Chief Technology Officer

👉 Mission & Purpose

Binary Studio's Delivery Department is committed to supporting the company’s
technical growth, taking an active part in developing business strategy from
a people management perspective.

You will have the opportunity and freedom to create and implement a strategy
for a 300 people international company for growing world-class engineers and
building expertise of creating in-house products using your expertise and
creativity within an environment where all of your initiatives will be heard
and taken into account very seriously.

👉 BHAG Company Goals

• 300 billable engineers within the next 18 months
• Our state of the art, nation-wide education project “Binary Studio
  Academy” which is the #1 education project in CEE region
• Portfolio of own software products

👉 As part of the interview, we'll check on your fit with our values

• Student Always - we share our knowledge & educate the team (e.g. our
  Binary Studio Academy) and are constant learners ourselves;
• Leadership & Expertise - we strive for top-notch results in everything
  we do and are not afraid to think outside the box of our roles;
• Ownership & Initiative - we evaluate Binarians’ performance by the
  number of things they take ownership over and deliver;
• No Asshole - we don’t work with arrogant people.

👉 Expected Knowledge

• 10+ years of relevant IT experience, 5+ years of experience in hiring,
  developing, and managing high-performance development teams;
• Hands-on leadership experience in software architecture, design, and
  technical advisory;
• Experience in working both in outsourcing and product companies (200+
  people);
• Regular speaker in public conferences / courses (optional);
• Fluent English.

👉 The Six Pillars of CTO Responsibilities

Main Focus

• Company: implement best practices in the Delivery department and
  assist other members of the management team with their technical needs.
• Commercial Projects: ensure smooth operations of development teams
  and take ownership in technical escalations.
• People: ensure a meritocracy of ideas and growth of top talent
  (interviews, hiring, onboarding, mentoring, evaluation, promotions, etc.).

High Impact

• Sales: staff new projects and ensure their success; lead
  operational part of Binary services map transformation.
• Binary Studio Academy: become an Academy evangelist and ambassador
  internally (for developers, PMs and other managers) and externally (in
  public talks and materials).
• Internal Products: assist in launching company’s own product
  portfolio by leveraging Academy resources.

1. Company:

• Redesign cross-functional processes for scalability and eliminate bus
  factors for the key positions (in the company and on commercial projects).
• Redesign Delivery org structure: refine roles and their responsibilities,
  engage and mentor involved Binarians.
• Research market trends and demands and keep the management team current on
  new developments and opportunities.
• Assist in adopting security standards.

2. Commercial Projects:

• Help coordinate available human resources and fulfill PMO and Sales
  departments’ requests.
• Provide on-demand advisory. Recruit new and mentor current advisors
  (Practice Leads).
• Mentor and monitor the PM team (until the company decides to hire a Head
  of PMO).
• Become a single point of projects’ escalations and coordinate their
  resolution (until the company decides to hire a Head of PMO).

3. People:

• Lead and coach the Delivery team (130+ engineers).
• Design, implement and help maintain human resources processes with the HRD
  and People Operations department (and adjust to the demand of current
  customers, prospects and market trends).
• Advise the management team and tech leads on escalations and problems.
• Design tech skills' evaluation frameworks, adopt PDP culture and maintain
  newly created processes.
• Recruit, grow and promote top performers.
• Engage and develop internal tech community - design and implement related
  activities.
• Design training programs and systemize knowledge sharing processes.
• Mentor Recruiting team (both recruiters and interviewers) on headhunting,
  suggest recruitment process improvements and coordinate their
  implementation.

4. Sales:

• Coordinate the Delivery part in the pre-sale process.
• Ensure a smooth start of new projects (train teams to start projects,
  formalize and standardize project start processes, staff new projects).
• Help transform the company's business model, expand our technology stack
  and services we provide.

5. Internal Products:

• Work with the CEO and Academy team to design and implement the Binary
  Ventures initiative.
• Develop a “product mindset” among the engineering team to better fit our
  clients and our own future goals.

6. Binary Studio Academy:

• Support and provide advisory service for the Binary Studio Academy team
  (Head of BSA and Head of BSA (Delivery) - on strategy, other roles - on
  demand).
• Coordinate a post-academy hiring plan according to the market demand.

👉 Reasons to join Binary Studio

• No bureaucracy: autonomy in decision-making after the probation period is
  over.
• Opportunity to hone your skills on real problems.
• Possibility to create processes and products from scratch.
• Awesome young, engaged and motivated team.