Job description

Wolfe is growing, and we are seeking an experienced, organized, and driven VP of Technology to help us scale and change the gift card industry. This position is on-site and applicants must be able to report to our Pittsburgh, PA Office 5 days a week.
The Company
Wolfe, LLC, is an e-commerce company, located in Pittsburgh, PA, focused on next-generation gifting business models.
We are well known for being the company that started the first coupon website in 1995 which sold to a public company in 2000, at the peak of the dot-com era, when we were delivering 20 million page views per month. We then built Direct Response Technologies; grew it to 70 employees; and sold it to Digital River in 2006. We spun off Jambo Media with our tech team and sold it to Undertone in 2012.
We built and focused on GiftCards.com (http://giftcards.com/) from 2006 to 2016 and sold it to Blackhawk Network. We had over 100 employees.
Since 2016, our focus has been Gift Card Granny, PerfectGift, and GiftYa. We have roughly 150 employees and contractors. We are experiencing triple digit growth year over year for 3 years, thankfully. Our organization is committed to a positive work environment, and we prioritize our culture to continue to facilitate our high performance as a cohesive culturally enlightened team. We use OfficeVibe, Bonusly, and other leading tech tools to ensure our initiatives are effective.
Company and Executive Team Recognitions:

• 2022 First place - Fast 50 Growing Companies Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Business Times
• 2020 Best Places to Work by the Pittsburgh Business Times
• 2019 Carnegie Science Award Recipient, Entrepreneur Category
• 2017 Outstanding Entrepreneur Award Winner by the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association
• 2015 Business Times Diamond Award Winner
• 2015 Business Ethics Award Winner
• 2015 Create Award Winner
• 2015 CEO of the Year Winner Pittsburgh Technology Council
• 2014 Entreprenuer.com Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
• 2013 Governors Impact Award Winner
• 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner
• 2011 CFO of the Year Finalist
• 2011 CIO of the Year Finalist

The Role
We're hiring a VP of Technology to help steer the growth of our company as we take on more enterprise-level initiatives. This is a net-new position to increase the depth of our technical leadership. Our current technology department has 35 people, including developers, QA, and Cloud/DevOps. This group facilitates the development and operation of 3 eCommerce websites, ordering pipelines, software-as-a-service platform offerings.
The VP of Technology will provide guidance and support in the operations, hiring, and technical direction of Technology Department, and position the technology group to meet the demand of increased eCommerce volume, achieving a SaaS Platform for our card-to-card gifting technology, and operating our in-house card fulfillment system.
Responsibilities:

• Work with engineering leads to define and oversee the SDLC
• Supervise engineering managers
• Participate in the hiring process for Software Developers, QA, ITOps, and managers within the technology group. You will be the hiring manager for some of these positions.
• Manage contractor timesheets, budget, and department expenses
• Prescribe and monitor performance metrics for teams and individuals in the technology group
• Lead special, cross-team projects. Recent real examples include
• Standardizing application logging across teams
• Non-production environment standardization (collaborating with dev managers and DevOps
• Determine Application Performance Monitoring posture

• Lead Directors in Software Development, QA, and ITOps on operating modes in each department
• Coordinate with Product Owners and other stakeholders on policy

Our Technology Team
The Technology Team agrees to these principles:

Production Insight - We don't just write software, we run software. We ensure our applications and systems are working, and maintain insight into how they're performing and how they're being used.

Developer Accountability - "Done" means live, out to the world, in front of the people that are going to use it. We need people to own their work from implementation planning, through release, to on-going production awareness.

Tight Development Loop - It's cheaper to solve problems and answer questions closer to where they arise, so we have a great interest in quick reviews, quick releases, and quick adjustments.

Tools of the Trade
We use a number of tools, frameworks, and practices to run our organization. Some of them are: JIRA, BitBucket, Kanban, PHP/Symfony, React, NextJS, XRay, LinearB, DataDog, DataDome, Vercel, Kubernetes, AWS, Notion, and more.
Qualifications:

• You've led hiring initiatives for developers and other IT staff, considering team needs and make-up, as well as candidate evaluation.
• You've held a position as a VP or similar in an engineering department. You've brought about strategic change in the area of software development
• You've held a role where you were involved in technical decision-making for application development. Our current technical decisions include transitioning to a more modern stack, optimizing systems to scale with volume as we increase our platform offerings, and determining slice lines for monolith deconstruction.
• You have great organizational skills. You can describe your process for how you manage your own time, as well as the departments you oversee.
• You have experience with eCommerce and/or with a SaaS Platform environment

Compensation & Benefits
Wolfe is committed to providing its employees with a benefits package designed to give them the flexibility they need to ensure a healthy life/work balance. Wolfe offers its employees great benefits and perks, including, but not limited to:

• Medical, Prescription, Vision, Dental, and 401k
• 20 Days of PTO to start
• 11 Paid Holiday's
• Restricted Stock Units (RSU's) (This is an ownership and profit sharing program. Our employees have earned over $18m through this program since 2000)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Package
• Employee recognition program
• Charitable Donation to a Charity of YOUR Choice yearly
• Refer Friends, and if we hire them, you get awarded
• Family Picnic, Holiday Party, and other employee outings

Top 75% pay range versus other local employers
Brown bag sessions to keep you informed on the company/industry
Wolfe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Wolfe does not sponsor individuals for the purpose of obtaining H-1 Visas.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $175,000.00 - $185,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Compensation package:

• Bonus pay
• Profit sharing
• RSU

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

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