ROLE DESCRIPTION
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
OVERVIEW
Literacy Planet is a highly successful, Gold Coast based start-up delivering online educational tools and content to teachers, school students and parents. We have seen fantastic growth in Australia and we are taking this product to the World wide stage.
To help us deliver these growth plans, we need an experienced, passionate and highly energetic CTO to shape our IT capability and deliver some truly exciting innovation.
This is a senior role, acting as the right hand to the CEO and operating across the business in the capacity as owner of technical delivery and product execution.
The ideal recruit will have had previous experience within a successful start-up in a similar capacity, not necessarily in Australia.
This is a fantastic, unprecedented opportunity to join an ethical, fun company which is at an exciting inflection point. Join us at the right time and help us change the World!
RESPONSIBILITIES
The CTO will be responsible for maintaining and evolving the delivery capability within LiteracyPlanet.
Overall responsibilities will include:
- Implementing, managing, monitoring and evolving an end-to-end agile development process
- Working with product owners across the business to champion the use of product backlogs, prioritisation and SCRUM
- Implementing, managing and monitoring best practice testing, continuous integration and technical quality assurance
- Ensuring the application is secure, stable and scalable
- Striking the right balance of process, rigour and fun to maintain the younger, high energy, high passion culture
- Participating in business strategy planning (adding the technical and product angle)
- Formulating a high level product development roadmap, managing this through to delivery using agile methodology
- Working closely with the creative director to visually articulate and story board concepts, maintaining a balance of what is implementable vs. what delivers value to customers
- Providing transparent, relevant delivery and execution updates to the executive board, managing feedback appropriately
- Encouraging collaboration and innovation across the whole team
- Perform the day-to-day management, coaching and mentoring of the development team (including objective setting, review and development)
- As various business objectives are met, play a critical role in scaling the delivery capability through the recruitment of staff and evolution of agile process whilst ensuring consistency and culture
- Highly energetic, quick to think but considered and balanced when acting
- Authoritative, conveying gravitas and confidence
- Passionate about delivering the right outcomes using best practice but also balanced in an approach to managing MVP
- Tenacious with a strong desire to understand, analyse and rectify any technology challenge using the resources and expertise around you
- Able to take your team on a journey through a challenge or requirement, conveying passion and belief
- Not necessary to have a coding background but must have been a hands on development leader or manager for at least 5 years
- Must have played a key role in an online, small to medium sized early venture which has been successful and has gone through its initial growth phase
- Proven experience implementing agile process in various (multiple) businesses and teams
- Proven experience managing senior stakeholders and articulating technology and product solutions at board level
- Experience operating as the technical or product specialist within investment rounds and investment road shows, putting the correct ‘optics’ on technology and product capabilities, assets and strategic plans
- Proven experience managing multiple project and product development deliverables, often with complex dependencies (resource and technology)
- Experience as a product owner or product manager within an online or ecommerce environment
- International experience preferred
- Any experience within online education may be a bonus but is not essential
- Ideally educated to degree level, though not essential. This does not rule out a candidate with excellent, well matched experience and personality
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
The CTO will be calm under pressure, tenacious when it comes to delivery and user experience and thorough throughout their planning
Personal attributes which would make a great CTO at LiteracyPlanet are:
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
EDUCATION
if you think that you have what it takes - please contact admin@intrepica.com.au or +61 7 5656 9696