Chief Technology Officer
Chicago, IL Executive
Description

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company. ... Using an active and practical approach, the CTO will direct all employees in IT and IO departments to attain the company's strategic goals established in the company's strategic plan

Requirements

Primary responsibilities:

  • Establish governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved.
  • Direct and development a security plan.
  • Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company’s data and servers.
  • Identify and implement technology trends and platforms.
  • Communicate the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.
  • Evaluate and recommend technologies.
  • Select and register company's domain names.
  • Establish email service.
  • Implement web-based internal communications system.
  • Oversee graphic designer's efforts to create a company corporate identity and website.
  • Manage vendor relationships.
  • Conduct code reviews and specification conformance testing.
  • Establish quality assurance process.
  • Establish an application deployment process.
  • Monitor web analytics regime to ascertain site traffic.
  • Implement technical requirements for Internet marketing and search engine optimization.
  • Integrate customer service and support with the software engineering process to support resolution of customer issues and improve application usability.