Urb-It

CTO

Urb-it is a Swedish tech start-up with offices in Stockholm, London and Paris. Our goal is to innovate the omnichannel shopping and service experience through focusing on changing customer expectations around convenience. We encourage a culture of risk-taking and ownership for all our employees, and promote working as a team to ensure we take ideas from inception to reality in a fast and effective way. Urb-it is an exciting place to work, where passionate, diverse, flexible and talented people are key to our success.

The CTO will help align the organisation around delivering high quality technology products at pace that meet changing customer needs. The ideal candidate will be both a visionary as well as an experienced manager, and will have deep engineering knowledge and a solid understanding of the full technology stack. This role will require a practical approach to development, requiring the candidate to stay up to date with the landscape of current and new tools. The CTO should be intellectually curious about business strategy and technology, and be able to speak passionately about Urb-it to both internal and external stakeholders.

MAIN TASKS:

  • Responsible for the technical vision that makes business sense and making sure that the stakeholders are aligned around it.
  • Identify, develop and manage contractual relationships with strategic partners and providers
  • Provide clear requirements and business rules to guide the development of new features and define acceptance criteria of those features.
  • Coordinates with product owners and project managers to ensure enhancements are implemented per specifications, within budget and on schedule.
  • Deliver meaningful change to the customer experience that impacts the bottom line by spending lot of time working closely with the UX/Interaction.
  • Assess technologies and design technical architectures to increase business agility and manage complexity.

YOUR PROFILE:

  • Experience from a start-up within the IT or fin-tech industry.
  • Relevant academic degree.
  • High degree of independence, personal drive, “can-do” attitude and capability to take own initiatives.
  • High social competence – a team player with great communication skills. 
  • Strategic.
  • Highly self-driven and a proactive doer with a entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Well-networked.