Chief Technology Officer
at Collective Counsel, LLC in Texas-Dallas
Position: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Hi-Tech Startup
Location: Dallas, Texas
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for an ambitious, creative, hard-working and intelligent individual with a strong, management-level website development background to join us as a member of our founding senior executive team, reporting directly to the President and CEO. This person will have primary responsibility for all technical aspects of our operations and will play a critical role in strategic planning as well as functioning as the primary interface between the non-technical senior management team and our development personnel.
We are looking for an ambitious, creative, hard-working and intelligent individual with a strong, management-level website development background to join us as a member of our founding senior executive team, reporting directly to the President and CEO. This person will have primary responsibility for all technical aspects of our operations and will play a critical role in strategic planning as well as functioning as the primary interface between the non-technical senior management team and our development personnel.
The ideal candidate should have significant experience with:
· Crowdsourcing, ranking systems and/or social networking Web development
· Both front-end and back-end Web development, including developing high performance, secure, and scalable web applications and APIs
· Building database-driven websites, including database design, architecture and optimization (MySQL)
· Working collaboratively on a tactical and strategic level
· Server-side programming languages, as well as HTML, CSS and common CMS systems and strategies, and be able to write clean and maintainable code
· End-to-end mapping of IT services
· Project/program management skills, including experience with timelines, quality control, risk assessment and budgeting
· Managing network security
· Managing technical developers
· Cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility
· Working with popular 3rd party extensions, widgets, and APIs
· Search engine optimization and web performance optimization
· Web analytics technologies and tools
A bachelor’s or master’s degree from a top tier computer science program is strongly preferred.
Who We Are
We are a development-stage company building the first Web 2.0 resource aggregation and collaboration platform for lawyers. Our innovative approach to law content aggregation and delivery has the potential to be highly disruptive to the current marketplace and earn us significant market share in the $256 billion legal services industry.
We currently have a functional prototype and are in the process of obtaining venture financing to complete the development and commercialization of our products and services. The company is led by a team of attorneys and finance professionals with public company senior executive level experience. Our prototype has been developed by a team based in India. We have taken our prototype as far as possible without the involvement of an experienced, management-level technical person, and we now seek to add such a person to our team.
Compensation Structure and Time Commitment
This position has the risk—and upside—inherent in working for a start-up company. While we do not anticipate cash flow until late 2011 or 2012, our CTO will participate in our equity compensation plan and have significant performance-based upside opportunities.
Until we close on our venture financing, expected within 3 to 4 months, this position will be unpaid and will require a time commitment of less than 10 hours per week. Once we obtain financing, the position will convert to full-time with pay. Cash compensation will initially be lower than larger companies will offer, but upside potential will be substantially greater.
This the perfect chance for someone who has dreamed of doing something big, of making a real contribution and pushing the limits of his or her potential.
Contact Us
All job applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. If you are interested in learning more, please submit your cover letter and resume to nicolelopez@collectivecounsel.com. We are an equal opportunity employer.
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL, OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY, ANY SECURITY AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR ANY PURPOSE. ANY OFFER TO SELL, OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY, ANY SECURITY WILL BE THROUGH PERSONAL CONTACT AND NEGOTIATION WITH THE COMPANY WITH APPROVED POTENTIAL INVESTORS.
Published on 02-28-2011
