Position: CTO
Company: Zelh
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

We are looking for a **Chief Technology Officer (CTO)** to provide sound technical leadership in all aspects of our business. You will communicate with employees, stakeholders and customers to ensure our company’s technologies are well understood and used appropriately.   In this role you will be responsible for leading the development and technology strategy of a transformational platform to enable the future of dynamic pricing and digitalization for the logistics industry working with many well-known thought-leading customers and partners in the space.  

**About client:**
The company is an up-and-coming provider of SaaS, machine-learning based predictive freight pricing solutions for the Logistics Service Provider market that is poised to disrupt and transform the world of freight procurement.   

The company offers a dynamic pricing infrastructure for the logistics industry that optimizes and enriches historical and real-time market data to predict buy rates and sell prices that are 2 – 3X more accurate than traditional pricing methods, empowering LSPs to increase profit per transaction and volume per rep.

Our solution combines the power of aggregated market data and a company's own data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver dynamic freight market pricing specific to a company's individual buying and selling behavior– all delivered in a highly intuitive decision support framework to help users make better business decisions faster.  Our vision is to evolve our offering to be a neutral platform for Revenue & Yield Optimization for the Logistics industry.


**Responsibilities:**
•	Oversee technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
•	Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
•	Help departments use technology profitably
•	Create and Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
•	Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
•	Partner with CEO to define product vision and strategy
•	Aligning and providing feedback on the product roadmap, work closely with product to decide on prioritization, resource allocation, and timelines
•	Oversee all aspects of the development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, strategic planning, design/architecture, execution, deployment, and maintenance
•	Oversee development of quality assurance and data protection processes, ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards
•	Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
•	Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and securely
•	Developing a strategy and framework for allocating resources effectively in line with vision, in a way that motivates and inspires team members
•	Setting goals that help meet the organization’s needs, set a high standard for success, and draw on the strength of team managers
•	Building a technology leadership team that can expertly manage their own teams, develop a strong and focused culture, and be responsive to the organization’s needs
•	Drives innovation and differentiation through a deep understanding of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning

**Requirements:**
•	Proven experience as a CTO or similar senior leadership role preferably in a startup and/or growth stage B2B SaaS technology environment
•	Prior experience managing remote and/or virtual organization
•	An effective leader and team-player who knows how to hire and manage the right talent to scale the Engineering team
•	Knowledge of technological trends to build strategic value
•	Understanding of budgets and business-planning
•	Ability to conduct technological analysis and research
•	Excellent communication skills
•	Leadership and organizational abilities
•	Strategic thinking
•	Problem-solving aptitude
•	BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus
•	Deep understanding ML and Data Science with particular emphasis in time series forecasting and business intelligence
•	Possesses necessary skills to communicate complicated technical goals to non-technical people and make them enthusiastic about the possibilities it can offer
•	Ability to take the mystery out of AI and machine-learning, and our application of it, for an audience of multiple levels of expertise/knowledge
•	English level - upper-intermediate or higher
•	An understanding of Logistics & Supply Chain business problems is a huge bonus

We offer: 
• A supportive team 
• PE Accounting 
• Competitive Salary in USD 
• Office or Remote mode of work 
• 15+ business days of paid time off 
• Team building and corporate events 
• Equipment provided 
• Fragrant coffee from the barista in the Lviv office