Chief Information Officer (CIO) (100%)

• Your mission at Climeworks is to strategically manage IT resources, ensuring efficient scaling for business growth through innovative technology. You will prioritize cybersecurity to safeguard information, build strong stakeholder relationships, and foster a collaborative team culture focused on talent retention and high-quality IT services.
• You take accountability for overseeing all aspects of the organization's IT systems and processes and leverage technology to streamline operations, increase efficiency, and create business value.
• You are responsible for the enterprise cybersecurity strategy and develop and implement an IT strategy aligned with business goals, establishing policies, standards, practices, governance, and security measures to ensure effective information processing and safeguard resources.
• You lead the IT team, fostering innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while driving smart IT investments and optimizing applications, infrastructure, processes, tools, and architecture.
• You integrate security throughout the IT strategy and educate the executive team on IT, data-driven decisions, and cybersecurity.
• You build strong relationships with key stakeholders, collaborate with internal teams to adapt technologies for improved business processes, and promote IT value while facilitating awareness and interaction on IT-related topics.
• You oversee the IT organization, ensuring the company has the technology resources to meet strategic objectives, deliver effective IT services and support, manage budgets for cost-effectiveness, and ensure IT projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with required quality standards.
• You drive innovation by identifying and implementing new technologies to enhance operational efficiency and competitive advantage, foster a culture of innovation within the IT team, and stay current with technology trends to make strategic decisions about the organization's IT infrastructure.

• You possess a university degree in information technology or in a related field.
• You have over 15 years of deep IT management experience at a relevant scale, ideally in a small/medium enterprise.
• You have managed teams of over 15 people.
• You are ready to make a transition to a scale-up environment.
• You have hands-on knowledge of core end-to-end IT tools and processes.
• You have significant experience in IT service development and IT operations.
• You understand how to enable business strategy with IT capabilities.
• You have strong leadership and communication skills.
• You are an inspiring team leader and team motivator with a focus on talent management.
• You are business fluent in English.

What we offer: A horizontal organization, a great team, an improvement-oriented approach, and a scale-up venture with an innovative technology. Sounds like you? We are looking forward meeting you! Apply now by filling in the online application form and uploading your complete dossier to our career’s portal: https://www.climeworks.com/careers

Our promise: At Climeworks, you are accepted for who you are. As part of our ongoing journey towards creating a diverse and inclusive environment - we encourage everyone to apply! All qualified applicants are considered for positions, so bring along your knowledge, personal experiences, and fresh perspectives, and together we can solve one of humankind’s greatest challenges. We look forward to getting to know you!

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