Chief Technical Officer - VC Firm

Responsbilities:

Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment

To implement processes that measurably improve productivity and quality:

To define and execute against product / technical roadmap with Head of Product:

To mentor members of engineering team to ensure professional development:

To launch the startups engineering brand: Reduce defect rate and improve velocity.

To take action using data from retrospectives and other metaprocesses to further improve quality and velocity

To Estimate and achieve deliverable dates for key features, technical goals and tech debt payback.

Identify levers to influence how to allocate resources for tech debt vs feature dev.

Work with team members to define growth goals and ensure that they are achieved. Develop and grow a highly skilled team of engineers

Maintain a positive team morale and cohesion.

Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining best of-class global engineering teams.

Build the startups public facing engineering brand.

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

DESIRED PROFILE

Bachelors, MS, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering from top tier engineering college.

Sound Team Handling Experience ( 50 + people team)

Bay area experience will be a plus.

Candidate should be from leading product based startups either a successful startup or a very strong grounding with an inclination do a startup

High energy, accomplished leader with the ability to analyze complex situations to achieve results through solving problems while maintaining customer loyalty.