CTO possible CO-Founder

  • Full-time

Company Description

travoom.com

travoom.com is the curated marketplace for bucket list travel experiences.

What we do...

travoom.com empowers people to identify a bucket list adventure/experience and without any search requirements, simply presents the traveler with vetted components necessary to bring the trip to life -- tickets, lodging, flights and beyond.

Why it matters...

Searching and successfully planning a trip around an iconic adventure/experience is time-consuming, frustrating, overwhelming and often-times elusive.

Why we are better...

travoom.com’s searchless travel approach means a bucket list experience can be discovered, planned and purchased in a matter of minutes without the endless search-driven lunacy and inefficiency that comes with all travel planning.

Job Description

Job description


Are you a CTO, with startup/Fundraising experience? If so, read on...


We are building a brand that is synonymous with real-time discovery, the first of its kind in travel.


We are building a marketplace that promotes discovery, sharing, purchasing


on a global scale. 85% of tour operators globally are not ecommerce capable, and China is our initial target market!



Top Reasons to Work with Us


  • Undiscovered category with unlimited upside, 500 Billion dollars today and growing
  • Get in on the ground floor
  • Own our technology!


What You Will Be Doing


  • Building a World Class team
  • Social first, understanding and experience at building a viral growth platform
  • Experience at building a business at scale





Qualifications

Major Responsibilities:Fundraising experience


Strategy & Planning

  • Identify opportunities and risks, including


    identification of competitive services, opportunities for
    innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical
    hurdles to the business success.

  • Evaluate and identify
    appropriate technology platforms (including web/platform/device
    application frameworks and the deployment stacks) for delivering the
    company’s services.


  • Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals
    by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting
    timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of a viral growth business.

  • Participate as a member of the exec
    management team in establishing governance processes of direction and
    control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed
    appropriately and the organization’s resources are used responsibly,
    particularly in the areas of software development, office networks and
    computers, and telecommunications.

  • Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.

  • Establish a governance process that meets government, partner, and company expectations for customer information privacy.

  • Direct
    development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security
    plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of
    the company’s data and servers.

  • Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.

  • Communicate the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.

  • Implementation & Deployment

    • Select/maintain a software revision control system and repository.

    • Select and set up web-based
      internal communications systems, such as a wiki, blog, chatroom, project
      management, and bug tracking systems (in the absence of a system
      administrator).

    • Collaborate with potential customers to
      develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications that describe the
      implementation of the company’s services.

    • Collaborate
      with User Experience Designers and potential customers to prepare
      wireframes or mockups of prototypes of the company’s web/platform/device
      applications.

    • Select and manage company staff or outsourced vendors.

    • Select or define the company’s software development methodology.

    • Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen based on user stories and the User Experience design.

    • Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards.

    • Review current best practices for the selected Saas/Paas implementations and establish the initial architecture.

    • Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers

    • Support the marketing process by providing
      implementation of technical requirements for Internet marketing and
      search engine optimization.

    Operational Management

  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry
    trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices
    by attending relevant conferences and reading widely (including reading
    your peers’ blogs!).

  • Define and communicate company
    values and standards for acquiring or developing systems, equipment, or
    software within the company.

  • Share knowledge, mentor, and
    educate the organization’s investors, management, staff, partners,
    customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company’s technological
    vision, opportunities, and challenges.

  • Promote achievement of the company’s business
    goals within a context of community collaboration by developing policies
    for sharing software code, technological innovation, business
    processes, and other intellectual property.

  • Successful in leading cross-functional teams in architectural
    designs, development and deployment across the globe. Extensive
    experience in multi-tier application design and development,
    Service-Oriented-Architecture, mobile and Internet based technologies,
    and methodologies.

    Position Requirements


    • Formal Education & Certification


    • University degree in the field of computer science,
      business administration, or another rigorous discipline. An advanced
      degree in one these fields is a plus.


    Knowledge & Experience

    • Demonstrated ability to envision web-based services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems.


    • [10+] years experience managing streaming application development.

    • Hands-on experience coding in more than one currently popular application framework.

    • Familiar with more than one software development methodology.

    • Ability to discern user requirements and develop specifications.

    • Has contributed to one or more open source projects.


    • Contact


Doug Knittle Founder



Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.


Additional Information

  • Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to bring travel and adventure to more people worldwide. 
  • Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growth pains of an early-stage technology company
  • Exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
  • Strong work ethic and ability to deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced work environment
  • Detail oriented and organized with superior analytical abilities
  • Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Compensation will be a package of Salary, Bonus and Equity depending upon experience and quantifiable contributions to profitability

 

Travoom.com is located in beautiful Santa Monica, we are privately held and rapidly growing!