Reverse Ventures is building out it's Cape Town office and we are looking for a Chief Technology Officer to join our venture building team. You will be part of a self-organised agile team that is working on designing and developing use cases from ideas to prototypes to products.
We are looking for CTO to lead the day-to-day development process, inform strategic technology and architecture decisions and guide venture team throughout the venture design lifecycle.
They will be an innovator, strategic thinker, and thought partner to the corporate partner CEO and other leaders. The CTO will have a track-record of delivering and scaling products and solutions that surprise and delight users and customers. They will set the stage for high performance, support initiative, and encourage accountability at all levels of the organization.
Duties and responsibilities
You will have a unique opportunity to guide venture outcomes relating to technology stack, architecture and development roadmap. As a venture design CTO, you will be involved in the venture design process from start to finish, providing strategic input at each stage of design and setup guard rails for governance and effective delivery of MVPs and products at scale.
You will be responsible for following areas within the business:
- Contribute to the strategic direction of the Venture with technical thought-leadership, and translate business initiatives into technical strategy
- Lead the design of technical architecture and infrastructure to support enterprise-level scale needs
- Key decision-maker who chooses the tech stack, programming language, and framework
- Collaborate, inform and execute on product vision and roadmap to bring solutions to market on time and on budget
- Collaboratively partner with other teams within the organization to drive business outcomes; working closely with design and business teams and provide strategic input into art-of-the-possible throughout the venture design process
- Developing strategies for advancing partnerships, technology platforms, and external relationships
- Ensure venture architecture is future-fit and allows for potential integration into corporate partners existing technology landscape
- Take a customer centric approach to selecting the right technology to engage with end users of venture products
- Conducting technical reviews of products and solutions to evaluate their applicability
- Put in place measures to track product success, monitor product management metrics, and review technological strategies
Requirements and qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in positions of increasing responsibility and leadership of technology and/or software engineering teams, culminating in the target role
- Experience in development of early stage digital products and businesses
- In depth understanding of full technology architecture landscape and Software Development Lifecycle
- Demonstrated ability to meet the strategic business needs though technical execution
- Established experience architecting enterprise-class systems at scale
- Successful product launches dependent upon effective cross-functional collaboration and utilizing rapid development cycle
- Passion for deeply understanding customer needs and wants
- Demonstrated experience bringing to market data-driven platforms (vs. applications only)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Preferred:
- Experience bringing to market consumer/provider-facing healthcare offerings
- Established ability to work collaboratively with employees at all levels of an organization
- Polished and persuasive written and verbal communicator skills
- Venture-funded start-up experience
Who we are
We are a venture builder that specializes in creating and launching new businesses. We work with entrepreneurs and startups to turn their ideas into successful companies, providing them with the resources, expertise, and support they need to succeed.
From ideation through to scale, Reverse Ventures brings together cross-functional teams to design, develop and scale propositions into business ventures. Our goal is to create innovative, scalable businesses that have the potential to transform industries in their target geographies.
We invest in people as much as we invest in businesses, providing the right resources and tailored scaling approach that goes beyond just capital.
Our mission is to support those underdogs that may not initially project massive growth but possess robust potential and product-market fit. They might not belong to the trendiest sectors or promise rapid returns, but we believe in their resilience, their ability to withstand market fluctuations, and their promise for steady progress.
We provide capital, experience and resources, nurturing these promising firms towards their full potential. Our approach is about sustainability, a shift from trend-chasing practices towards long-term, steady growth, fostering an investment ecosystem that prizes diversity and resilience.
What you can expect from us
- Opportunity to become co-owner
- Work alongside multiple Swiss start-ups
- Form an integral part of a multi-disciplinary mission-led digital business building team
- Work with the latest technologies and tools in the industry
- Manage your day to fit personal and professional obligations
- Hybrid working environment
- Colleagues with good manners, willingness to help and sense of humor
- Regular feedback, education, training, courses and certifications
- “Guilt and drama free" environment
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If you have any questions or need additional information, please don't hesitate to contact us by hello@revc.ch.
