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Chief Product and Technology Officer
Location: Borough, London
Competitive salary dependent on experience. Company performance-related profit share, healthcare insurance & wellbeing benefits.
Unique opportunity for a Product minded Technology leader to shape the future of fine wine trading and future proof Liv-ex as the go to trading, data and market intelligence platform for the global industry.
About Liv-ex
Liv-ex is the world’s leading fine wine exchange, serving over 50 countries. We aim to make the wine market more transparent, efficient and safe. Our culture is hardworking, entrepreneurial and friendly.
We're entering a transformational phase to redefine industry operations, trade and data intelligence, while remaining agile and execution-focused.
Summary Purpose
This is a rare opportunity for a commercially minded, execution-oriented technology leader to architect the future of wine trading technology: rebuilding our trading and settlement platform and creating an integrated data, analytics and market-intelligence ecosystem. You’ll be more than a technologist – you’ll be a business leader shaping strategy and delivering real-time commercial impact in a high growth environment.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll bring product vision, operational excellence, and professional services discipline cross product, tech and data. We seek a builder, strategist and leader – someone who thrives on complexity and drives visible business change from day one.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Partner with the CEO to convert our commercial vision into day-to-day tech execution that drives revenue and margin.
- 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.
Product & Data Innovation
- 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
- 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
Technology Excellence
- Architect a modern tech stack that is cloud native, secure, and ready to scale globally - balancing speed and cost.
- Integrate best in class third party tools, who can vet, deploy, and drive adoption across 550 business customers in 50 countries.
- 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.
Team Building & Leadership
- 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.
- Partner with executives, investors, and department heads to ensure every initiative is ROI driven and tightly aligned with business goals.
- Manage vendors and budgets, squeezing maximum impact from every pound and dollar.
- Own a metrics framework that measures customer satisfaction, business impact and performance, ensuring transparency and accountability across product, data and tech.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential:
- 10+ years of leadership experience in product and technology roles
- Proven track record leading platform transformations
- Experience building and scaling product, engineering, and data teams (30+ people)
- Strong leadership approach with willingness to oversee execution
- Experience in growth-stage companies balancing strategy and execution
- Expertise in trading platforms, data analytics and business intelligence tools a plus
Leadership Qualities:
- Visionary thinking and ability to execute strategy
- Entrepreneurial mindset with experience in fast-paced, transformation environments
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills
- Collaborative style with experience of working with CEOs/ leadership teams
- Results-oriented approach with a track record of delivering complex initiatives on time and budget
Technical Expertise:
- Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud platforms, and scalable systems
- Experience with data platforms, analytics tools, and business intelligence solutions
- Hands-on leadership and ability to work directly with teams and contribute to execution
- Comfortable being involved in product development and technical decisions
- Experience in smaller, agile organizations where leaders wear multiple hats
- Knowledge of trading systems, markets, or exchange dynamics preferred
- Familiarity with AI/ML applications to enhance delivery of product, software, business intelligence and analytics
Personal Attributes:
- Passion for building products that are transformational for customers
- Comfortable with ambiguity in dynamic environments
- Strong business acumen with understanding of P&L responsibility
- Interest in or passion for the wine industry is a plus
To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role to [email protected].
