Chief Technology Officer, OpenCorporates
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The open database of the corporate world
Job no longer available
The open database of the corporate world
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Share options and bonus scheme
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make dependable company data open to all.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have previous technology senior leadership experience, in a company that has scaled from circa $5m to $25m ARR
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor products in the open data and corporate transparency space
- Oversee the technology budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to drive business growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With an estimated £88 billion laundered through the UK each year, companies like OpenCorporates have become an increasingly vital resource for watchdogs the world over. Founded in 2010 by a former magazine publisher, OpenCorporates has built a subscription-based open database of companies operating in the global corporate world.
From 3 million companies on its platform in the 2010s, OpenCorporate has grown to more than 200 million in the 2020s. The rate of its database growth reflects not only the need for more transparency in corporations, but also technological innovations in big data.
Bootstrapped since birth, OpenCorporates has maintained impartiality in its work. Its database of companies not only proves useful in the age of watchdogs and transparency, but in an individual's search for potential clients and employment opportunities. OpenCorporates also provides structured data for journalists and NGOs, having a tangible and positive effect on a global scale.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2021
$0.3m
GRANT
Nov 2015
$0.2m
GRANT
Total funding: $0.5m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Chris Taggart
(Founder & CSO)Previously CEO of OpenCorporates and Managing Director of Beach Magazines & Publishing.
Wojtek Kokoszka
(CEO)Also a Barrister at he Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Previously a Director at Intellection Software for 13 years.
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