Scaling Tech Teams Meetup

What’s Happening in ZA Tech Hiring?

📆 26 February 2025    ⏰ 10:00 SAST  📍 Online
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📅  Bi-Weekly, on a Wednesday
⏰  10:00 SAST
📍  Online

Navigating the intricacies of growing a technology team? Overseeing the transformation of a startup into a tech giant? Or perhaps architecting the perfect strategy to keep up with your company's rapid expansion? Here's where leaders unite to learn, share, and grow.

Scaling Tech Teams is an exclusive online community designed for the best of tech leadership. Every 2 weeks we host online forums designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Please note: seats are limited, and only those in Tech Leadership roles will be accepted to join this event.

Topics we'll be covering

💡 22 November: Creating a thriving team culture for retention
💡 6 December: Building new products and pivoting once you’re “big”
💡 17 January: Decoding the tech job market in 2024
💡 31 January: Exclusive preview of the SODN 2024 report data
💡 14 February: Learnings from raising funding in the current market
💡 28 February: Leveraging the market to attract and retain senior developers
💡 13 March: Techniques for terrible leadership, and how to avoid it
💡 27 March: Turning Juniors into Seniors
💡 10 April: Making your First Engineering Hires
💡 25 April: The do’s and don’t of interviewing
💡 7 May: Managing developer performance
💡 22 May: Making you and your dev team AI enabled
💡 5 June: How Product, Design and Dev work together
💡 19 June: Being a Product/tech leader in the broader leadership team
💡 3 July: Tech's role in supporting sales

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Meet the hosts

Philip Joubert
Co-Founder, OfferZen

Philip is a co-founder of OfferZen, a marketplace where software developers can find meaningful work that pays well. Philip co-founded JourneyApps (raised funding in Silicon Valley) and Pondering Panda (exit). He also founded AppsAgainstEbola, a non-profit project which provided data gathering tech to NGOs in West Africa during the Ebola crisis. He has a degree in industrial engineering.

Stephen van der Heijden
VP Community, OfferZen

Since his first job at a small tech start-up, Stephen has gained experience across Africa, primarily in building marketplace businesses. Currently, as the VP of Community at OfferZen, his main focus is on continuously making an increased impact on the global software community. He spends a lot of time thinking and reading about the rising role and responsibility of software engineering in our society, and how we can organise ourselves to build a better future.