Chief Technology Officer - Star-Trac

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Role: Chief Technology Officer (Chief Technology Officer) 

Company: Star / Trac

Location: Munich

About Star / Trac

For more than 25 years, we at star/trac have been enabling industrial companies to manage yard and site processes securely, efficiently, and transparently. Our focus is on complex plant environments in the chemical and steel industries, where smooth operations do not begin at the gate, but are prepared before arrival.

With our yard management platform flow, companies involve carriers and drivers in the processes at an early stage. Digital pre-registration and self-service options allow deliveries, pickups, and time slots to be coordinated and made transparent in advance.

On this basis, flow controls all processes in the yard centrally, transparently, and in real time. From arrival at the gate, weighing, and security to loading, unloading, and departure. flow combines operational processes, security requirements, and data into an integrated overall system. The result is significantly reduced throughput times, lower costs, and stable, secure operation even with high complexity.

Our customers, including numerous global players and world market leaders, value star/trac not only for its modern, scalable technology, but above all for its in-depth understanding of processes and many years of industry experience. Together with our customers, we create sustainable best-practice yards that permanently combine efficiency, transparency, and security.

Job Description: 

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a key member of the executive team charged with driving product direction, market success, and aligning company-wide vision and business goals with technology and market demands. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CTO is tasked with creating a product strategy, roadmap planning, and driving product development while leading technology and digital transformation within the organization.

The CTO will be instrumental in aligning technology initiatives with business and strategic goals, fostering innovation, and preparing the company for future growth and market leadership.

A central part of the role is defining how the product should evolve, including where AI can create meaningful value for customers and where AI-augmented, agentic ways of working can improve speed, quality, and effectiveness across the software development lifecycle.

The CTO will be the key executive responsible for setting the technological direction, driving product innovation, and ensuring successful cross-functional collaboration with the parent company.

This role requires a strategic and hands-on leader with deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and the vision to shape the future of the product while turning product and technology strategy into practical execution. The CTO will lead software development, Quality Assurance, Implementation Consulting, and Cloud Delivery and thus play a crucial role in expanding the product offering and modernizing how software is designed, built, tested, and delivered.

Key Responsibilities

Develop a vision
Working with executive management, clients and product team, the CTO will develop, share, update, and align their vision of the product with the CEO and senior management team by creating a product vision statement that acts as a guide for the whole company and the product development team in particular:

• Develop and implement a forward-thinking technology strategy that aligns with the business objectives and supports the broader goals of the parent company.
• Define a clear vision for product evolution by translating customer insights into priorities, including where AI can improve customer outcomes and create differentiation.
• Identify and integrate emerging technologies to enhance the company’s solutions and maintain a competitive edge in the market.
• Lead the exploration and development of new product features and innovations that meet customer demands and drive business growth.

Provide strategy and leadership
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) will oversee product delivery by creating processes, roadmaps, and strategies to turn the company vision and business objectives into reality. As part of this process, the CTO will:

• Lead the company’s transition toward AI-augmented and agentic software delivery, ensuring AI is applied pragmatically both in the product and across the SDLC where it clearly improves outcomes.
• Create and execute a product, architecture and engineering roadmap.
• Assess opportunities, risks, and drive decisions to best ensure the company’s competitive advantage.
• Communicate our product and technology strategy to clients, partners and stakeholders.
• Make the business case for any new product, major enhancement and/or technology initiatives.

Team development and processes

•   Coach teams on using AI and agentic practices across the SDLC to improve quality, speed, documentation, and engineering effectiveness.
•   Short and long term team design and resource planning to meet goals.
•   Attract and hire great talent - employees, freelancers and subject domain experts as advisers.
•   Nurture and grow our culture of curious problem solving, testing and shared learning.
•   Ensure clear and constantly improving delivery and quality assurance processes.
•   Set, monitor and meet KPIs.

Product, Architecture and Engineering

• Drive practical agentic development across the SDLC, improving software design, engineering, testing, QA, implementation, and delivery effectiveness through targeted use of agents and AI.
• Ownership of the specification, architecture, and implementation of the company's R&D on-going initiatives building a state-of-the-art SaaS solution.
• Evaluate and implement new tools and infrastructure, keeping up with tech trends.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration across teams to ensure timely and successful delivery of high-quality products on time and within cost structure to the business’ financial targets.
• Optimize performance and security.

Qualifications for success:

• Strong experience in software product, SaaS, or technology-enabled service environments.
• Significant experience in software product management, technology leadership or a similar role within the technology sector.
• Strong track record of interpreting customer needs and market trends, and translating them into successful product strategies and roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to shape product direction and evolution, including identifying where AI can strengthen the product and where agentic approaches can improve software delivery.
• Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted and agentic development practices across the software development lifecycle to improve engineering effectiveness, code quality, test quality, documentation, and delivery performance.
• Ability to lead and motivate teams across a variety of functional roles.
• Extensive experience in IT leadership, including infrastructure management and cybersecurity.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at all levels.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business goals into actionable technology strategies.
• Hands-on mindset, with the ability to stay close enough to product and engineering work to coach teams and lead transformation by example.
• Business level fluency in English and German.

Please submit your application using an English version of your CV.

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