Chief Technology Officer

**Chief Technology Officer (M/F/d)**

**Location**:Munich

**Department**:Responsible for the Tech & Infrastructure

**Reports to**:CEO

**Headcount**: Company wide: 10 FTE, Tech Department: 2 Sr. Engineers

**Your Mission**:
Our customer is a B2B SaaS company that protects any product on the internet (Remove.tech).

Remove.tech grew from 0 to 800k in ARR within 1,5 years and is a bootstrapped remote company founded in Vienna, Austria.

The founders are looking for a founding engineer / CTO who is proactively driving the Technology side of the company in order to scale to 10 Mio ARR within the next 5 years, bootstrapped.

**Your first half-year might look like this**:
**After 1 month you’ll**
- Finished the company onboarding
- Have met your entire team and understood the product and how our customers are using it
- Spent time shadowing your team, the founders and talked to customers directly
- understand the company strategy, mission, value proposition and 2025 targets

**After 3 months you’ll**
- Have identified low-hanging fruits based on your discovery and previous experience and implement short-term wins
- Have built a foundation of trust with your peers and team to be able to take ownership of decisions
- Having a rough plan on the tech strategy to deliver 10x growth in 5 years based on the time you spend with customers, your team and the founders
- Spent time with customers, bi-weekly
- Understood the tech infrastructure and code
- Ship code weekly

**After 6 months you’ll**
- Have a clear tech strategy in mind to achieve 10x growth in 5 years
- Proactively shape the company's direction, goals and objectives on the tech side
- Have re-structured the code base and took full ownership of all tech-contributing activities
- Spend time with customers, bi-weekly

**Your Responsibilities**
- Develop and implement technology strategies to grow from EUR 1 to 10M in ARR within 5 years.
- Lead and coordinate all technical functions striving for customer centricity and profitable growth and build a team of strong independent senior engineers or juniors with high potential.
- Understand the requirements of existing customers to ensure their needs are being met and meet with customers bi-weekly
- Build a standarized and high quality code base to ensure a high valuation of the company through a scalabale tech stack, code base and team. We could be acquired and you would benefit from the share value.

**Your profile**
- Proven experience in building outstanding products, ideally in a B2B SaaS start-up.
- 6+ years of relevant work experience; min. 5 years in coding
- Hands-on attitude with a desire to take ownership of tasks and responsibilities;
- Proven experience in customer centric and agile environments
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities
- Desire to work in fast-paced scale-up and passion to work with digital products and services
- Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate insights into actionable technical strategies and operational plans.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve technical goals.
- Experience in developing and implementing devops processes.

**What you’ll get**:

- Being part of our supportive, curious, hands-on and independent culture.
- Joining a independent bootstrapped start-up in the B2B SaaS field.
- An entrepreneurial company culture with flat hierarchies
- Remote, flexible in working from other countries or locations.
- State of the art hardware and software.

**About Us**
pplwise supports leading, fast-growing companies across Europe in delivering on their growth plans. Our services include Recruiting as a Service & Executive Search specializing in the support of technology companies during their growth phases.

We work with publicly traded companies like Uber or JustEatTakeaway, Unicorns like Clark, TIER or Taxfix and countless start-ups and scale-ups funded by top venture capital funds like Sequoia Capital, HV Capital or Cherry Ventures.

pplwise was founded in 2021 and already operated in +20 countries across Europe with a team of +20 talented Talent Partners. Ambitious technology companies manage growth phases with pplwise.

Compensation Range: €80K - €120K