Chief Technology Officer (CTO) (m/f/d)

As the CTO you will be responsible for setting up and manage a new team within the young company. You hire the right people with the mixture of experience and high motivation to perform. As a part of the management team you will be working on the overall business strategy, specifically focused on the development part.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop our technology strategy to build a medical digital app that will be clinically validated and comply with medical device regulations
• Decide on the overall company strategy as a member of the leadership team
• Interface with the R&D team and external academic advisors to help transition state-of-the-art research into our product
• Define and implement the hardware platform, software platform/technology stack and the systems infrastructure for our product
• Lead the development of our application: Prototypes for different stages of experiments, and the final product
• Build and lead your team of top-of-the-field developers, data and IT experts
• Manage our agile product development and relations with external providers
• Implement necessary processes for a digital medical device development setup: ISO certification for quality management, technical documentation, and data protection
• Work closely with our regulatory and clinical investigations team to successfully conduct clinical investigations, and apply for regulatory approval, risk management evaluations etc.
• Manage the whole technology budget
• Communicate the technology strategy to partners and investors

Your Qualifications

• Proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role in digital technology companies, start ups or similar
• Considerable years of experience in developing technology, ideally in a medically regulated context, in a pharmaceutical, medical device or neuroscience/psychology-based company
• Knowledge on current digital technology and development trends, e.g., VR/AR/MR, smart wearables, agile framework
• Knowledge in the latest trends in AI (i.e. classifications, recommender systems, computer vision, GANs, deep learning) and ability to discriminate the valuable advancements from the hype
• Track record of building successful consumer digital products, e.g., web applications, games, mobile apps or similar
• Experience with mobile native development frameworks
• Understanding of budgets and business-planning
• Experience with German/international data protection requirements
• Excellent communication skills and fluent in English; German is a plus
• Proven to be an inspiring leader to people and teams
• Strategic thinking and excellent problem-solving skills

Your Personal Profile

• You are an open minded thinker
• You lead your team in an inspiring and innovative way and like to motivate others
• You are focused on solutions rather problems
• With your hands on mentality you like to work in small environments as well as in scaling upon to large organisations
• Your solid ethical basement guarantees a respectful interaction with employees, colleagues, external partners, customers and shareholders
• Your curious about innovation and solutions
• You are open tot he overall context and like to think big
• As a responsible manager you don’t be afraid for unliked tasks

What we offer

• You build the team with us and help to define the way our company will work
• Shape the future of digital medicine and address an unmet medical need that affects billions of people worldwide
• Develop a product used as a real medical treatment that can change thousands of lives
• Build a great, fast-learning organization with us, with a flat hierarchy and direct communication
• Access to our network of peers and partners who are shaping the Berlin ecosystem of digital health