Red Badger

About the Company

Red Badger is the digital product transformation consultancy for blue chips and scale-ups. We work at the heart of organisations on the tough, complex challenges that get them close to customers. Red Badger delivers digital products that matter and that customers love. Making a positive impact where others fail, we embed new ways of working and build high performance platforms primed for innovation. Red Badger creates lasting business change through integrating robust product design with deep engineering expertise.

Clients include Tesco, Levi's, Nando's, Santander, BBC, NHS and Sky.
Visit: www.red-badger.com and follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Company Name

Red Badger

Job Title

Principal Software Consultant

Job Description

Freelance (outside IR35)
Immediate start
6 Months +
£competitive day rate
2/3 days / week in person working (Old Street)
Retail (e-commerce) or FS experience


We are looking for an Interim (Freelance) Tech Director to join Red Badger.


As Interim Tech Director, you'll take the lead on shaping & delivering complex and interesting client engagements. Often working closely and collaboratively with a Managing Director, Product Director and Delivery Director, together you'll be leading both operationally and strategically to promote joy, quality and growth throughout Red Badger. You will also help to build opportunities for meaningful work to clients and badgers alike.


Key responsibilities


Lead and Manage Client Accounts

Lead and own client accounts and work streams, from shaping a project to delivering
agreed outcomes.
Become a trusted advisor for our clients by collaborating with them to solve problems,
and create products and services which deliver business and customer value.
Be accountable for complex digital transformation projects and help shape the
technical direction of the client’s product delivery.
Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client teams.
Negotiate and manage client commercial agreements.
Set up and shape appropriate Red Badger teams for our clients.


Sales and Network development

Support with qualifying and shaping early-stage opportunities, and create proposals
for new or existing clients.
Work with sales and marketing teams to activate and grow your client network.
Lead sales activities, from pitching and planning, through to commercials all the way to
to project kick off.


Ensure Red Badger Quality and Approach

Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross functional teams, agile and lean best
practices, delivering value early, building quality in.
Understand and communicate our cross functional value chain (Engineering, QA, UXD,
Product, and Delivery).
Drive continuous improvement, quality and project delivery.
Provide technical guidance to the delivery team
Directly guide the technical strategy for our clients
Work across one or more projects/delivery streams
Build out new technology competencies within Red Badger


Your experience

It’d be great if you have

Background in full stack DevOps and have built complex digital products.
Experience in consulting
Solved complex problems and organised others to see ideas through to
fruition
Had a senior engineering role in the creation of a customer-facing digital
product
Experience in sales and are confident in shaping an engagement strategy with
a new or existing client.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

07-03-2025