We need a CTO -  are you ready to disrupt the sports and entertainment industry?

Are you a full-stack developer who loves sports and could take lead in our journey to disrupt the industry?

Due to the power of association among consumers, brands allocate an increasing amount of their advertising budgets towards sports teams and athletes.   

To measure the value of a sponsorship, sponsors rely on manual measurements and expensive consulting services. At the same time, athletes, clubs, and federations are left with few resources to decide what their commercial value is, and often forfeit revenue (and funding for their sport) by underselling their commercial value. 

To solve this problem, we have developed a tool called Foqus. Foqus is an easy-to-use machine learning tool created for sports teams and individual athletes to determine their commercial value for sponsorships, and for brands to manage and measure multiple agreements. We are currently working with Norsk Toppfotball, sports associations, clubs and and several brands, and are off to a good start to reach our goal of creating a new industry standard for how sponsorship value is created, measured, and driven.

The existing team consists of three business developers with expertise in strategy, marketing, sponsorship, data and analysis. In addition, we have associated development teams with both front-end, back-end and database expertise. We have recently become a part of StartupLab's Accelerator program, are supported by Innovation Norway and have ambitions to scale our business both nationally and internationally in the coming years.

We therefore wish to expand our team with a skilled developer who also wants to make a professional career as an entrepreneur. The CTO will have the overall responsibility for the further development and scaling of our core product, Foqus, as well as the development of new tools and concepts going forward.

Specifically, this means to:

• Manage development-teams to ensure quality and progress

• Take lead in the development of new functionality as well as prototypes for new tools in collaboration with the team and clients and users

• As the company grows, be in charge of recruiting and managing an in-house development team

As a person, we believe you have some distinctive characteristics:

• You are “full-stack”. You have at least 2-3 years of experience as a full-stack developer with the ability of developing both back-end and front-end code in HTML, PHP, React and MySQL

• You are creative and curious ny nature. You see problems wherever you go and get “cravings” for solving them in a better way than how it is solved today

• You are a “MacGyver” kind of person. You can do wonders and get things done with limited time, resources and support available

• You get a lot of your energy from working with others. You are triggered by developing technology that creates real user value in close collaboration with both customers, users, each other and partners.

The reasons why you should join us:

• First of all, because working with sports clubs, athletes, artists and brands to modernize the the sports and entertainment industry is really fun and exiting!

• You will be an integral part of a innovative company with huge international ambitions in an industry that are now beginning to invest heavily in technology and innovation

• Good salary conditions and the opportunity to build a career as an entrepreneur

• Opportunity for stock-options and ownership

• Inspiring offices and working environment at Startuplab in Oslo Science Park

• High degree of autonomy, freedom and work-life balance