Chief Product and Technology Officer (London)
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With customers in 50 countries, Liv-ex is the leading fine wine exchange globally. Our vision is to make the wine market more transparent, efficient, and safe, for the benefit of our members and wine lovers everywhere. Founded in 2000, Liv-exs trading, data and market intelligence platform is used by wine businesses around the world to better understand the market and execute buying and selling opportunities.
Were at an inflection point in our journey, embarking on a transformational phase that will redefine how the wine industry operates, trades, and leverages data intelligence. Despite our market leadership, we remain an agile, entrepreneurial, focused organization where senior leaders are involved in overseeing execution.
This is a rare opportunity for a commercially minded, execution-oriented technology professional to architect the future of wine trading technology from rebuilding our trading and settlement platform from the ground up, to creating an integrated ecosystem of data, analytics, and market intelligence tools that support customers across their entire business workflow.
Liv-exs product, tech and data functions are closely coupled and co-dependent. you are a business leader, shaping strategy and delivering real-time commercial impact in a high growth, environment.
Reporting directly to the CEO, youll bring product vision, operational excellence, and a relentless focus on outcomes, introducing professional services level discipline to our product, tech and data functions. This isnt a role for a code first CTO; Partner with the CEO to convert our commercial vision into day-to-day tech execution that moves revenue, productivity, and margin within your first 90 days.
Re architect the trading & settlement platform into a scalable, intuitive, best in class experience that sets new benchmarks for the global fine wine market.
Turn data into strategy: define and roll out a comprehensive data program that reshapes how wine businesses price, trade, and operate.
Champion rapid innovation, from RPA and analytics quick wins to the groundwork for AI/ML-driven pricing, logistics, and market intel services.
Envision and ship products that extend beyond trading to leverage Liv-ex data to power customers entire workflow, from price discovery to sales strategy
Transform data into user centred tools & dashboards that influence customer behaviour and unlocks new revenue streams.
Re-imagine market intelligence capabilities: to deliver actionable insights and predictive analytics that delight customers and increase wallet share.
Embed product management excellence and customer centric, data driven decision making across the team, through all stages of the life cycle.
Oversee the data team including analysts, data science, ETL operations and QA
Architect a modern tech stack that is cloud native, secure, and ready to scale globally balancing speed, resilience, and cost.
Institute iron clad data governance & compliance, protecting customer trust while enabling frictionless innovation.
Continuously raise the engineering bar, championing DevOps, test automation, and measurable quality metrics.
Rebuild and inspire a high performing tech, product and data team
Create a culture of innovation, ownership, and commercial focus, mentoring the next generation of product and technology leaders.
Establish and own a metrics framework that measures customer satisfaction, business impact and performance, ensuring transparency and accountability across product, data and tech.
10+ years of leadership experience in product and technology roles
~ Proven track record of leading platform transformations and rebuilds
~ Experience building and scaling product, engineering, and data teams (30+ people)
~ Proven expertise in building trading platforms, data analytics, market and business intelligence tools would be a bonus
Leadership Qualities:
Entrepreneurial mindset with experience in fast-paced, transformation environments
Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud platforms, and scalable systems
Experience with data platforms, analytics tools, and business intelligence solutions
Comfortable being involved in product development and technical decisions
Experience in smaller, agile organizations where leaders wear multiple hats
Familiarity with AI/ML applications to enhance delivery of product, software, business intelligence and analytics
Passion for building products that are transformational for customers
Interest in or passion for the wine industry is a plus
- Location:
- London
- Job Type:
- FullTime