LetsDressUp - Chief Technology Officer

Role: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Company: LDU (LetsDressUp Fashion Private Limited)

Joining date: Immediately

Location: Sector 51, Gurgaon (we work 6 days a week)

Compensation: Fixed Salary + Handsome Equity

About LDU:

- LDU is has been selected as one of the top 17 startups (amongst 1200+ startups in South-East Asia) by Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the top VCs in the world. We are building India's version of Stitch Fix - Personalized clothing (your size, your style) at Scale. We personalize the user experience by building a Designer layer for the user through technology. Also, we leverage technology to aggregate the highly unorganized and broken supply side of tailor-units/ boutiques/ small manufacturers etc.

- LDU is a pre-series A start-up and has closed two rounds of funding. We are backed by India's top VC and angels including Sequoia Capital, Titan capital, Kearney's India CEO, McKinsey's Senior Partner, IIFL's CXO, etc. The founding team is an alumnus of NSIT (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology), 2010 and ISB (Indian School of Business), 2015. He worked as a Management Consultant at A.T. Kearney and prior to that was an Investment Banker at Nomura (ex-Lehman Brothers).

What can you expect?

You will be part of the founding team at LDU and will be responsible for the end-to-end technology of the company including:

- Formulate long-term technology & product strategy along with implementation roadmap, while envisioning the tech-stack required to scale the business 100X

- Architecting and engineering solutions across the entire technology stack including front-end, back-end, infrastructure, architecture, server-side engineering, UI, etc. in line with the company's strategy.

- Plan and collaborate with the other teams including marketing/ growth, customer success/ sales, design, operations, etc. to implement new product features, growth hacks/ initiatives identified through user interviews/ insights, etc in a timely manner.

- Build processes/mechanisms to track the KPIs across product/ technology and ensure religious execution of the targets

- Build and lead the technology team including the engineering team, product team, Quality Assurance, etc.

- Salary appraisal/ Performance reviews every 6 months (we are proud to be amongst the select few firms in the world to implement the same)

- Awesome work-culture (flexible work timings; no need to wear formals; awesome snacks to name a few)

What are we looking for?

We are looking to onboard a Chief Technology Officer, who would be a go-getter and has the following traits:

- Experience of full stack development across web & mobile based technologies and should have scaled a business to ~INR 100 Cr ARR

- Ability to build scalable products/ platforms, fully redundant fault-tolerant infrastructure while working on modern technologies.

- Stronghold in both front-end & back-end development/ algorithms with experience of building agile, highly scalable, data-driven platforms from scratch

- Ability to be hands-on with coding across big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, DevOps, business intelligent solutions, etc. apart from strategically guiding/ mentoring the team

- Ability to manage end-to-end delivery of large-scale initiatives from concept, scope, planning, estimation, project management, and deployment.

- Stronghold in executing stuff on the ground and hustle around to - Get things done-

- Ability to think and see the big picture while focusing on short term goals and deliverables

- Leadership qualities to hire and build a kick-ass technology/ product team going forward

- Experience as a founder/ being part of founding team is huge plus but not mandatory

- Experience in the Fashion/ Apparel industry is a plus but not mandatory