Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

About OpenCorporates

OpenCorporates is a certified B Corp, revolutionizing access to company data. It has built the world's largest open database of companies, and is 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. Legal entities are at the heart of the modern world – and as we move into a world of digitalized commerce and AI-generated uncertainty, OpenCorporates will be there to provide the trusted foundational data the world needs.

Why join us?

We’re at an exciting stage of our journey, recently appointing Wojtek Kokoszka as our new Chief Executive Officer. Wojtek is a seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of Zappi, the leading SaaS Consumer Insights platform. Wojtek played a pivotal role in scaling Zappi to $100 million in revenue. Wojtek joins OpenCorporates with the clear mission to scale the world's authoritative source of legal-entity data, driving performance, fostering innovation, and executing strategic vision to lead OpenCorporates into its next phase of fast growth.

About the CTO role

This is a unique opportunity to join a scaling company and make a significant impact on our success. As Chief Technology Officer you will shape the technology strategy and lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge data solutions, ensuring that our products meet the evolving needs of our customers. 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 technology senior leadership experience, in a company that has scaled from circa $5m to $25m ARR.

What you will be responsible for:

• Technology strategy and leadership: Develop and execute a technology strategy that aligns with OpenCorporates business goals. Lead the technology roadmap, ensuring timely delivery of key product features and enhancements that align with customer needs and market demands. Be a key technology advisor to the CEO and a key member of the executive leadership team, providing technology expertise to inform business decisions.
• Technology management: Lead the technology team in building and maintaining robust data platforms and infrastructure and delivering our data services, ensuring their high performance, security, and scalability. Drive efforts around data governance, security, and compliance, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
• Team management: Lead and grow multidisciplinary teams, fostering a collaborative, high performing team culture. Cultivate an inclusive, diverse, and positive environment that emphasises our culture: learn, innovate, move quickly, get things done, be accountable.
• Market analysis: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor products in the open data and corporate transparency space.
• Budget management: Oversee the technology budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to drive business growth.

You will need to demonstrate:

• Proven track record as a CTO or senior technology leader within a product-led company that has achieved ARR growth from $5m to $25m.
• Deep understanding of data technologies and big-data architectures.
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience developing and maintaining a variety of self-service delivery mechanisms including web applications, API and data exchanges.
• Experience working with, and refactoring/rewriting, a legacy codebase.
• Familiarity with multiple programming languages (Ruby is our primary language at the moment, but we have a diverse tech stack, including Python).
• Expertise in agile development methodologies.
• Familiarity with data science methodologies and their application to large-scale datasets.

Benefits:

• We’re flexible – We support a culture of flexibility which allows our employees to achieve a strong work-life balance.
• Offices – We are remote first but not remote only. We have a strong in person collaboration culture and are looking for people who can work in a remote and hybrid setting.
• Holiday – 28 days of annual leave per year, plus bank holidays & an extra day for every year of service.
• Work abroad – You have the flexibility to work outside of the UK for up to 4 weeks in a rolling 12-month period.
• Regular company socials.
• For those special moments in your life, such as a big birthday or your wedding, we offer discretionary time off.
• Healthy living – Private healthcare with Aviva, life assurance, plus annual budget for your wellbeing.
• Personal development – We offer personal development budgets and learning days.
• Competitive package - alongside your base salary we offer share options and a bonus scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• £500 home office set-up budget.

Diversity Matters

Don’t meet every single requirement? At OpenCorporates we’re assembling a diverse innovative team that defies our industry's norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification. We welcome applicants with a curious growth mindset.