Chief Technology Officer, KAYAK

• Tthis role is a unique opportunity for an experienced leader and expert technologist to evolve existing products and platforms into a market-leading position
• The CTO will have demonstrated success in running a complex technology organization and delivering innovative solutions with proven business value
• This person will demonstrate strong eye for business as well as a high degree of professionalism, integrity, and dedication. They will have excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and excellent management capabilities
• Extensive experience leading large engineering teams and instilling a culture of creativity, accountability, and productivity
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality products, platforms, and services, at scale, and to measure and improve performance over time
• Experience working across functions in a complex and dynamic consumer-focused business environment
• Deep fluency with modern web, mobile, data, and infrastructure technologies, and how to deploy them at scale
• Deep skill in all aspects of web and mobile technology
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical choices and rationale to a varied audience of leaders across the company
• Ability to conceptualize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects with ease
• Experience building, empowering, motivating, and inspiring hard-working engineering teams
• Ability to inspire and engage a diverse workforce to effectively meet current and future organizational needs
• An inherent drive to build high-quality products and be proactive and relentless about pursuing them
• Strong balance of strategic and tactical skills, with a high level of intellectual agility and capacity for original thought
• Excellent collaboration, relationship management, and leadership skills
• Tenacious and resourceful problem-solving skills
• Strong focus on execution. An executive with the appropriate level of drive to effectively manage multiple critical projects, ensuring that results and deadlines are achieved
• High degree of personal and professional integrity
• Motivating leader who is passionate and can galvanize an organization

• Reporting to the CEO
• The Chief Technology Officer will work with KAYAK’s senior leadership to define and complete a technology roadmap that aligns with the overarching business strategy
• They will deliver on and operate world-class applications that drive growth and innovation into the evolving landscape. The CTO will provide strong team leadership, technical knowledge, and be an important voice in creating and achieving strategic goals
• They will work with Executive leadership to grow the company with an innovative, problem-solving attitude. This leader will be responsible for recruiting, hiring, growing, inspiring, and retaining world-class talent in the organization
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership, including the CEO, CCO, CMO
• Manage and mentor 300+ engineers building user-facing products and internal platforms
• Serve as master architect in setting the technical direction of the company, and guide teams in their technology decisions
• Attract, develop, and retain world-class engineering talent
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, impact-oriented culture that motivates and inspires teams to do ambitious work
• Drive product and technology innovation aimed at keeping the organization at the forefront of change
• Build a scalable, secure, and highly performant technology stack using industry standard processes
• Articulate and manage toward a modern platform vision
• Translate the technical direction of the company into a prioritized roadmap
• Establish and maintain a high engineering standard with a rigorous, yet agile development process
• Discover and implement new approaches to technologies that yield competitive advantage
• Provide leadership, motivation, and hands-on direction to management, design, and development teams in service to delivering outstanding technology experiences
• Ensure alignment across technology, product, and business partners
• Communicate and deliver to commitments and inspire accountability of teams by removing barriers to success

• Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
• Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
• Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
• Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
• Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
• Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms

KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.