Chief Product & Technology officer (CPTO)

Your role

You are responsible for scaling and embedding Last Mile Solutions’ product‑and partner‑led strategy in Product & Technology, with AI‑native engineering as a core capability of how we build and deliver our solutions. The strategic direction is clear and already underway; your role is to translate this direction into consistent execution, measurable outcomes and sustainable scale.

You lead Product, Engineering, Platform and Data as one integrated system, ensuring teams operate with clarity, ownership and a strong connection to partner value. You are accountable for ensuring that Product & Technology, including the effective use of AI across the engineering lifecycle, remain a durable competitive advantage as the platform scales across Europe.

For the coming year(s) we see the next three priorities:

1. Lead with modernizing product leadership and engineering practices including the architecture

   Your responsibility is to improve platform stability and performance. Reduce incidents through strong observability, monitoring, and incident‑management practices. You will define clear team ownership and structure. You will establish a predictable roadmap, prioritization process and release cadence.

2. Modernize software, infra and organizational design

   In a holistic way, you will modernize our software architecture and infrastructure, shift the teams towards a DevSecOps ways of working and prepare the organization to work natively with AI. You help teams reduce technical debt and automate key systems. Your work creates a scalable, modern platform with the right tools and skills in place.

3. Increase innovation capacity

   In this role, you free up capacity for roadmap delivery and new value creation by strengthening product management, improving prioritization, enabling faster decision‑making and streamlining delivery and release processes. You create space for experimentation and new product development while establishing a steady innovation rhythm. Ultimately, you ensure the organization and platform are set up to build, innovate and scale again, fully ready to support future demand.

What you will do

• Execute and scale a product‑and partner‑led operating model

  Strengthen outcome‑focused product teams aligned to partner and customer value streams, with clear end‑to‑end ownership from discovery through delivery and operations. Teams are empowered to make decisions, deliver predictably and remain accountable for outcomes.

• Embed AI‑native product engineering and modern architecture

  Ensure that modern architecture, DevSecOps and AI‑native engineering practices are consistently applied across teams. AI is used deliberately to accelerate development, testing, quality, observability and learning, enhancing productivity and speed while maintaining high standards for security, reliability and compliance. Modernization is evolutionary and pragmatic, enabling independent delivery and fast feedback loops at scale.

• Enable predictable delivery and partner trust

  Establish clear product roadmaps, disciplined prioritization and transparent commitments so partners know what is coming and when. Delivery is reliable, predictable and aligned with partner expectations.

• Increase innovation capacity without sacrificing stability

  Reduce operational complexity and friction to free up capacity for experimentation, learning and faster value delivery. Strong foundations allow teams to innovate confidently while the platform remains stable and secure.

• Lead Product & Technology as a business capability

  Translate technical and product outcomes into measurable business impact. Work closely with the executive team to ensure Product & Technology priorities, including AI adoption, directly support company strategy, growth and partner satisfaction.

What success looks like

Product & Engineering teams operate with clear ownership, autonomy and accountability. Delivery is predictable and transparent. The platform scales reliably. AI‑native engineering practices materially improve productivity and speed. Innovation capacity increases while operational complexity decreases, and Product & Technology are recognized as a competitive advantage for Last Mile Solutions.

What you bring

• Bachelor or Master degree in relevant direction (Computer Science, IT, Engineering or business focused degree with relevant experience).
• 10+ years technical leadership experience, ideally in scaling digital‑first environments.
• Proven experience in a high‑load B2B SaaS/PaaS environment.
• Strong background in architecting and modernizing software and infrastructure.
• Track record of driving organizational transformation from traditional delivery to DevSecOps.
• Skilled at increasing innovation capacity through improved processes, automation and team empowerment.
• Effective communicator with a balanced, empathetic yet decisive leadership style.
• Excellent people and change leadership style: able to realign teams and accountabilities across the organization.
• Able to build strong bridges internally and externally with partners, suppliers and key stakeholders to foster effective collaboration and optimize partner value.
• Experience guiding companies through the transition from founder‑led to management‑team‑led leadership is a significant advantage.
• Fluency in English.

Why join us?

• Join a company shaping a more sustainable future as part of Europe’s leading EV charging and energy transaction platform.
• Work alongside a team of driven and curious professionals.
• Have the opportunity to make a significant leadership impact in a fast‑paced, high‑growth organization.

We offer an attractive compensation package, including:

• Bonus scheme
• Share options
• Pension scheme (partly covered by the employer).
• 38 days off (25 vacation days plus 13 ATV days)
• A company car
• Daily lunch served in our in‑house bistro