Job Description: Technical Partner/CTO for an evolving eCommerce services & consultancy business
We are looking for a technical partner for an evolving eCommerce services & consultancy business.
What Is the Situation?
We are a small LLP, based in SW London, providing eCommerce services, systems integration and consultancy services to SME retailers. We have so far based our offering around an open source eCommerce platform called Magento. Magento is a potentially disruptive technology that allows small businesses, such as ourselves, to offer enterprise grade ecommerce systems to retailers and compete effectively with the existing market leaders of the ecommerce industry. Grassroots Digital aims to exploit early adoption of this technology to secure a foothold in the eCommerce services provision industry. We have won a couple of contracts to provide platforms and integration services and are at present rolling them out. At present we are working in partnership with a third party company, who provides our technical resources and software development capability. This works effectively at the moment, but it is becoming increasingly clear that a technical resource in house, fully committed to the business and its clients, is required. With this position filled, Grassroots will be in a position to raise funding, greatly accelerate its growth rate, and therefore fully exploit the opportunity that Magento offers.
What are we looking for?
The right person will have a good understanding of retail, online retail platforms, and retail logistics and be comfortable working in Linux & PHP environments & Zend frameworks. He/she will also be commercially minded & entrepreneurial, and must be keen to get involved in a business that, while it does have a modest client base, is a pre‐funding start up. The key requirement is a belief in the basic premise of the business, which is that the Magento platform can offer an opportunity to evolving retail focused web systems integrators. The responsibilities and accountabilities of the role will include • • • • • • • Presales Technical Specification Technical Project and Supplier Management Technical Development & Strategy Technology HR Business Development (Shared) Corporate Strategy (Shared)
What are we offering?
For the right person we are prepared to be flexible and can offer a combination of salary and equity. However it must be remembered that this is a start up business, so the likely pre funding salary is limited and it is hoped that the potential partner will wish to maximise their longer term return by growing an equity stake in the business.
If you are interested in talking..
Contact Justin@grassrootsdigital.co.uk or call 07980 578 401. Have a look at www.grassrootsdigital.co.uk and http://www.magentocommerce.com