In the past few months we have experienced hypergrowth in our hyperlocal business.

Our audience is up 400% year to date and growing.  We’ve launched Radar, a revolutionary consumer product and GeoToolkit and StoryMaps, products being used already by more than 1,200 local content creators.

We are also cranking on the next wave of enhancements.  Stay tuned for some exciting things in the very near future.

A lot of the credit for our growth has to go to Cory Forsyth.  Cory is one of our three founders and has been our CTO, as well as our de facto lead engineer, sysadmin, dba and troubleshooter all while helping to build out a team of talented engineers.

I’ve always felt that one of the hardest thing to do is to come up with an idea and actually build it from scratch.  It requires a special skill set.  In the past two years, Cory has demonstrated he is a master at this.

Now we find ourselves hitting an inflection point in our business where we are starting to grow and can see “massive scale” in our near future.

In order to achieve that massive scale, Cory and I have decided to look for a new full-time CTO to join our team.  This person will work with Cory, the engineering team and management to plot and execute our next wave of growth.  Thankfully, Cory isn’t going anywhere.  He will work closely with our new CTO as our Founder & VP of Engineering and is an integral part of “what’s next.”  We’re lucky to have him.

So, who should be our new CTO?

Well, for starters, it should be someone who:

• Has “been there and done that” before.  Someone who has built massive scalable online businesses before and looks at our growth and thinks “that’s a nice start, but this should be huuuuuge”.  Think hundreds of millions of pageviews and billions of impressions per month;

• Has experience with advanced semantic and NLP algorithms;

• Understands online media and advertising;

• Knows and appreciates the GeoWeb and how place and location data can make the world a better place — mapping applications, APIs, mobile platforms, etc.. are a definite plus;

• Is a hands-on team-builder and can build bulletproof battle-tested applications;

• Can plan software, systems, hardware and architecture (different options for hosting/serving, database and code base) for future growth; and

• Wants to roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty and have fun with a dynamic team.

So, we’re looking to find the perfect addition to our amazing team and would appreciate any ideas or suggestions.  Please email to jobs@outside.in with your resume or LinkedIn profile.