Position: Chief Technology Officer
Company: Binary Studio
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

👉 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.