CTO & Co-Founder - Building the credit card for our generation
Location: New York, NY
Compensation: Annual salary range $100K-150K, with equity range of 10-20%
About Airo: We are credit card & technology company built by millennials for millennials. The credit card system is underserving Millennials, not giving them equal access, not giving them the rewards they deserve, not giving them the right tools to help them spend responsibly, not giving them an innovative, simple & transparent experience. We are here to change this.
Our Product: We are building a simple & honest no-fee credit card and mobile app, with personalized rewards and innovative tools to empower responsible spending.
Why Us?: We have worked for the largest credit card issuers advising them on strategy and operations. We have seen how they think and how they serve their customers. We believe we can do much better. Come work with a high caliber, deeply experienced, and creative team to build the financial products of the future.
We believe financial products should empower customers to lead better lives, we believe all customer should be given equal access, we believe in strict transparency, and we believe products should be simple and beautifully designed. We are building a team of passionate, highly collaborative, entrepreneurially driven, deeply creative and accomplished individuals.
Website: Airocard.com
Role & Responsibilities
Job brief:
We are seeking a passionate & accomplished technical leader to join as CTO and third Co-Founder at Airo. This role will be responsible for leading the company’s technical execution, developing the strategy for using all tech resources, ensuring technology is implemented efficiently/effectively and building the engineering organization from the ground up.
Strategic thinking and strong business acumen are essential in this role. We expect you to be well-versed in current financial technology trends and familiar with a variety of financial technology concepts. Candidate should have knowledge of the credit card and payment ecosystems.
If you are passionate about consumer financial technology and want to build the financial products of the future, we’d like to meet you.
Experience Requirements:
- Proven experience as a CTO or similar technical leadership role
- Experience building mobile app technology from the ground up, with proven resourcefulness and flexibility
- Experience in leadership role managing a team, organizational capabilities including hiring in a fast growth environment
- In-depth knowledge of technological trends and resources to influence company strategy
- Strong ability to manage budgeting and business-planning
Key Responsibilities:
Build a world-class engineering organization
- Develop short & medium-term hiring plan to meet the company’s goals
- Define the organizational structure, agile methods of working & responsibilities
- Oversee all recruiting activities to hire top talent
- Build a passionate, collaborative, open-minded and creative engineering culture, leading by example
Lead technical execution
- Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
- Setup tech infrastructure from the ground-up
- Select technologies, development tools, language and infrastructure to build the product
- Build and manage the development roadmap
- Develop tracking methodology and KPIs to measure/track milestones, effectiveness, budget and bottlenecks
- Implement technological processes & best practices
- Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
- Ensure technical processes comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations
- Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
Manage engineering organization
- Manage engineering team on a day to day basis
- Inspire and motivate the team to deliver results
- Lead talent development to train and build the necessary skills and capabilities to drive superior business impact - trainings, mentorship, stretch goals, attendance at conferences
- Define team staffing to improve performance and to serve teams needs
- Reorganize and effectively manage change as needed