Vice President of Technology, sofatutor
Online tutor platform
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Online tutor platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To support young people throughout the world with the best learning content – on a unique platform.
Role
Who you are
- Several years of leadership experience in comparable tech structures or experience in guiding executives
- Proven experience in scaling technical organizations focusing on user-oriented web products
- Technical understanding - ideally with a background as a developer
- Experience with modern tech stacks (ideally Ruby, Rails, React, AWS)
- High interest in AI tools and their integration into product development (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, etc.)
- Strong team focus, clear communication skills, and a pragmatic leadership style
- Fluent in German (at least C1 level), English as the everyday language in the tech team
What the job involves
- As VP of Technology (gn) at sofatutor, you will take on the leadership and further development of our Technology Team
- You are responsible for the strategic direction of the department, which you shape together with your team and the management, and you have overall responsibility for all technology matters at sofatutor
- As part of the leadership team of our Learning Products Teams (Product, Content, Tech), you significantly shape our products and their further development
- Your focus is on the development of your leadership team, technical architecture, and process responsibility - in close collaboration with the Engineering Managers, Technical Architects, and Agile Coaches
- Overall responsibility for all technology matters at sofatutor
- Leadership and further development of a tech department with ~40 employees (including Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, Technical PMs)
- Development and implementation of the tech strategy in close collaboration with management and the leadership team
- Shared responsibility for the Learning Products Teams (Tech, Product, Content)
- Establishment of a stable, scalable, and AI-supported delivery process
- Hands-on sparring for your leadership team and active development of the Engineering Managers
- 36 - 40h/week
Our take
All students flourish when they can learn at their own pace, but this can be difficult to achieve in a traditional classroom. This is what sofatutor is setting out to address with its online tuition platform.
The company offers students at school and university one-on-one online learning support in 15 subjects, ranging from Mathematics to Latin. The main draw for students is the platform's flexibility and its unique 12 minute lesson format. Compared to traditional private tuition, sofatutor is faster, more convenient and cheaper.
In the fiercely competitive online tuition space, sofatutor finds an edge over rivals such as Tutorfair and MyTutor with its innovative learning materials, interface and class formats. Its strong product has certainly cemented sofatutor in the space, as it looks to further grow its team and operations into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2018
$3.5m
LATE VC
Aug 2014
$4.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $7.6m
Company benefits
- Corporate benefits: Shopping platform with attractive offers from all areas of lie
- Future bens: Discounts for sustainable and future-oriented brands
- Mindsurance: Tools to strengthen mental health
- BVG: Berlin public transport or "Deutschlandticket" at a discounted price
- Swapfiets: Bicycle subscription for many German cities
- Fitness: Choose between FitX, Fitness First, or Urban Sports Club
Company HQ
Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Stephen Bayer
(Founder & MD)Is a founding member and chair of Edtech Founders Club. Is also an Initiator at Art Market 101 and iddb.school, a digital education initiative.
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