IDG Communications, Inc. is looking for a Chief Technology Officer – International who will have oversight for all International technology and technological resources. The Chief Technology Officer will report to the Global CIO and assist in establishing and driving company technology vision, strategies, and plans for growth. The CTO will work closely with US Tower Leads in ensuring the resources are aligned to the projects and deliverables in support of IDG’s goals and objectives and focus on aligning and improving technological issues in the company. The work location for this position is flexible to be in or outside the U.S.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Global CIO in setting IDG’s technical vision and leading technological development
- Help in building a strategy that moves IDG from a build to a buy organization for technology solutions
- Developing strategic plans and setting timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of technical, web, and mobile services
- Identifying opportunities for web and mobile services
- Collaborating with department heads, marketing, production, and operations as advisor of all technologies involved with company
- Ensuring technology standards and best practices are met
- Monitoring web analytics and making recommendations that align to business goals
- Supervising quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests
- Mentoring team members
- Identifying company web user needs
- Monitoring performance profiling tools and procedures
- Reviewing timeframes and budgets
- Developing and implementing disaster and emergency recovery plans
- Defining company standards for systems, equipment, and software
- Sharing technological visions, opportunities, and risks company-wide
- Studying current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development
- Studying information processing systems to evaluate effectiveness and make recommendations for improvement
- Representing company at conferences and networking events
- Ensuring company’s technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations
Qualifications
- Successful candidate will have a minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in a software development role, information technology role, or related field; five years in management or leadership role
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or related field; Master’s degree in information technology or a technology-related discipline preferred
- In-depth understanding of the industry
- Strict adherence to company philosophy/mission statement/sales goals
- Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
- Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with peers, brand leaders, and other senior management throughout the company
- Able to be a “big picture” thinker
- Able to align multiple strategies and ideas
- Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills; Encouraging to team and staff; able to mentor and lead
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical and time-management skills
- Confident in producing and presenting work
- Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel)
- Experience with technology relative to industry including but not limited to; .Net, C#, SQL Server, MongoDB, Solr, jQuery, Angular, AWS, GCP, IIS, GitHub, Node.JS, Java/C
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