Chief Technology Officer

Your responsibilities The purpose of this role is to drive the delivery of all aspects of Spottitt’s technology roadmap and to implement the additional tools and systems required to track the delivery progress of a growing organisation with deliverables across multiple interlinked technology strands. Spottitt’s technology roadmap between now and a Series A funding round foreseen for 2026 will see you manage a growing team with experts in software development and testing for geospatial services, geographic information systems, earth observation and machine learning. Your team will be working on the delivery and development of our unique Spottitt Metrics Factory geospatial analytics and metrics delivery interface, increasing automation from client acquisition to service delivery, enabling ease of Spottitt Metrics Factory output integration with our clients wide range of existing business systems, plus growth of the geospatial data sources and associated analytics supported by Spottitt Metrics factory. You will report to Spottitt CEO Lucy Kennedy who is based in Oxford, UK. Main tasks and responsibilities: Achievement of the technical aspects of Spottitt’s company OKRs for 2024 and beyond. Grow your technical team in both numbers, (from 8 to 16 by the end of 2024) diversity and and skills. Participate in management meetings, preparation and presentation of materials for quarterly board meetings. You will live and breathe Spottitt’s passion for automation and drive to constantly improve the quality of our analytics and completeness of our monitoring service range for a global client base. Identify and deliver the potential of new types of geospatial data and technologies, that can best meet the customer needs identified by Spottitt’s Product Manager and Business Development Teams You and your team will ensure that Spottitt is a recognized leader within the field of ‘Geospatial Data Analytics’, bringing business users easy, ‘plug and play’ access to flexible easy to integrate geospatial analytics and metrics via Spottitt MF. Work closely with the rest of the team to ensure that Spottitt always does its best to meet our customers' needs The more of these you have, the better, but we understand that nobody is the finished article: You have experience as a CTO within a lean start-up environment You have a strong knowledge of B2B SaaS product management You have strong technical skills, able to achieve buy-in from a growing, highly talented development team located in both UK and PL and lead the vision / architecture of the Spottitt MF platform You relish the opportunity to work with autonomy and lead the technical direction You have excellent communication skills, comfortable working at board level and presenting to investors and potential clients Experience with agile software development methodologies and tools, we use Jira University degree in Machine Learning, Software Development, Earth Observation, GIS or similar relevant disciplines Exceptional written communication skills in English You won't be expected to code hands-on but will be able to conduct code reviews and review architectural designs Our Offer We offer you a challenging, full-time or part-time role in the management team of a company at a crucial point of growth and expansion. Applicants able to work 32 hours a week, or more will be seriously considered. We offer competitive remuneration linked to experience and an Employee Share Option Plan so you can also share the rewards! Additionally, you will receive other benefits, which include a pension plan, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and support for the achievement of agreed professional development goals. Beyond any shares earned as part of the Spottitt Employee Share Option, the ideal candidate is looking to have ‘skin in the game’ before or as part of a Series A funding round foreseen for mid 2024. Furthermore, we offer you an interesting group of professional and collaborative colleagues based in the US, UK and Poland with extensive and broad knowledge. Travel between the technical teams based out of the UK and PL will be required. Spottitt employees all have the right to flexible home/office working. Application Interested and ready for this adventure? Please respond with a recent CV. Applicants must submit a cover letter or share the link of a short ‘pitch video’ in which you introduce yourself, explain your interest in the role and why you are our perfect candidate (2 minutes max.). We are very curious about you, your achievements within the world of business development, and what you still look to achieve as part of the Spottitt team. Interviews will be completed by mid-May 2024. The desired start date is July 2024 BUT this is dependent on closing of the current seed fundraising round . Candidates from any location are invited to respond (please do take a look at the note below). If you’d like to contact us prior to applying, contact us personally (+44 7725944643) or by email ( lucy.kennedy@spottitt.com ) Note: Applicants must have the right/required visa to live and work in the UK or PL. While we welcome applicants from any location, we want to be upfront and state that while some relocation support can be discussed, no relocation package is available.