Job Description:

Company Snapshot:

Our client is a successful, fast growing dynamic organization that focuses in the marketing space and more specifically helping their clients connect with consumers through mobile channels. They are an established organization located in the heart of downtown Toronto with easy access by public transit. They reward based on merit and are success driven.

Opportunity Overview:

Our client continues to experience growth and expansion of their business offerings. They require a Technology Director to facilitate this growth and to grow with them.

The ideal candidate is an extremely tech savvy and hands on leader. You will be relied upon not only for your ability to interact with the clients and the executive team but as well be hands on and provide leadership to the young and talented development team.

You will have come up from a development background and still live and breathe different ways to make development more efficient and exciting. You are a problem solver and forward thinker. You know how to inspire and pull the best out of your team.

You have a strong grasp of where the industry is going, and are able to support the vision and development of new solutions that will best meet the needs of their industry leading client list.

You may have worked and learned at a large firm and decided that your entrepreneurial spirit needs a more dynamic environment to realize its full potential. The leaders at our client are successful entrepreneurs from whom you can learn. This role offers (in fact requires) incredible growth potential.

Position Details:

This position works closely with the CEO and actively participates with the Executive Team to ensure that the development work produced by the development team is properly understood and efficiently managed.

Responsibilities are as follows:

        Oversee all software development, implementation and maintenance processes, making strategic decisions regarding the development and integration of systems with the view of creating and maintaining a seamless development operation.

        Promote and cultivate a client-focused, service-oriented culture within the development team.

        Evaluate and prioritize requests for service and the allocation of resources and personnel to achieve the most effective and efficient deployment of resources and time.

        Define, implement and lead best practices within the development process.

        Manage recruitment, development, retention and morale of the development team.

        Be responsible for the quality of output from the development efforts.

        Be responsible for the productivity, efficiency and utilization of development staff.

        Be the senior point of liaison between the development team and the rest of the organization.

        Be a senior point of liaison with external partners and clients, in both a business development as well as technical integration capacity.

        Report informally on a regular basis and formally on a monthly basis the status of development projects.

        Write and deliver performance evaluation and appraisal of development team members.

Experience

        Experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment directing technical development with a background in software engineering/programming and building rich, client focused applications.

        A deep technical expertise in software systems architecture especially on mobile platforms.

Personal

        Entrepreneurial attitude.

        Strong cultural fit.

        Ability to excel under pressure.

        Strong team player

        Strong managerial skills.

        Ability to prioritize effectively in the face of business uncertainty.

        Excellent written and oral communication skills, for technical and non-technical audiences.

        Strong problem-solving and motivational skills.