The Role
Lead the digital workplace initiative at PPRO by enhancing colleague experiences, managing technology culture, and ensuring security and compliance.
Summary Generated by Built In
At PPRO, our mission is to simplify access to local payment methods and our vision is to enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay. We empower partners such as Ant Group, PayPal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.
Our strength lies in our diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations- all united around one goal – to deliver the best possible products and services to our partners and customers. While our company mission is to keep innovating global commerce, our internal mission is to #chooseaction, #beopen, #thinkcustomer, #gofurther and #wintogether
The Purpose:
Digital Workplace's mission is to enable PPRO colleagues to do their best work by providing a delightful, frictionless, innovative and secure experience. As the leader, you will be responsible for delivering this mission, setting the strategy and bringing people together to deliver it.
Your impact in this role:
- We put the customer first: Work with stakeholders and the team to design the target digital workplace experience to maximise colleague productivity. Define the strategy to achieve the target experience, quantify success and clearly articulate areas for investment.
- We get things done: Establish operational and project cycles within the team to deliver strategic results and support our colleagues around the world. Driving the technology culture to simplify and automate routine tasks and increase productivity.
- We make things better: Work with external vendors and partners to enhance our colleague offering and ensure a seamless experience.
- We act with trust and integrity: Take ownership of security and compliance within the team and beyond, enabling colleagues to do their jobs efficiently and safely.
Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with:
- Collaboration tools: Google Workspace, Slack, Miro
- VMware Workspace ONE
- Okta
- Atlassian (Jira, Service Desk, Confluence)
- Gemini, OpenAI
- AWS
What would make you a great fit:
- Track record of designing and implementing an integrated digital workplace experience in a technology leadership role with both project and operational responsibilities.
- Experience in bringing product and software engineering best practices to the digital workplace (problem understanding, solution and system design, platform as code, etc.).
- Experience in implementing and maintaining robust security controls in a user-friendly way, ensuring compliance and security awareness without hindering productivity.
- Strong collaboration skills to work with business leaders on all levels to understand requirements and translate them into technical capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience leading globally distributed team members.
- Efficient budget management by making informed investment decisions that are aligned with the overall business budget and objectives.
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience of working in a regulated environment.
What's in it for you ? :
Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working. In addition to our 30-day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year
Learning and Development - We offer a €1,000 annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.
Insurance - Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including accident insurance, disability insurance, direct insurance (bAV) and travel insurance.
Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.
Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet
Mental Health Platform - We’ve teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.
Our office - Located on St.-Martin-Straße, one stop from Ostbahnhof on the 3 and 7 S-lines. The office is situated in a modern and spacious building with fully multimedia-equipped meeting rooms for up to 30 people. The 4th floor features a kitchen and a lunch area, providing a comfortable space for meals and breaks.
Pet-friendly office- Because work is better with your paw-tners by your side
Our Principles:
We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done.
We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent
We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do.
We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.
We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.
Top Skills
Atlassian
AWS
Confluence
Gemini
Google Workspace
JIRA
Miro
Okta
Openai
Service Desk
Slack
Vmware Workspace One
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The Company
What We Do
PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payments infrastructure to businesses and banks so that they can scale their checkout, acquiring, and risk services through one connection. Payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants that plug into PPRO’s infrastructure are able to access payment methods, fraud screening tools, and other essential products from multiple providers. Every product can be deployed and controlled with clicks, not code. And with the company's orchestration layer directing process flows and data like clockwork, PPRO’s partners can rest easy knowing they’re delivering seamless end-to-end services to their customers. Citi, PayPal, and Stripe are just some of the names that depend on PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of digital payments.
