Position: Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
Company: Program-Ace
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Position Summary
Innovation-oriented company Program-Ace looking for Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The company specializes in Training & simulation, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Web3, AI. The CTO is responsible for driving innovations and overseeing all technological aspects of the company. The CTO works with Executive Management to grow the company through the use of internal and external technological resources. Using an active and practical approach, the CTO will direct Marketing, Sales, R&D and Delivery departments to attain the company’s strategic goals established in the company’s strategic plan.

Requirements
- A clear vision of the technological path for the development of a service IT company with a specialization in AR/VR/3D/AI in today’s market conditions;
- Experience in company with similar expertise;
- Previous work on COO, CTO, Director of Innovations, R&D Director or similar position in software development company working with enterprise level clients (Fortune 1000);
- Excellent English language skills;
- Over 30 y.o.

Responsibilities:

Strategy & Innovations
- Drive technological and solutions innovations in the company to achieve company business goals;
- Recognize, evaluate, select and then manage the study of external technologies and third-party tools & solutions. Organize the transfer of obtained knowledge to the Delivery department;
- Negotiate & collaborate with company Strategic Technological Partners, and Clients;
- Build and manage the R&D team of most talented engineers;
- Manage research and development (R&D) activities;
- Collaborate with the Marketing department for identify new markets & opportunities;
- Estimate risks;
- Collaborate with Sales department to use the innovative & technological potential of the company in full. Find technological solutions for challenging R&D projects;
- Monitor technology and social trends that could impact the company;
- Maintain current information about technology standards and compliance regulations and ensure company products & services meet these requirements.

Implementation & Deployment
- Select or define the company’s software development methodology;
- Establish and supervise the software development process, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the selected software development methodology.Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing;
- Select, deploy, and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures;
- Develop standard SLA (Service Level Agreement) for Delivery department.

Skills
- Excellent public speaker and strong communicator with excellent written, presentation and oral communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to explain complex technical issues to nontechnical audience whilst also having the depth of knowledge to communicate effectively with technical experts;
- Mediation and persuasion skills. Must be self-confident in his or her knowledge and experience, with a high degree of openness to others’ opinions and a good sense of diplomacy;
- Strong leadership skills, ability to think creatively and strategically, excellent judgement and ability to work in a fast-changing and evolving environment.

We are offering
- Work with a world-leading company on horizontal markets (Global Top 100 Outsourcing company by IAOP, Top AR/VR company by Clutch) — is a good basis for your further professional and financial growth;
- Participation in reaching the Ambitious goal of becoming the #1 company in selected vertical markets;
- 30+ years of history, good reputation, huge database of clients, well-established CRM system, a lot of content, good presence in social networks, strong domain, and a lot of case studies;
- Work in EU based company;
- Competitive salary package (salary + bonus)
- Open and truly friendly environment and support that facilitates professional freedom and growth;
- Mature and efficient processes;
- Paid 18-day vacation;
- Sick leave compensation;
- Flexible working hours;
- Performance reviews with possible salary raise;
- Nice and modern office in Cyprus;
- Relocation opportunity to EU (Cyprus)

We will be glad to answer all questions and invite you to the first stage of the interview!