Chief Technology Officer

About Take Take Take Co-founded by 5x World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, Take Take Take is building a new home for modern chess. An AI-powered platform for players of every level who want to improve, to get personalized coaching, play chess, and share their learning journey with friends. We've already built a significant presence in the chess world, reaching 5 million people every month with our content. We just launched our new product and are incredibly excited about the future. Take Take Take is backed by SNÖ, Coatue, Lovable, Patrick Collison and others. We're a small team in Oslo, and our ambition is to build a new home for the world’s 600 million chess players, reaching 200 million users over the coming years. The Role As CTO, you'll step into a leadership role at the heart of the company, owning the technical vision and driving the technical direction together with our Head of Engineering, building on the foundation already in place. You'll lead the technical team of 4 engineers and be responsible for how this group grows, works together, and delivers. This is not a hands-on individual contributor role. You'll set direction, make the calls when things aren't working, and be accountable for the output of the whole group, while giving your people the autonomy to operate at a high level. You will stay close enough to the technology to have an informed opinion, not to write production code, but to understand trade-offs well enough to challenge or support technical decisions and how we scale. You'll bring genuine ambition and a start-up mindset. This role reports directly to the CEO, Mats (ex Oda, co-founder), and sits in the leadership team. What You'll Focus On & Achieve Instead of focusing on daily tasks, your success in this role will be defined by your focus on outcomes and impact: Accelerate Product Delivery: Drive our time-to-market as a core competitive advantage, ensuring we ship high-quality features quickly and sustainably. Architect Technical Excellence: Shape the long-term technical vision and infrastructure, ensuring our platform is built for scale, performance, and future innovation. Cultivate a High-Performing Culture: Foster an environment of autonomy and excellence where the technical team can grow, thrive, and do their best work. Drive AI Integration: Define and lead our AI strategy, ensuring it serves as a central pillar of our product experience. Lead Strategic Growth: Act as a key member of the leadership table, aligning technical direction with broader company goals for product and user acquisition. What Does Success Look Like Our ambition is to build a global chess platform reaching 200 million users. As CTO, you will play a defining role in turning that ambition into reality. You will be successful when you: Build a scalable and reliable technology platform that can support rapid global growth. Enable the organization to move quickly from ideas to high-quality user experiences.…