About ASMALLWORLD
ASMALLWORLD (SIX: ASWN) is a Swiss-listed luxury travel and lifestyle membership company with over 120,000 members globally. We connect a curated community of discerning travellers with exclusive benefits, private experiences, and world-class concierge services. We're in an active growth phase - membership up 38% in 2025 - and are building the technology infrastructure to match.
The Role
We're looking for a commercially minded, hands-on CTO to own the tech vision and delivery for ASMALLWORLD. This is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the CEO, with full responsibility for product engineering, infrastructure, and the product roadmap.
You'll be joining at a pivotal moment: we've recently restructured the technology organisation and are investing in a modern, leaner stack. The priorities are clear - CRM activation, personalisation at scale, and building the backend infrastructure that enables and continues to accelerate the growth in our membership and travel businesses.
This is a role for a strategic thinker, a visionary, but also someone who relishes rolling up their sleeves to quickly build and test the next innovation to delight our members and drive our business forward.
Requirements
What You'll Own
- Tech strategy and roadmap, aligned to commercial priorities
- End-to-end engineering planning and delivery: product, platform, and infrastructure
- CRM and marketing technology stack (both internal and third party platforms)
- Data architecture, member, and business analytics capabilities
- Vendor and partner management, including third-party integrations (hotel and airline loyalty programmes, financial institutions and other partners)
- Hiring and development of a small, high-performing engineering team
- Security, compliance, and data governance (within the Swiss and EU regulatory context)
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience as a CTO or senior engineering leader in a consumer-facing digital business, ideally in travel, luxury, or memberships/subscriptions
- At least 6 years experience leading high performing tech teams
- Strong full-stack technical foundation - you can write and review code, make architecture decisions, and hold engineers accountable
- Experience owning CRM or marketing technology systems, both proprietary and third party (ideally Salesforce)
- Commercial acumen - you understand the importance of the customer journey (both digital and digitally-enabled), sales and marketing conversion funnels, and can connect technical decisions to business outcomes and quickly test and iterate solutions
- Proven experience identifying and delivering AI and automation projects delivering transformational business change.
- Comfortable in a lean, high-ownership, fast-paced environment
- High level of integrity and humility
- Experience with and passion for collaborating with, influencing, and learning from peers
- Fluent in English; German is a plus
Benefits
What we offer
- A competitive compensation package and flexible/hybrid working (candidate location dependent).
- Beyond the numbers, you'll join a team that is genuinely passionate about luxury travel and enjoys a range of travel benefits and exclusive perks (from 50% off rates at :1,000 hotels around the world, to car rental upgrades, and beyond)
- The chance to own the tech vision driving ASMALLWORLD's next chapter of growth