Chief Technology Officer

Full Time
Austin, TX 78728
Posted
Job description

About Shop LC

We are an electronic retailer of jewelry and lifestyle products headquartered in Austin, Texas with a passionate team of approximately 550 people. Our products are sold through TV on 80m homes through our live 24*7 broadcasts, our website, OTT, marketplaces, and social media.
We are the US retailing unit and subsidiary of Vaibhav Global Limited (VGL) which is a well-established vertically integrated company, founded in India about 35 years ago and listed on the Indian stock exchanges. The company has a turnover of $246 million (in the financial year 2022).
The other retailing units of VGL Group are in the UK (Shop TJC) and Germany (Shop LC, Germany). Together, all the units ship out approximately 50,000 pieces of products to their customers in the US, UK, and Germany every day. In addition to the companies in the US, UK, and Germany, VGL Group operates offices globally in India, China, Indonesia, and Thailand.
We believe in supporting our community and protecting the environment with the purpose of Delivering Joy.
Our service to the community is run through our Your Purchase Feeds… program under which each retailing unit donates one nutritious meal to a school-going child in India, the US, and the UK for each item sold through all its platforms. Your Purchase Feeds… has provided over 40 million meals to kids until now in the US. Our mission statement embraces the ambitious goal of distributing one million meals each day to children in need by 2031. We believe that Your Purchase Feeds… provides more than just a meal: it feeds the hearts, minds, and futures of children.
We are committed to protecting the environment by constantly working on reducing our carbon footprint and becoming net zero by 2032. Our offices in India function on solar power, and each business unit is working towards getting a LEEDS certification.
We live by and are inspired by our core values of Teamwork, honesty, commitment, passion, and a positive attitude, which form the basis of every decision we make.
Chief Technology Officer - Role Overview
VGL is a house of home-grown world-class applications and platforms based on technologies including but not limited to .Net, MS ERP, Salesforce, AI-ML, and Marketing Automation.
We are looking for an experienced and result-driven CTO to join our dedicated Global IT team! As CTO of the group, you will be responsible to lead a very talented team of Salesforce, Shopify, AI & ML, .Net, Mobile, DevOps, ERP, Cloud, Security & Infrastructure, etc. You will lead all technology strategy/initiative for Digital, Ecommerce, and all business platforms of the group.
Work Location - Anywhere in the US, US, or India
Reporting Manager - Chairman of the VGL Group
Job Responsibilities
I. Managerial Responsibilities

  • Delivery of timely one to one’s (1, to 1’s) and preparing and delivering mid-year and year-end performance evaluations.
  • Promote professional and personal development of individual team members by utilizing computerized and other systems for tracking service, quality, setting productivity goals, training and coaching interventions and career opportunity programs, and for researching information and troubleshooting.
  • Provide ongoing management and coaching.

II. Individual Responsibilities

  • Responsible for company’s core technology roadmap, technology innovation, global infrastructure, application development, digital technology, business transformation and AI capabilities. Verticals include online retail, TV (OTT & OTA), call center operation, social integration, supply chain, sourcing, and manufacturing.
  • Lead the application development and delivery initiatives that includes but is not limited to designing, development, implementations of retail/supply chain/ ecommerce solutions at enterprise level by showing a comprehensive business knowledge of retail & ecommerce domain.
  • Make infrastructure strategies and closely work with our global Infra and NOC teams that oversee network, application, and data security, management, and governance, ensuring technical excellence, resiliency, and scalability in the architecting of infra solutions.
  • Lead the AI initiatives and guide a team of data scientists and AI engineers to turn data into valuable insights and build solutions to provide personalized experience to consumers by delivering innovative solutions using statistical concepts and techniques such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning.
  • Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.
  • Providing technical leadership at the enterprise level and oversee overall technology development and utilization plan and manage all information technology teams and resources.
  • Comply with company policies and procedures.
  • All other duties as assigned by manager.

Skills & Experience

  • Bachelor of Technology/Bachelor of Engineering/Master of Engineering degree in relevant technical discipline with 10+ years of experience as CTO.
  • Well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts for developing objectives and strategies for the implementation of innovative solutions while optimizing existing systems, applications, and information.
  • Experience in E-Retail/E-Commerce or another relevant industry.

Physical Requirements

  • Moving around to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces.
  • Remaining in a stationary position, standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
  • Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Benefits Provided by Shop LC

  • Company-paid, employee-only medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 4% 401(k) matching.
  • Company profit sharing.
  • Up to 15 days of PTO & vacation time, maternity/paternity leave, company-covered short-term & long-term disability, paid training time, paid volunteer time, and 7 paid holidays.
  • Corporate discounts & employee sales & discounts.
  • Tuition reimbursement and scholarship (for dependents going to college).
  • Employee Assistance Program.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,958.11 - $259,841.44 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee discount
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Vision insurance

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