Five Jars Corp
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New York City, NY
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Permanent
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Full-time
Five Jars is looking for a Chief Technology Officer to manage the company’s technologies, engineers, IT support, and tech partners and conduct due diligence operations.
If you are an ambitious person ready to take on a new challenge and know how to manage and support software development teams, we have a great opportunity for you!
Day-to-day responsibilities
Responsibilities that candidates will have daily.
Strategy & Leadership (30%)
- Build a technological vision for the company for 1, 3, 5 years;
- Build Development/Support/QA team OKRs and strategy;
- Ensuring tech strategy is aligned with business targets;
- Build relationships with technology partners (like Platform.sh). Lead and oversee the certification process;
- Continuously research and build a roadmap for CMSs, frameworks, and technologies we use and will use;
- Verify all technological practices adhere to regulatory standards and compliance;
- Identify and implement innovative technologies that yield competitive advantage;
- Grow the technical culture in the company
- Be the product owner of the internal technical services, identify problems and create new technical decisions to solve it;
- Build a learning and education roadmap for the development team (overall and individually) to grow professionally (courses, new technologies, new approaches);
- Participate in performance reviews and help tech team members grow.
Pre-Sales (30%)
- Attend pre-sales meetings and perform clients interview for technical direction;
- Build architecture and estimates for new projects;
- Preparing proposals in collaboration with the sales team;
- Analyze the requirements and propose technical solutions;
- Estimate projects and provide estimate reviews;
- Present proposals to the client and represent the team from the technical standpoint;
- Hand over won projects to delivery teams and ensure that all findings and expectations of the pre-sales phase are captured and understood;
- Unify process of estimations;
- Improving the quality of project estimation (understanding competitors, analyzing previous results, improving tools);
Delivery (30%)
- Consult team and work closely on the architecture and approach with Tech Leads and Solutions Architect;
- Consult team and work closely on the strategy and roadmap of the QA team;
- Consult prospective and existing clients on technical solutions;
- Serve as a bridge between sales and delivery teams;
- Provide project delivery management and help in hiring proper people;
- Improving the projects’ quality (implementation of processes for technical mentoring, supervision, code review, etc.);
- Maintaining the price-quality resource balance (hiring talented juniors and helping them to grow, cooperating with the recruitment department to find high-experienced candidates for complex tasks);
- Reducing the price of the project by reusing our experience on other projects
Marketing (10%) – non-billable
- Build relationships and be an active technology community member (Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, etc.)
- Build relationships and be an active member of industry-specific communities (Tessitura, YMCA and etc.)
- Participate in marketing activities, like doing research, recording videos, and providing information for blog posts
- Represent the company from the technical standpoint on conferences and events
Professional skills.
Required professional skills for being successful with goals and responsibilities.
Hard skills
- Experience in a team lead, lead developer, or similar position that includes pre-sales, architecture, and technical delivery;
- Knowledge of PHP, Drupal, Symfony, or Laravel;
- Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks;
- Knowledge of DevOps tools and processes;
- Excellent English;
- Pre-sales/Sales experience.
Soft-skills
- Responsibility and leadership by example;
- Pro-activity and ability to find solutions to project challenges;
- Easy to communicate ;
As a plus:
- Open source contributions;
- Someone from the Drupal Ukraine Community or another country Drupal community;
- Speaking at events and conferences.
We Propose
- 100% remote work;
- Fair compensation;
- Benefits such as vacation, sick leave, a day off during official national holidays;
- Flexible schedule and 7-hour working day;
- Regular Friday Open Microphones about different tech things from other team members;
- Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc.);
- Support in participating in conferences;
- Warm and friendly working environment;
- Flexibility in making decisions, no micromanagement;
- Respect and support with all activities;
- Team building and other sorts of online/offline team activities.
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