exciting time to be joining Moodle in a key role underpinning Moodle’s new strategic focus. It’s a rare opportunity to build your team from scratch and support sales teams in demoing cutting edge Moodle instances. This role is ideal for a manager who truly thrives on getting the best out of their team, and who also brings their own creative flair and a noteworthy background in software development.

This role is open within Europe.

What You’ll Do

Most days in this role usually involve a mix of:

• Overseeing the design, development, and ongoing updates of demo sites.
• Ensuring demo sites function smoothly and are updated regularly with new product releases.
• Collaborating with the UX/Graphic Designer to ensure demo sites offer a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Gathering feedback and insights from internal teams like product managers, marketing, partner, and sales.
• Tailoring demo sites to different customer needs, demonstrating Moodle's value propositions.
• Developing and maintaining a clear roadmap and vision for exemplary demo sites.
• Ensuring demo sites generate leads and serve as a sales and marketing tool.
• Supporting sales teams by creating in-house demonstrations of Moodle's capabilities.
• Promoting a positive team culture aligned with Moodle's values.
• Actively manage and lead team members, fostering their professional growth.
• Reviewing team performance, implementing development plans, and conducting feedback sessions.
• Supporting recruitment and managing onboarding for new team members.
• Driving the implementation of agile methodologies within the team.
• Leading planning and execution of team projects, ensuring delivery for each release.
• Tracking team progress on Jira and reporting progress to leadership.

We’d love to meet you

Especially if you can tell us about your:

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or equivalent commercial experience
• Experience managing a team within a web development, design, or product management environment.
• Ability to demonstrate empathy with the end-user's needs and perspective.
• Understanding of software development, design principles, and best practices thoroughly.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Solutions-focused attitude and is a strong team player.
• High organisation skills and ability to manage your workload to meet deadlines

Bonus Points 

• Experience in people leadership, mentoring and coaching.
• Similar LMS/Industry/Demonstration Building experience
• Understanding of Moodle

What's in it for you?

Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

In addition to this you can expect:

• Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in the world

• A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and ‘choosing your own adventure.’
• Working with a global team on a worldwide platform and make a real difference.
• As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good.

Learn more about Moodle

Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution, with a growing ecosystem of products and services, including Moodle Workplace, Moodle App, MoodleCloud, and more. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by well over 300 million learners worldwide. 

Find out more about us on our website.

At Moodle we are an equal opportunity employer that actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to fair recruitment and selection practices, ensuring we are drawing from a diverse range of sources to attract and select the very best person for the job. Learn more in our Diversity & Inclusion Charter.