CTO
- Full-time
Company Description
OleOleSport.com
Ole Ole is the curated marketplace for sports travel experiences.
What we do...
oleolesport empowers people to identify sports 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...
Ole Ole’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
Are you a CTO, with startup experience, do you have network, blockchain , gambling, games, ecommerce experience, do you have knowledge of building a network platform (Think messaging and social network powered by live scores for football/soccer). We will maintain oleolesport while building a social network and messaging platform for football. We have several exclusive fan travel sponsorship deals worth millions in revenue. These deals include marketing rights that will drive traffic to the new social network as well as sell our ticket packages.
We are building a brand that is synonymous with football, with 24,000 clubs 208 national teams (Where Fans Kickoff!),
We are building a social network and a marketplace for football the marketplace (similar to WeChat) will offer brands the opportunity to sell tickets, hospitality, merchandise, gaming, gambling, and many other services. These mini-apps will sit in the cloud and will be embedded within our app.
We are building the world's first social network for sports, all content is fan-driven with the exception of scores, fixture lists, tables, squads, and history. We are applying world-class machine learning, artificial intelligence, visual search, data storage, and client technologies to one of the largest sports with data sets of ideas in one place. We will use AI to disrupt Wikipedia’s football history category.
Top Reasons to Work with Us
- Build the biggest sports platform in the world in 100 languages
- Build a world class global technology team
- Build something completely new that will change sports forever
What You Will Be Doing
Helping to develop a world-class culture from day one
- Building multiple small teams of great people, web, mobile, AI teams driven by user growth
- Social first, scaling user growth at all cost, building a viral growth mobile platform by integrating oleolesport with Facebook, Twitter, Tikand Instagram
- Experience at building a business at scale
Qualifications
Startup Experience a must
Major Responsibilities: Help build a great team, a small team of really smart people, upgrade the current technology stack, develop our social platform, the AI team will drive personalization, and build a world class history section for football, we think there is a lot of talented students, we need help finding these interns that can also code and did we mention user growth and scaling as quickly as possible, understanding networks and viral growth a must, most CTO's have no idea what network effects are, do you?
Strategy & Planning
Identify opportunities and risks, including
identification of competitive services, opportunities for
innovation, and assessment of network 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.Execute 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.
Implementation & Deployment
Operational Management
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
Knowledge & Experience
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.
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.
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.- 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.
Demonstrated ability to envision web-based services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems.
Looking for a cofounder willing to make an investment
- Formal Education & Certification
Additional Information
Of course it’s hard and others won’t want to do the hard stuff.
We are building a WeChat like platform, social network, messaging and video calls, TikTok like video, mini programs that sit in the cloud will allow all brands to build on our platform, focused on cross-boarder purchasing. Cryptocurrency marketplace and installment payments will be the driving sales on this platform.
- Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices, lets build something better!
- 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 growing pains of an early-stage technology company
- An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
OleOleSport is located in beautiful Santa Monica, however, work from home while we fund raise a possibility, held and rapidly growing!