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About OpenCorporates
OpenCorporates is a certified B Corp that revolutionizes access to company data by building the world's largest open database of companies. Trusted by regulators, financial institutions, investigative journalists, and businesses for its unparalleled breadth of data, covering over 200 million companies across 140+ jurisdictions, including the entirety of the USA.
Critical legal entities form the backbone of modern commerce – and as we navigate an increasingly digitalized world with AI-generated uncertainty, OpenCorporates will be there to provide trusted foundational data.
Key Role Highlights
We're at an exciting stage in our journey, having recently appointed Wojtek Kokoszka as our new Chief Executive Officer. Wojtek is a seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of Zappi, the leading SaaS Consumer Insights platform, which scaled to $100 million in revenue under his leadership.
Wojtek brings a clear mission to scale the world's authoritative source of legal-entity data, drive performance, foster innovation, and execute strategic vision to propel OpenCorporates into its next phase of rapid growth.
About the CTO Position
This is a unique opportunity to join a scaling organization and make a significant impact on our success. As Chief Technology Officer, you'll shape the technology strategy, lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge data solutions, ensuring our products meet evolving customer needs.
You will champion cross-functional collaboration, bringing together engineers, data analysts and scientists, sales and business stakeholders into cohesive, high-performing teams capable of supporting our growth.
The ideal candidate will have previous senior leadership experience in technology, particularly in companies that have scaled from approximately $5m to $25m ARR.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Technology Strategy and Leadership:
1. Develop and execute a technology strategy aligned with OpenCorporates business goals.
2. Lead the technology roadmap, ensuring timely delivery of key product features and enhancements that align with customer needs and market demands.
3. Provide technology expertise to inform business decisions as a key advisor to the CEO and a key member of the executive leadership team.
2. Technology Management:
1. Lead the technology team in building and maintaining robust data platforms and infrastructure, delivering high-performance, secure, and scalable data services.
2. Drive efforts around data governance, security, and compliance, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
3. Team Management:
1. Lead and grow multidisciplinary teams, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
2. Cultivate an inclusive, diverse, and positive environment emphasizing our culture: learn, innovate, move quickly, get things done, be accountable.
4. Market Analysis:
1. Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor products in the open data and corporate transparency space.
We Seek Candidates Who Can Demonstrate:
1. A proven track record as a CTO or senior technology leader within a product-led company achieving ARR growth from $5m to $25m.
2. Deep understanding of data technologies and big-data architectures.
3. Knowledge of AWS or other cloud infrastructure services.
4. Experience developing and maintaining self-service delivery mechanisms, including web applications, API, and data exchanges.
5. Experience working with and refactoring/rewriting legacy codebases.
6. Familiarity with multiple programming languages (Ruby is our primary language, but we have a diverse tech stack, including Python).
7. Expertise in agile development methodologies.
8. Familiarity with data science methodologies and their application to large-scale datasets.
Benefits:
1. We support flexibility to achieve a strong work-life balance.
2. Offices - We are remote first but not remote only. We have a strong in-person collaboration culture.
3. Holiday - 28 days of annual leave per year, plus bank holidays & an extra day for every year of service.
4. Work abroad - You have the flexibility to work outside of the UK for up to 4 weeks in a rolling 12-month period.
5. Regular company socials.
6. Discretionary time off for special occasions.
7. Private healthcare with Aviva, life assurance, plus annual budget for your wellbeing.
8. Personal development budgets and learning days.
9. Competitive package, including share options and a bonus scheme.
10. Cycle to work scheme.
11. £500 home office set-up budget.
Diversity Matters
We welcome applicants with a curious growth mindset who may not perfectly match every qualification. At OpenCorporates, we're assembling a diverse innovative team defying industry norms.
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