VP of Technology

Job Title: VP of Technology

Job Level: Senior, VP

Job Location: Cotopaxi HQ: Salt Lake City, UT. Eligible for remote work.

About Cotopaxi:

Cotopaxi is an outdoor gear brand founded to create sustainably designed products that fight extreme poverty, inspire adventure, and move people to do good. As a certified B Corporation, we believe in using the power of business as a force for social, environmental, and economic good. Our creed, Gear for Good, touches every aspect of our company. Cotopaxi is committed to making all of our gear using recycled, repurposed, or responsible materials by 2025. We allocate 1% of our annual revenue to the Cotopaxi Foundation which awards grants to outstanding nonprofit partners carefully selected for their track records at improving the human condition and alleviating poverty. In 2020, Cotopaxi aided 822,000 people through poverty alleviation programs, and in 2021, we hope to assist 1 million people experiencing extreme poverty.
 

Job Overview (What You’ll Do):

We are looking for a consumer-focused, passionate and enthusiastic VP of Technology to lead our IT, Security, DevOps and Engineering teams. For you, success in business is about more than profit. You have a vision for a world in which business positively impacts society, community, and environment. You are a scrappy, industrious master that loves all things technology and are capable of on-time execution.

This role sits on the executive leadership level, reporting directly to the company’s COO/CTO, and will help drive technology excellence throughout the organization.

Join a growing team that's empowering and accelerating a global movement of people using business as a force for good. 
 

Job Responsibilities (How You’ll Do It):

• Deliver scalable system and data architecture and process improvement, operational excellence, and implementation of modern technology infrastructure.
• Create and drive the technology roadmap for our web, mobile and in-store user interfaces prioritizing enhancements, add-on’s and new features against company’s objective to improve conversion rate and deliver best in class customer experiences.
• Drive holistic data lake / data warehouse deployments in close collaboration with business intelligence stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Drive software engineering excellence in terms of code creation, deployment, QA/QC, etc
• Manage technology budget including investment of new tools, scope/level of newly added team members, and professional development expenses.
• Oversee DevOps team to ensure system infrastructure, middleware and integrations are functioning and working efficiently.
• Monitor Key Performance Indicators and metrics assigned to direct reports.
• Align organizational security plan and infrastructure with overall business strategy.
• Lead the efforts to protect sensitive digital information and reduce risk of technological breaches by expanding the company’s security infrastructure in response to ongoing changes in the security landscape, including new risks, adherence to applicable regulations and disaster recovery.
• Respond to feedback from stakeholders and use it to make improvements or adjustments.
• Communicate our technology strategy to our partners as well as investors.
• Direct the organization's internal IT infrastructure, networks, end points, etc.
   

Job Requirements (Who You Are):

• Technical Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent related experience.
• 10 years of experience in Software Engineering, 5 of which are of executive leadership stature.
• Experience leading technology for a digitally native or digitally focussed brand with headless commerce stack in CPG industry.
• Experienced leading onshore and offshore teams including Software Engineering, QA, IT, DevOps and Cyber Security.
• Proven success in planning and delivering product roadmap, managing budget, schedule and resources.
• Ability to attract, develop and retain diverse teams of technical talent, creating a collaborative, inclusive and supportive environment.
• Fostering an environment of continued improvement leading to higher quality of code, stable releases, and fewer bugs.
• Effective, solutions focused, and innovative engineering style of leadership.
• Manage multiple engineering vendor contracts and relationships and determine how and when to scale vendors versus internal staff to meet short and long-term company goals.
• Previous experience in building overall platform architecture and modern application stacks delivered with automation and high availability at top of mind.
   

Character:

We take character and camaraderie seriously at Cotopaxi. We like givers and builders. Our brand is always growing and evolving, which means you’ll be evolving with it. We like to see candidates who show strong capacity for adaptiveness and flexibility. We’re a spunky company looking to prove that mission-first brands CAN win. If you join our team, you’ll be a part of something bigger than a bottom line; so, we love to see volunteering and community engagement on resumes.
 

The Work Environment:

Cotopaxi is a company that values people, impact, and adventure and our work environment reflects just that. Whether you are working from one of our retail stores, our headquarters, your couch at home, or even your van in the woods, you’ll feel the camaraderie of our amazing team of visionaries, builders and go-getters. We work hard and we play hard. We are a team of outdoorsy and indoorsy, mission-driven people looking to prove that business CAN be a force for good. So, if you join our team, you’ll be a part of something bigger than a bottom line.
 

Job Benefits (The Perks):

• Medical, dental and vision benefits.
• Company paid basic life insurance.
• Company paid short term disability coverage.
• Company paid life assistance program.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Unlimited responsible PTO.
• 60% off Cotopaxi products.
• Additional outdoor gear discounts.
• Gym reimbursement stipend.
• $1,000 stipend after 18 months for bucket list adventure.
• $5,000 stipend after 5 years for bucket list adventure.
• Company outings and gatherings.
• A fun, caring and empowering company culture!

Cotopaxi is an inclusive Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and consider all applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.