Description
The Chief Technology Officer`s role is to ensure the successful execution of our company`s business mission through development, deployment and marketplace positioning of the company`s mobile application. This requires shaping the company`s service offerings as a mobile app-based business, leading implementation of mobile app applications, and planning for risk and growth. This individual will elevate and transform the company`s mobile technology presence in the non-profit industry.
Responsibilities
Strategy, Planning & Market Positioning
• In partnership with the company`s founders, identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company`s mobile-app based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success.
• Identify technology trends and evolving social behavior that may support or impede the success of the business.
• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including mobile app application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering future services.
• Identify and facilitate external-facing technology discussions within the marketplace to advocate use of the company`s mobile app technology and drive its scalability across the non-profit industry.
• Identify and lead customer-facing discussions that further the organization`s marketplace presence.
• Attend industry conferences to represent company and the organization`s marketplace presence.
• Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all mobile app-based services.
• Participate as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization`s resources are used responsibly, particularly in the areas of software development, office networks and computers, and telecommunications.
• Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.
• Establish a governance process that meets government, partner, and company expectations for customer information privacy.
• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company`s data and servers.
• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
• Communicate the company`s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.
Infrastructure Management
• Select and set up a software revision control system and repository (in the absence of a system administrator).
• Select and set up mobile app-based internal communications systems, such as a wiki, blog, chatroom, project management, and bug tracking systems (in the absence of a system administrator).
• Collaborate with the founders and potential customers to develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications for future mobile app releases
• Collaborate with a User Experience Designer and potential customers to prepare wireframes or mockups of future release prototypes
• Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will implement designs of future mobile app releases, conforming to mobile app standards.
• Select or define the company`s software development methodology.
• Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen based on user stories and the User Experience design.
• Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards.
• Review current best practices for the selected mobile app framework and establish the initial architecture for the application.
• Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will manage the mobile app infrastructure
• Establish and supervise the software development process for future releases, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the selected software development methodology.
• Conduct code reviews and specification conformance testing as defined by the selected software development methodology.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.
• Select, deploy, and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures.
• Review and approve proposed development releases and manage the release process.
• Evaluate and select mobile app application hosting providers.
• Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers.
• Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.
• Establish and monitor a mobile app analytics regime that measures site traffic and application usage relative to business goals.
• Support the marketing process by providing implementation of technical requirements for Internet marketing and search engine optimization.
• As a member of the senior management team, establish a customer service and support process, with particular responsibility for mobile app-based services that implement the support function. Establish a process to integrate customer service and support with the software engineering process to support resolution of customer issues and improve application usability.
Operational Management
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely (including reading your peers` blogs!).
• Define and communicate company values and standards for acquiring or developing systems, equipment, or software within the company.
• Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.
• Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization`s investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company`s technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.
• Ensure company technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Develop, track, and control the development and deployment annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations.
• Supervise recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all development staff in accordance with the company hiring process, personnel policies, and budget requirements.
• Establish standards of performance and monitor conformance for staff (through performance review) and vendors (through service level agreements).
• Ensure the company`s internal technological processes and customer-facing services comply with community expectations and applicable laws and regulations for privacy, security, and social responsibility.
• Promote achievement of the company`s business goals within a context of community collaboration by developing policies for sharing software code, technological innovation, business processes, and other intellectual property.
• Contribute to open source software development, standardization of technologies, and evolution of best practices by collaborating with peers outside the company, releasing code, presenting at conferences, and writing for publication (online or offline).
Position Requirements
Formal Education & Certification
• University degree in the field of computer science, business administration, or another rigorous discipline. An advanced degree in one these fields is a plus.
Knowledge & Experience
• Demonstrated ability to envision mobile app-based services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems.
• 8+ years experience managing mobile app application development.
• 8+ years experience with startup companies.
• Hands-on experience coding in more than one currently popular mobile app application framework.
• Familiar with more than one software development methodology.
• Ability to discern user requirements and develop specifications.
• Has contributed to one or more open source projects.
• Skill with CSS, XHTML, one or more Javascript frameworks, and AJAX.
• Knowledge of mobile app standards.
• Experience with UNIX system administration and mobile app server configuration.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and RFC standards, database management systems, and revision control systems.
• Familiarity with technical requirements of Internet marketing and search engine optimization.
• Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
• Familiarity with consumer privacy and payments industry compliance requirements.
• Exposure to business theory, business process development, governance processes, management, budgeting, and administrative operations.
Elev8 Hire Solutions
Georgia
Description
The Chief Technology Officer`s role is to ensure the successful execution of our company`s business mission through development, deployment and marketplace positioning of the company`s mobile application. This requires shaping the company`s service offerings as a mobile app-based business, leading implementation of mobile app applications, and planning for risk ...
Description
The Chief Technology Officer`s role is to ensure the successful execution of our company`s business mission through development, deployment and marketplace positioning of the company`s mobile application. This requires shaping the company`s service offerings as a mobile app-based business, leading implementation of mobile app applications, and planning for risk and growth. This individual will elevate and transform the company`s mobile technology presence in the non-profit industry.
Responsibilities
Strategy, Planning & Market Positioning
• In partnership with the company`s founders, identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company`s mobile-app based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success.
• Identify technology trends and evolving social behavior that may support or impede the success of the business.
• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including mobile app application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering future services.
• Identify and facilitate external-facing technology discussions within the marketplace to advocate use of the company`s mobile app technology and drive its scalability across the non-profit industry.
• Identify and lead customer-facing discussions that further the organization`s marketplace presence.
• Attend industry conferences to represent company and the organization`s marketplace presence.
• Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all mobile app-based services.
• Participate as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization`s resources are used responsibly, particularly in the areas of software development, office networks and computers, and telecommunications.
• Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.
• Establish a governance process that meets government, partner, and company expectations for customer information privacy.
• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company`s data and servers.
• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
• Communicate the company`s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.
Infrastructure Management
• Select and set up a software revision control system and repository (in the absence of a system administrator).
• Select and set up mobile app-based internal communications systems, such as a wiki, blog, chatroom, project management, and bug tracking systems (in the absence of a system administrator).
• Collaborate with the founders and potential customers to develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications for future mobile app releases
• Collaborate with a User Experience Designer and potential customers to prepare wireframes or mockups of future release prototypes
• Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will implement designs of future mobile app releases, conforming to mobile app standards.
• Select or define the company`s software development methodology.
• Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen based on user stories and the User Experience design.
• Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards.
• Review current best practices for the selected mobile app framework and establish the initial architecture for the application.
• Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors who will manage the mobile app infrastructure
• Establish and supervise the software development process for future releases, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the selected software development methodology.
• Conduct code reviews and specification conformance testing as defined by the selected software development methodology.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.
• Select, deploy, and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures.
• Review and approve proposed development releases and manage the release process.
• Evaluate and select mobile app application hosting providers.
• Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers.
• Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.
• Establish and monitor a mobile app analytics regime that measures site traffic and application usage relative to business goals.
• Support the marketing process by providing implementation of technical requirements for Internet marketing and search engine optimization.
• As a member of the senior management team, establish a customer service and support process, with particular responsibility for mobile app-based services that implement the support function. Establish a process to integrate customer service and support with the software engineering process to support resolution of customer issues and improve application usability.
Operational Management
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely (including reading your peers` blogs!).
• Define and communicate company values and standards for acquiring or developing systems, equipment, or software within the company.
• Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.
• Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization`s investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company`s technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.
• Ensure company technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Develop, track, and control the development and deployment annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations.
• Supervise recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all development staff in accordance with the company hiring process, personnel policies, and budget requirements.
• Establish standards of performance and monitor conformance for staff (through performance review) and vendors (through service level agreements).
• Ensure the company`s internal technological processes and customer-facing services comply with community expectations and applicable laws and regulations for privacy, security, and social responsibility.
• Promote achievement of the company`s business goals within a context of community collaboration by developing policies for sharing software code, technological innovation, business processes, and other intellectual property.
• Contribute to open source software development, standardization of technologies, and evolution of best practices by collaborating with peers outside the company, releasing code, presenting at conferences, and writing for publication (online or offline).
Position Requirements
Formal Education & Certification
• University degree in the field of computer science, business administration, or another rigorous discipline. An advanced degree in one these fields is a plus.
Knowledge & Experience
• Demonstrated ability to envision mobile app-based services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems.
• 8+ years experience managing mobile app application development.
• 8+ years experience with startup companies.
• Hands-on experience coding in more than one currently popular mobile app application framework.
• Familiar with more than one software development methodology.
• Ability to discern user requirements and develop specifications.
• Has contributed to one or more open source projects.
• Skill with CSS, XHTML, one or more Javascript frameworks, and AJAX.
• Knowledge of mobile app standards.
• Experience with UNIX system administration and mobile app server configuration.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and RFC standards, database management systems, and revision control systems.
• Familiarity with technical requirements of Internet marketing and search engine optimization.
• Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
• Familiarity with consumer privacy and payments industry compliance requirements.
• Exposure to business theory, business process development, governance processes, management, budgeting, and administrative operations.