Chief Technical Officer

At Mad Collective we are proud of our diversity (over 32 nationalities) and believe it is one of the most important contributors to our success. We’re 180+ people energized about our future and enjoying everything a high-growth company has to offer.

We offer a hybrid-remote work schedule which enables you to find the right combination of work from home and in-office collaborative time with your team.

Join the collective and go mad with us

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to join our team in Barcelona and play a key role in building a top tech organization. As Chief Technology Officer, you will guide our tech development teams and you’ll work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure rapid delivery and platform scalability while influencing product direction through technical insights.

Be a part of the team

Inherit an extremely talented team of +40 engineers, that need strong leadership and direction, in particular around: the vision of the business, priorities, and deliverables; process and discipline; driving collaboration and innovation. Efficiency as an outcome of orchestrating all of this is particularly relevant.
- Product:_ Drive a close strategic relationship with the product and the business with a special focus on communication and collaboration.
- Systems_: scalability, reliability, and uptime are critical. We have a nice mix of languages PHP, Golang, NodeJs, and frameworks like Symfony, and Nuxt, using a range of AWS services monitored with Datadog and ELK. Our systems can handle extremely high traffic that generates huge amounts of valuable data for running our products.
- Technical vision: _The CTO must bring vision and innovative thinking to ensure that our systems remain ahead of the curve - making judgment calls around “buy vs build” is a constant question.
- Culture:_ Foster the creation of great engineering culture, impacting how the team behaves in terms of building products, paying down debt, investing in infrastructure, but also on hiring, and other important aspects of how the team interacts on a daily basis such as daily routines, development philosophy, knowledge management. Keeping that evolving in a professional, performance-driven manner is key.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of 5+ years in a senior technology leadership role (VP or C-level), experienced in managing technology teams in a scale-up/mid-size company.
- 5+ years running and scaling systems ideally in a B2B/B2C environment.
- Proven experience scaling and leading high-performance teams whilst retaining and growing careers within the team.
- Strong business and product understanding
- Proven technical background with a strong understanding of architecture complimented with experience in managing technical debt and driving the appropriate strategy to balance pragmatic choices along the way.
- Proven experience developing data-led products, using AI / ML
- Highly analytical, strong on data, and extracting valuable insights from multiple data sources
- A confident and inspirational leader, combined with a proper level of emotional intelligence
- Experience being part of an executive team and capable of influencing and helping to shape the strategy of the company.
- Strong, structured thinker and communicator at all levels.

**Benefits**
- Private Health and Dental Insurance plan for employees.
- Subsidized gym memberships and fitness classes.
- Monthly internet allowance.
- Working from home setup allowance.
- Company-sponsored Spanish, Catalan, and English classes.
- Sponsored training and development.
- Top-notch Apple equipment.
- Hybrid-Remote policy and flexible working hours
- Flexible Bank Holidays. Design your own working calendar with a lengthy consecutive vacation day policy.
- Day off for your birthday.