Chief Technology Officer-Indianapolis or Remote

Company Description:

myCOI is an early industry-leader in the insurance technology space providing an innovative SaaS solution for tracking, processing, and managing certificates of insurance. Our Purpose - Erase the Worry through The Work We Do - Eliminating the disruptive impact of an insurance claim. Based in Indianapolis, myCOI's proven track record of national growth and success has impacted hundreds of customers who use our products and services ranging from Fortune 100, Higher Education, Construction, Logistics, Healthcare, Property Management, down to some of our local favorite sports teams. myCOI Central offers an easy-to-use, cloud-based solution to protect organizations and ensure end-to-end compliance. It's smart technology that has our industry expertise built right in-designed to provide a single place to view COI's, compliance, and risk reporting, for vendors, suppliers, tenants, subcontractors, franchisees, and carriers. myCOI's channel partners, a great leadership team that is energetic, innovative, and goal-oriented; along with living our core values: Unite, Reach, Own It, Choose Positive and Innovate, drives our continued growth and success.

We work hard to maintain an open, supportive culture that promotes the pursuit of excellence. As a member of our team, you'll enjoy a competitive compensation package, great work-life balance and an innovative, supportive culture. We know that myCOI's success derives from great teamwork and each individual's exceptional results. Join us on our mission to disrupt, innovate, and lead the industry!

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer (CPO), myCOI is looking for a seasoned and innovative technology leader to join our executive team. In this role, you will work closely and collaboratively with other executive team members to achieve company goals. You will be the most senior technical leader across the organization and will establish the overall technical vision for myCOI. You will evangelize technology to inspire people inside and outside the company and drive change where necessary. You will play a pivotal role developing the overall engineering culture within myCOI and define the tools, technologies and processes used to ensure engineering excellence.

You are a passionate people leader, fast and structured thinker, and clear communicator at all levels. You aspire to create innovative solutions that will change the way our users reach their compliance and risk management goals. We are looking for pragmatic, collaborative leadership, highly adaptable, and with the intuitive reflex to test, iterate and turn the dials to reach the business objectives.

What Makes this a Great Opportunity:

• Represent a leading, scaling SaaS company with the most innovative technology in the industry and a 95% customer retention rate.
• Ability to inspire, drive, transform and make a significant impact to an InsurTech industry organization's people and future.
• You will have an opportunity to disrupt a sector of the InsurTech industry with your contributions to enhancing and furthering the innovation of our products and protection for your customers.
• New challenge combing your well-rounded mix of technical expertise and strategic business mindset to identify opportunities for applying innovation while effectively prioritizing business impact within a scaling organization.
• Work with supportive, driven, and thoughtful leadership and staff focused on helping you succeed.
• Culture focused on providing professional and personal growth and learning opportunities for you and your team members.
• Great work-life balance, company culture and 4-day workweek option.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Recruit, develop, manage, and scale a talented technology team committed to developing innovative solutions aligned with the company's business model, values, and vision.
• Define, architect, and execute the organizational plan required to fulfill the company's business and technology strategies.
• Partner closely with Product Management to deliver innovative and user-friendly applications.
• Ensure that technical resources meet the company's short & long-term needs.
• Define delivery roadmaps, oversee technical architecture, and explain architectural tradeoffs to internal stakeholders and developers.
• Lead the organization in the acquisition and/or development of new systems, software technology & tools, ensuring effective upgrades with no compromise to service.
• Ensure security & high up-time of the platform.
• Create a strong internal culture to manage technology projects with accurate time estimates, adherence to deadlines, and strong communication with stakeholders.
• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
• Provide input to annual budget exercises and manage organizational spending to set budgets.
• Understanding market dynamics and translating them into innovation roadmaps
• Lead all functional areas of technology including software development, enterprise architecture, quality assurance, and testing, production operations and technical support, network and systems administration, and information security management.
• Oversee the technology organization's information security, disaster recovery, and business continuity efforts.
• Work in partnership with internal functional teams as a technology partner in forwarding business capabilities.

Travel Responsibilities:

• Occasional travel for industry trade shows and events.

Basic Qualifications:

• Ideally, you have 10+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years of working as a CTO/comparable position.
• Strong understanding of, and ability to apply, leading machine learning, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence applications to customer challenges.
• Track record of building, scaling, training, and coaching high-functioning development teams. You are an excellent motivator and can also have tough conversations when needed.
• Deep SaaS experience, preferably with success leading a full next generation platform rearchitecting and redesign.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, and preferred background within the Insurance industry.
• Proven technical background with a strong understanding of architecture complimented with experience of managing technical debt & driving appropriate strategic and pragmatic choices.
• Experience with large iterative product launches while executing Sprint-based launches. Experience with CI/CD practices.
• Excellent written and oral communication, as well as presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
• Strong on data strategy & extracting/analyzing insights from multiple data sources.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field required: Master's degree highly preferred.

Compensation:

• Competitive compensation package

Benefits:

• Medical
• HSA
• 401k with match
• Dental
• Vision
• Short Term Disability Insurance
• Paternity and Maternity leave for expecting parents.
• Pet Insurance
• Life
• Paid Time Off (Holiday, Vacation, 8 hours community volunteer time)
• 4-day work week option

Location:

Ideally looking for a candidate within commutable distance of Indianapolis where most of the development team is located. Open to remote situation if needed. Office is currently virtual, and will remain so with occasional onsite team building and strategic meetings.