M.Gemi, headquartered in Boston, MA along with offices in SoHo, New York and Florence, Italy is redefining the luxury products industry by leveraging the uniqueness of Italian manufacturing combined with a technology and data driven predictive supply chain engine. By challenging the long standing design and manufacturing process, we are delivering new products to market in record time and selling direct to the consumer through a state of the art digital platform as well as physical showrooms. As the only brand in the world that delivers new collections of luxury shoes every week, we have created a loyal and rapidly growing customer base, since our launch in March 2015.
Backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including General Catalyst, Forerunner, Accel, and Burda Principal Investments, M.Gemi is a fast growing direct to consumer start-up with a passion for using technology to reinvent and accelerate the business.
We leverage best-of-breed internal and external technologies, coupled with data science and analytics - of which the result is a disruptive business model that creates an exceptional omni-channel customer experience and a revolutionary data-driven, supply chain operation.
Our team of data scientists, engineers, product managers, analysts, supply chain experts, multi-generational Italian shoemakers, and passionate creatives are reinventing online consumer shopping experiences, supply chain, experiential retail and accessible luxury.
The Role
The CTO is a hands-on technology leader with experience in third party system integrations, back-end operation architecture, data pipelines and consumer-facing experiences who will lead the strategy, evolution and ongoing development of the next iteration of the M.Gemi platform. As a partner to our product team, you will help to drive the implementation of the product roadmap while also defining a technical roadmap to meet the needs of a rapidly growing, omni-channel consumer business. You are extremely passionate about building high-performing engineering
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the development methodology & set standards to produce high quality code & features
- Architect and plan for the continued evolution of technology to drive our physical and digital convergence strategy, creating exceptional omni-channel experiences and operations
- Audit the performance of the platform and define the next iteration of the technology strategy and roadmap
- Establish close relationships with existing third-party technology partners to drive new features supporting M.Gemi’s growth objectives
- Define and assess new technology partners and make/buy ROI to help drive innovation and lower costs
- Architect and plan for the future of data integration between systems to drive our focus on analytics and data science
- Partner with our data science, analytics, finance and operations teams to define and power new technical (make/buy) strategies that address core business needs
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to use technology to help solve the challenges related to a high-paced data driven business model
- Ensure production, delivery, and all technical system and reporting functions are operating at levels which meet business and customer requirements
- Build and retain an exceptional engineering organization
Requirements
- BS+ (or equivalent) in Computer Science
- 10+ years experience across software development + platform architecture
- Willing to wear many hats from architecture planning to hands-on coding to engineering management
- Experience architecting a comprehensive data-intensive platform consisting of internal and third party components
- Results orientated, curious, attention to detail, and a strong collaborator
- Strong communication skills; self-aware; we vs. me focused`
- Experience leading agile environments and teams
- Startup and consumer experience strongly preferred