Company Description
Torstar Corporation is a progressive media organization with a long, proud history in newspapers and a passion for capitalizing on the fluid world of digital and mobile media. Torstar's vision for success is driven by a deep customer-centric obsession, continued journalistic excellence, advanced data-driven competency and a culture that is selfless, focused, agile, collaborative and results driven. The successful candidate will be a champion of those priorities while keeping the customer at the heart of all the creative work that they will be doing.
Our Commitment to Diversity
We strive to be a leader in building and cultivating an employee community framed around fairness, support and opportunity. We believe that what makes us different, makes a difference. And as a team, the diversity of our backgrounds, interests and experiences is what enriches our work, and our workplaces. We welcome all, and we strive for an inclusive culture that allows individual growth and shared success.
We're looking for a highly skilled and experienced Head of Digital Technology to lead our engineering team. This is a senior-director-level position for a dynamic and hands-on leader who can drive technical innovation, manage a team of talented engineers, and align our technology strategy with business goals.
The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in software development and architecture, a proven track record of managing and mentoring high-performing teams, and a strategic mindset to build scalable and robust technology solutions. This role requires a blend of technical depth, people leadership, and business acumen.
The Head of Digital Technology is responsible for defining the overall technical strategy to support Torstar's business-critical evolution into a scalable, multi-platform news media organization that serves millions of users, advertisers and subscribers on a weekly basis. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, the Head of Digital Technology will identify and implement mission-critical solutions to enable the growth and profitability of the organization. This role will lead technology decisions that include but are not limited to: the company's network of websites; all mobile apps; data and analytics infrastructure; email platforms; content management systems; subscription, payment and identity management systems.
The Head of Technology will lead a team of software developers, QA analyst and Dev Ops engineers. As the most senior team member, the Head of Digital Technology will be accountable for the quality and stability of all solutions delivered, the velocity and reliability of the team and for supporting a disciplined but flexible agile process that increases transparency and accountability while providing all team members with a work environment where they can grow professionally and confidently focus on their work.
The Head of Technology will be a critical member of the senior leadership team charting a clear digital course for TorStar. As such, the Head of Technology will be expected to support the shaping and definition of overall digital strategy and to provide organizational thought leadership on emerging technologies and trends to equip the entire company for an exciting but ever-changing future.
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