Chief Technology Officer, Virtex Stadium
+ Stock options
Virtual stadium
Job no longer available
Virtual stadium
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring the intense excitement and joy of a live event to every fan around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in building world-class engineering teams
- Proven experience effectively growing teams from start-up to product delivery
- Exceptional technical leadership skills and comprehensive knowledge of the current and future tech market and development tools and processes
- The ability to contribute to business and strategic goals and then optimally balance technical and business needs to meet those goals
- The ability to communicate efficiently and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience scaling consumer software companies from seed to exit
- Experience shipping high-quality Unreal Engine experiences
- Experience shipping high-quality VR or AR experiences
- Experience scaling successful cloud-based SaaS services
- Experience successfully integrating user-experience research into the software development process
Desirable
- Experience growing safe and diverse online communities
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
What the job involves
- Virtex Stadium is seeking an experienced CTO to lead software development and technical operations
- As the CTO, you will both help define company goals that will shape the future of esports and ensure that the world-class engineering team at Virtex is working as effectively and efficiently as possible to meet those goals
- Build and grow the world-class engineering team at Virtex
- Provide technical leadership and direction, ensuring efficient high-quality execution that meets company goals and delivers delightful user experiences that exceed market expectations
- Collaborate with company leadership and stakeholders on strategy and objectives
- Collaborate with teams at all levels across all disciplines to define technical requirements, milestones, and deliverables
- Proactively identify and resolve technical challenges and bottlenecks, delivering both process and technology improvements and effective workarounds where appropriate
- Evaluate the technical feasibility and scalability of new features and enhancements, providing recommendations to optimize performance, efficiency and usability
- Manage the full development cycle of products and features from concept to launch as efficiently as possible
- Identify and manage technology, security, and compliance risks across the company
Our take
After a decade working in the eSports industry, Virtex’s founder developed a deep understanding how passionate fans of eSports can be and what they look for in a shared community.
Virtex Stadium is a Virtual Reality focused virtual stadium developer offering a social VR experience. People interested can join a lobby and then hang out and interact with others who have also joined. Or they can immediately enter the stadium to watch eSports, along with hundreds of other people who have also joined live. Through partnerships with publishers and organisers, Virtex are hoping to provide a virtual stadium experience for all the leading eSports games.
This is a billion-dollar industry and Virtex is well placed within it, both given its founders professional and personal experiences within eSports community, but also following funding that has been invested into expanding the reach of the platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2022
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $3.2m
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Christoph Ortlepp
(COO)Previously co-founded Splitverse and acted as CEO. Experience as a Consultant for Oliver Wyman and in Corporate Planning for Henkel, and in Innovation Management for Krones AG.
Tim Mcguinness
(CEO)Previously founded Team Gravity VR eSports, MyKii Limited, and Virtex Studios. Experience as Lead Designer for Splitverse.
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