<div>**Compensation range for this position is $200,000 - $220,000&nbsp;<br>This is a full-time, REMOTE position that requires domestic and international travel expected at 30-50%.<br><br>Mercy Ships is seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to serve remotely. As CTO, you will provide executive leadership, strategic direction, and organizational partnership focused on the global technology function during a significant period of organizational maturity and transformation. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer and working in close partnership with the Office of the CEO, Strategy &amp; Transformation Office, Executive Leadership Team, and existing technology leadership, the CTO will evaluate the organization’s current technology environment while helping establish the long-term strategic direction, governance, enterprise architecture, and operating model necessary to support Mercy Ships' global mission.&nbsp;<br><br>During the initial phase of the role, the CTO will work collaboratively alongside existing technology leadership to develop a deep understanding of the organization’s mission, operations, technology landscape, organizational capabilities, and business priorities. As this understanding develops, the CTO will partner with executive leadership to strengthen technology strategy, governance, organizational capability, and delivery effectiveness by implementing approved improvements. This role serves as both a strategic advisor and executive technology leader, ensuring that enterprise technology enables the organization’s mission while strengthening confidence, accountability, and execution across the technology function. The CTO will provide leadership in the following areas:<br><br></div><ul><li>Enterprise technology strategy and architecture&nbsp;</li><li>Technology governance and investment prioritization&nbsp;</li><li>Technology operating model and organizational capability&nbsp;</li><li>Technology delivery and execution maturity&nbsp;</li><li>Workforce capability and leadership development&nbsp;</li><li>Business readiness and organizational adoption&nbsp;</li><li>Artificial Intelligence, automation, and emerging technology strategy&nbsp;</li><li>Long-term technology investment planning&nbsp;</li><li>Establish strong connections between organizational strategy, business capabilities, enterprise architecture, and technology investments.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><br><strong>How You’ll Contribute Enterprise Technology Leadership &amp; Strategy<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Develop a comprehensive understanding of Mercy Ships' global operations, strategic objectives, and technology landscape.&nbsp;</li><li>Evaluate the current enterprise technology environment, including enterprise architecture, infrastructure, applications, integrations, cybersecurity, data governance, operational maturity, and technology investments.&nbsp;</li><li>Develop a multi-year enterprise technology strategy aligned with organizational strategy and business capabilities.&nbsp;</li><li>Identify opportunities to strengthen enterprise architecture, reduce technical debt, improve scalability, and increase operational effectiveness.&nbsp;</li><li>Develop enterprise principles for AI, automation, emerging technologies, and responsible innovation.&nbsp;</li><li>Guide technology investment decisions through clear architectural principles and strategic alignment.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Organizational Partnership &amp; Capability Development<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Build trusted relationships with existing technology leadership, business leaders, National Offices, and operational stakeholders.&nbsp;</li><li>Evaluate the effectiveness of the current technology operating model, organizational capabilities, leadership capacity, and delivery maturity.&nbsp;</li><li>Coach, mentor, and support technology leaders while strengthening accountability, collaboration, and execution.&nbsp;</li><li>Recommend and implement approved organizational improvements that strengthen enterprise technology capabilities and long-term organizational effectiveness.&nbsp;</li><li>Foster a culture of continuous improvement, servant leadership, operational excellence, and enterprise thinking.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Technology Governance &amp; Strategic Execution<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Partner closely with the Strategy &amp; Transformation Office to align enterprise technology planning with organizational strategic planning, enterprise portfolio management, and transformation governance.&nbsp;</li><li>Strengthen governance processes supporting technology prioritization, investment decisions, architectural standards, risk management, and delivery oversight.&nbsp;</li><li>Establish strong connections between organizational strategy, business capabilities, enterprise architecture, and technology investments. Improve transparency regarding technology priorities, sequencing, and enterprise value.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Delivery Excellence &amp; Organizational Trust<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Evaluate current project and program delivery practices, including business readiness, change management, solution design, vendor management, and implementation governance.&nbsp;</li><li>Identify root causes contributing to delivery challenges, organizational friction, and execution risks.&nbsp;</li><li>Partner with technology leadership to improve execution discipline, organizational alignment, and cross-functional collaboration.&nbsp;</li><li>Lead implementation of approved improvements that strengthen delivery maturity, operational excellence, and organizational trust.&nbsp;</li><li>Help re-establish confidence in the technology function through transparency, measurable progress, and consistent executive leadership.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Executive Partnership &amp; Advisory</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li>Serve as a trusted advisor to Executive Leadership and the Board regarding enterprise technology strategy, organizational capability, emerging technology, and investment priorities.&nbsp;</li><li>Provide periodic assessments, strategic recommendations, and progress updates regarding the technology function.&nbsp;</li><li>Support executive decision-making regarding enterprise modernization, technology-enabled transformation, and long-term organizational capability.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>The Ideal Candidate</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li>Minimum 10 -15 years of progressive technology leadership experience, including executive technology leadership roles.&nbsp;</li><li>Proven experience serving as a CTO, CIO, VP of Technology, or equivalent executive leadership role within complex enterprise environments.&nbsp;</li><li>Demonstrated success leading enterprise technology transformation, organizational improvement, enterprise architecture, or operational modernization initiatives.&nbsp;</li><li>Strong enterprise architecture and systems-thinking capabilities across applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, integrations, and data.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience aligning enterprise technology strategy with organizational strategy and business priorities.&nbsp;</li><li>Demonstrated ability to build trusted executive relationships while leading organizational change.&nbsp;</li><li>Strong understanding of globally distributed organizations and multicultural operating environments.&nbsp;</li><li>Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational influence skills.&nbsp;</li><li>Travel domestically and internationally, including flights of extended duration and occasional time zone changes; travel expected at 30-50%</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Culture and Alignment<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Is aligned with Mercy Ships’ mission, core values, culture, and Code of Conduct.&nbsp;</li><li>Takes an active role in supporting the Community of Faith and lives out our Core Values.&nbsp;</li><li>Achieves a high level of trust in relationships, respects others, is open and honest, and admits mistakes.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Preferred Experience<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Experience within nonprofit, humanitarian, healthcare, maritime, or globally distributed mission-driven organizations.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience advising executive leadership teams and Boards.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience leading enterprise operating model transformation.&nbsp;</li><li>Familiarity with AI governance, automation strategy, and emerging technology adoption.</li></ul><div><br></div><div>**Compensation range listed is for U.S. hires only. Actual compensation may vary dependent upon location of hire.</div>

Chief Technology Officer

<div><strong>Senior Data Scientist</strong></div><div><br>Givelify is a fintech-for-good company where brilliant minds come to power the most loved and trusted online and mobile giving app platform. Thanks to over 2 million generous donors, we’ve helped more than 80,000 nonprofits and places of worship raise over $7.5 billion. Together, they’re changing their world with kindness and generosity.&nbsp;</div><div><br>Inc. 5000, the Stevies® Awards, Gartner, Forbes, and many more have recognized our story, innovations, and achievements. Our award-winning team builds products and experiences that put more good into the world. We love to take on big challenges because we know our work matters. &nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Make an impact at one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. Be part of a talented team of big-hearted individuals, earning competitive pay with excellent benefits.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong>About your role </strong>&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>We're seeking a Senior Data Scientist to be an early and foundational member of a growing Data Science &amp; Insights team — with a focus spanning product and business analytics at Givelify. Reporting to the Head of Data Science &amp; Insights, you will work across the full analytics stack — dashboards, metrics, experimentation, and modeling — with an immediate focus on building the business intelligence infrastructure that gives Givelify transparent, reliable visibility into how the organization is performing.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>This is a generalist senior individual contributor role by design. As the team grows and specialization becomes possible, your focus will evolve with it. For now, breadth is the asset — you are someone who can move fluidly across problem types and deliver rigorously wherever you land.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong>Your Team</strong></div><div><br>You will be part of the Data Science &amp; Insights team — driving experimentation, analytics, and modeling at the frontier of behavioral science and fintech, tackling problems most data teams never encounter. We translate the complexity of human generosity into rigorous, measurable insight that shapes products and decisions at scale.&nbsp;</div><div><strong><br>Senior Data Scientist will get to:</strong></div><ul><li>Own the development of org-wide business dashboards that provide transparent, reliable insight into company performance, functional health, and execution velocity — the infrastructure that helps Givelify understand how it is operating at any moment.&nbsp;</li><li>Partner with cross-functional teams to define, instrument, and maintain the metrics that matter — ensuring the right things are being measured, consistently and trustworthy.&nbsp;</li><li>Partner with Product and cross-functional teams to design and execute rigorous A/B and multivariate experiments that establish causation before solutions launch — embedding an experiment-first mindset into how Givelify builds and decides.&nbsp;</li><li>Work alongside the Data Science &amp; Insights team to continuously raise the bar on experimentation at Givelify — tackling hard methodological challenges like measuring the impact of experience-driven features, managing concurrent experiments, and developing approaches that make rigorous testing possible even where it has historically been difficult.&nbsp;</li><li>Build predictive and behavioral models that deepen understanding of donor and organizational behavior — segmentation, churn, propensity, and beyond.&nbsp;</li><li>Translate complex analytical findings into clear, decision-ready recommendations for executives and cross-functional stakeholders.&nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong><br>To be successful in this role, you’ll also:&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>Own your outcomes completely — you hold yourself accountable for scoping, delivery, and impact, and you execute collaboratively, knowing the best analytical work at Givelify is built with teams, not in isolation.&nbsp;</li><li>Proactively surface opportunities to bring experimentation and causal rigor to decisions across the organization — making the experiment-first mindset contagious.&nbsp;</li><li>Bring stakeholders into the analytical process early and continuously — from question definition through to recommendation — so that insights translate into action.&nbsp;</li><li>Lead with expertise and invest in others — as an early member of a growing function, your impact extends beyond your own output to how the team gets better.&nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong><br>Your experience:&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>5–8+ years of experience in data science, business intelligence, applied statistics, or advanced analytics&nbsp;</li><li>Master's or Ph.D. in Statistics, Data Science, Operations Research, Mathematics, Econometrics, or a related quantitative field&nbsp;</li><li>Strong track record building business dashboards and insight systems that drive operational visibility and executive decision-making&nbsp;</li><li>Solid experience with experimental design and causal inference — A/B testing, power analysis, difference-in-differences, propensity methods — and translating results into business decisions&nbsp;</li><li>Strong background in predictive and behavioral modeling — regression, classification, segmentation, time series, gradient boosting — with a focus on business application&nbsp;</li><li>Expert in SQL; advanced proficiency in Python (pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels, PySpark) and/or R&nbsp;</li><li>Hands-on experience with modern data stacks, Databricks preferred; broader fluency with modern data stacks essentials&nbsp;</li><li>Comfortable working across problem types — you don't need a narrow lane to do excellent work&nbsp;</li><li>Practical fluency using AI/LLM tools to accelerate analytical work (e.g., exploratory analysis, code assistance, documentation), along with an understanding of responsible AI use and data governance &nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong><br>Your superpowers:&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>You influence through evidence and storytelling — you don't just analyze; you move people and decisions with what you find&nbsp;</li><li>You translate ambiguity into clarity — where others see a messy question, you see an analytical path forward&nbsp;</li><li>You are data-informed, not data-driven — you know that data illuminates decisions, and you bring analytical rigor and human judgment in equal measure&nbsp;</li><li>You are a custodian and evangelist of causal rigor — you champion well-designed, preemptive experiments as the gold standard for knowing what works, and you carry that conviction into every analytical conversation&nbsp;</li><li>You are a player-coach — you lead with expertise, build strong processes, and make the people around you better&nbsp;</li><li>You are energized by being early — you find building more exciting than inheriting a mature function&nbsp;</li><li>You are comfortable with a shifting focus — you thrive when priorities evolve and don't need a narrow lane to do excellent work&nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong><br>Our culture:</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>We are a virtual team of award-winning and high-performing professionals who innovate and collaborate to fulfill our mission to instantly connect people to causes that matter most to them so they can change their world with kindness and generosity. Our four keys to success - integrity, heart, simplicity, and wow - fuel our passion to be recognized among the tech industry’s most inclusive and purpose-driven workplaces. &nbsp;<br><br></div><div>We are steadfast in our conviction to overcome challenges while performing meaningful work alongside some of the most brilliant minds and biggest hearts. It propels our growth as individuals and as a team. We are committed to respecting each other in our workplace, firmly believing diversity is our strength.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><br>At the heart of everything we do are our giving community, our donors and our partner organizations. We lean on research and human-centered design to consistently push the envelope and innovate our products and customer experiences. &nbsp;</div><div><br>We take great pride in providing competitive pay, full benefits to help care for you today and in the future, amazing perks (including flexible PTO), and, most importantly, the opportunity to put passion and purpose front and center.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong>About Givelify</strong></div><div>Givelify is the most loved and trusted online and mobile giving platform. Along with its powerful donation management system, it’s the fastest-growing technology for advancing generosity in the world. We instantly connect people to their heart’s impulse to do good with award-winning products and experiences. A global community of over 2 million generous people supports their favorite churches, places of worship, nonprofits, and causes with over $7.5 billion in donations across more than 80,000 organizations. Givelify leads all giving apps on the App Store and Google Play Store with more than 135,000 verified, authentic reviews with an average 4.9 out of 5-star rating.</div>

Remote Christian Business Intelligence Jobs

Explore top Christian remote and work from home Business Intelligence jobs at leading Christian tech companies, nonprofits, and churches.