Area: Los Angeles, California
Description: Our client is one of the country’s leading cannabis accessory companies, with a strong ecommerce platform and deep international brand awareness. They are seeking a VP of Technology to lead all aspects of technology, infrastructure planning, architecture, implementation, and support across all facets of the business. This is a tech-focused, entrepreneurial organization with a steep career trajectory for the right candidate. They are seeking a strong problem-solver who will not only manage the existing needs of the firm, but manage growth efficiently and proactively.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the organization-wide technology leader – including within operations, sales, ecommerce, supply chain, marketing, finance, and human resources
- Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades and migration activities
- Participate in the operational activities and perform independent and complex system troubleshooting when necessary
- Identify and create efficient fixes for any security risks, patches/vulnerabilities, etc
- Maintain information security of all data and implement disaster recovery and backup procedures
- Refine change control process (e.g. infrastructure, OS.) when needed
- Manage all external vendor and stakeholder relationships as they relate to technology
- Ensure robust cross-functional coordination and collaboration throughout the company
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, required, advanced degree prefered
- 7+ years of software/engineering experience, required
- Previous mergers and acquisitions experience, required
- Familiarity and experience with various tools and platforms (e.g .Net, LAMP, WISC, Magento, CRM, ERP, Fishbowl, MS NAV.i, etc.)
- Ecommerce experience
- Ability to build, manage, and lead high-performance teams
- Experience managing third party contractors
- Comfortable serving as a player-coach who will roll up sleeves to do the “dirty work” as needed alongside their team
Job Type: Full-time