Chief Technology Officer
Lisbon, Portugal · Remote
Senior · Full time
Posted 2 years ago

What we're looking for


We're looking for an experienced Tech Lead who loves to balance strategy and action to produce great results. You’re optimistic about the future of FitTech and excited to build a revolutionary fight sport product, an entertrainment ecosystem that gamify everyone’s killer instinct to fight for fun.

BHOUT is a technology/gaming company with the heart of a fitness leader that is developing the first boxing bag with a brain, merging exercise, gaming, AI and entertainment in a web3 environment.

 

Your contribution


What you'll do:

  • Lead and grow our tech team;
  • Work with the core team to set clear priorities and goals for IT management and production, balancing the long-term and immediate needs;
  • Develop and manage annual and quarterly budgets;
  • Oversee data security, management, and governance;
  • Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships, IT resource allocation, goal/KPI setting, and performance metrics;
  • Create strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services;
  • Contribute to the overall Tech strategy, planning and execution;
  • Work closely with product, design, and marketing teams in order to push BHOUT forward;
  • Work within a distributed team;
  • Design our tech stack;
  • Designing and developing software solutions in close collaboration with our hardware engineers and content team to make sure the final product operates seamlessly with all its components.
  • You’ll be essentially the “Face of Tech” to our community. Ideally, you should be comfortable with public speaking, interaction with investors, and an open-source advocate.

 

Your qualifications


You will make a fantastic candidate if:

  • You’re a tech leader, talent coach and mentor. Skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams;
  • You know how to scale a product;
  • You’re an excellent coder. We’re a small team, so everyone is hands-on and you’re someone who leads by example;
  • You’ve got data, DevOps, audit / security know-how;
  • You get stuff done. You’ll have (often ambiguous) responsibilities ranging from marketing to community, to tech. You should be taking it upon yourself to always be learning and find new things to work on;
  • You’re entrepreneurial. This role is autonomous - you’re really excited about proposing and testing ideas based on issues and opportunities you see.
  • You’re a communicator. You know how to express your self and your strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude.
  • You understand Web3. You know how crypto communities operate and communicate, and you have a good understanding of cryptocurrencies, blockchain, DeFi, Social Tokens and NFTs;

 

Benefits


  • Fully remote and flexible work hours;
  • A minimum of 22 vacation days per year;
  • Core team members can enjoy the local holidays of the region they're based in.
  • We don't monitor time, only productivity. But we assume that an equivalent full-time is made of at least 40h/week.

 

How we work


  • We're a small team of highly competent and motivated gaming/fitness dreamers (<10);
  • We're a fully-remote and async-first organization, in order to respect personal & work time;
  • Official language: English (US).
BHOUT
BHOUT is a gaming company with the heart of a fitness leader that created the first Boxing Bag with a brain.
Size:  1-10 employees