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
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Tech strategy and roadmap, aligned to commercial priorities.
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End-to-end engineering planning and delivery: product, platform, and infrastructure.
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CRM and marketing technology stack (both internal and third party platforms).
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Data architecture, member, and business analytics capabilities.
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Vendor and partner management, including third-party integrations (hotel and airline loyalty programmes, financial institutions and other partners).
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Hiring and development of a small, high-performing engineering team.
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Security, compliance, and data governance (within the Swiss and EU regulatory context).
What We're Looking For
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Proven experience as a CTO or senior engineering leader in a consumer-facing digital business, ideally in travel, luxury, or memberships/subscriptions.
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At least 6 years experience leading high performing tech teams.
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Strong full-stack technical foundation - you can write and review code, make architecture decisions, and hold engineers accountable.
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Experience owning CRM or marketing technology systems, both proprietary and third party (ideally Salesforce).
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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.
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Proven experience identifying and delivering AI and automation projects delivering transformational business change.
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Comfortable in a lean, high-ownership, fast-paced environment.
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High level of integrity and humility.
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Experience with and passion for collaborating with, influencing, and learning from peers.
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Fluent in English; German is a plus.
Benefits
What we offer
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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).
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The chance to own the tech vision driving ASMALLWORLD's next chapter of growth.
