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Ready Education · 2 months ago

CTO

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

Ready Education is a global tech startup focused on helping students succeed. The CTO will lead the engineering and product management teams, prioritizing and executing the product roadmap while integrating and unifying the platform.

EducationMobile

Responsibilities

Own engineering and the product roadmap and act as the primary thought leader and visionary for all technology and product areas at Ready Education

Refine and evolve a clear and innovative technical roadmap, emphasising scalability, performance, security, compliance, and overall enhancement of the customer experience

Bring true leadership and elevated energy to the engineering and product orgs

Work closely with the CEO and executive team to ensure support for and alignment around all product/engineering activities

Drive technical decisions, execution and be a strategic partner in identifying and evaluating M&A opportunities. Heavy process improvement post-acquisitions including product and team integration

Optimise and drive greater efficiency in the technology organisation. Implement and achieve continuous integration and delivery, ensure greater visibility and predictability around processes, QA, etc

Increase the velocity, capacity, and scalability of the team. Instil a sense of urgency in the culture, and be a change-agent, optimising the way the team operates. Recruit and retain the “best and brightest” talent

Serve as the technology face of the Ready Education executive team both internally and externally, actively building relationships with customers, partners, and industry thought leaders. Evangelise the Ready Education solution and technology platform

Serve as a customer advocate in the development process, working closely with customers to deeply understand their needs and anticipate market developments to drive roadmap strategy

Qualification

SaaS experienceMobile experienceFull stack experienceM&A integrationDistributed engineering teamsProduct roadmap developmentCommercial orientationGlobal data protectionChange managementCollaboration skillsLeadership skills

Required

Strong alignment with Ready's culture, as defined by our core values (student success first, accomplish more as a team, have a learning mentality, move fast and innovate)

SaaS, mobile and full stack experience

Success building, leading and growing distributed engineering teams

Experience integrating multiple teams, products and technologies via M&A into a shared/common platform

Ability to collaborate effectively with all stakeholders (sales, marketing, customers, board, CS…) to develop product roadmaps

Strong commercial orientation- proven background of building products and features which drive customer value, high adoption and revenue

Proven ability to deliver to committed timelines transparently

Global data protection experience (GDPR, FERPA, etc)