CTO

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 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

Looking for a cofounder willing to make an investment

• 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.
  
  

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!