Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Sustainability - Berlin

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Sustainability - Berlin

We are a rapidly growing company on a mission to scale sustainable solutions that reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and create long-term value across global supply chains. Our platform enables businesses to transition towards more sustainable practices while delivering measurable climate impact.

With strong financial backing and established partnerships with major industry leaders, we are expanding internationally and have already supported thousands of partners across Europe. Our solutions are recognised as a leading force for driving meaningful climate action at scale.

If you are passionate about building technology that enables real-world sustainability impact, this is your opportunity to shape the future.

Your Mission

As CTO , you will be the strategic and technical leader driving our technology vision. You will ensure our platform is high-performing, resilient, and ready to scale, while leading the engineering organisation to deliver robust software systems and deeply embed data capabilities into our infrastructure and products.

You’ll work closely with senior leadership to translate ambitious business goals into scalable architecture, actionable technology roadmaps, and high-performing teams. Together with our data function, you will ensure our technology stack enables advanced analytics, real-time services, and data-enriched applications that generate true customer value.

This is a hands-on leadership role, where you’ll shape the team, structure, and systems needed to bring bold product ideas to life. You will foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and excellence, ensuring technology becomes both an enabler for fast product iteration today and a driver of sustained innovation tomorrow.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Technology Leadership – Define and execute a long-term technology vision aligned with company goals, while prioritising short-term wins to accelerate product development and market traction.
• Engineering Team Growth – Build and develop a high-performing engineering team, recruit and mentor talent, and foster a values-driven culture.
• Scalable Systems – Architect and evolve a service-oriented platform that ensures flexibility, independent scaling, and high performance.
• Data Leadership – Place data at the heart of the platform by building robust pipelines, analytics, and machine learning capabilities.
• Best Practices – Champion CI/CD, code quality, security, and performance optimisation, reducing tech debt and encouraging continuous learning.
• External Representation – Communicate the company’s technical vision to partners, clients, and investors when needed.

Who You Are

• Experienced technology leader with a strong track record of building and scaling engineering and data organisations, ideally in fast-paced, mission-driven environments.
• Strategic systems thinker with experience translating business goals into scalable architectures and pragmatic technology roadmaps.
• Inspirational team builder who hires, develops, and motivates top engineering talent while fostering a culture of excellence and accountability.
• Skilled architect with experience designing modular, service-oriented, and data-first systems that balance performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Data-native leader with fluency in modern ML, analytics, and platform stacks, capable of embedding intelligence across products and decisions.
• Hands-on partner who communicates across disciplines, makes pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions, and is willing to get involved directly when necessary.

What We Offer

• Opportunity – Play a defining role in scaling a mission-driven company from an early stage.
• Impact – Contribute daily to tackling one of the most pressing global challenges of our time.
• Autonomy – High degree of ownership and creative freedom in your projects.
• Flexibility – Hybrid working model with remote options across the EU; office presence in Berlin encouraged.
• Perks – Subsidised transport, fitness membership, pension scheme, team events, and more.

We believe that a thriving workplace is built on diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and talents. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every team member feels valued and empowered.

If you are excited about this role but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply — you might be the perfect fit in ways you don’t yet realise.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Media, Technology, Information and Internet, and Data Infrastructure and Analytics

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