Chief Product & Technology officer (CPTO)
Job Description
We are Last Mile Solutions
With over 360.000 charging stations and 1.9 million charging cards we are active in 22 countries. Last Mile Solutions is Europe’s largest independent e-mobility platform.
Our mission is simplifying the energy transition and creating a sustainable world by turning energy into value.
As our Chief Product & Technical Officer (CPTO), you’ll lead the technology vision and its execution. We are looking for a CPTO who can advance the maturity and resilience of our platform. You do this by ensuring predictable delivery and creating a modern, reliable engineering environment that accelerates roadmap delivery. This results in shorter time-to-market and drives a steady rhythm of innovation.
Our core values
Empowering Connections
Exploring with purpose
Owning our impact
Your role
You are responsible for embedding our product‑ and partner‑led strategy within our Product & Technology department. 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 we remain a durable competitive advantage as the platform scales across Europe. To achieve this you will prioritize AI native engineering as a core capability of how we build and deliver.
For the coming year(s) we see the next three priorities:
1. Modernize product leadership and engineering practices
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, infrastructure and organizational design
In a holistic way, you will modernize our software architecture and infrastructure. You 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. This will ultimately result in a scalable, modern platform with the right tools and skills in place.
3. Increase innovation capacity
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. Ensure 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. This enhances 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. You create a strong foundation allowing 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 priorities directly supports the 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 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 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
Ready to make a difference?
Apply!