{"id":1320,"date":"2026-09-26T02:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:10:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"tech-lead-cto-m-w-d-vogel-e064d","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/poste\/tech-lead-cto-m-w-d-vogel-e064d\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Lead \/ CTO (m\/w\/d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The opportunity<\/h3>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Tax advisory has everything automation needs: structured data, recurring work, clear rules. Yet the profession never made the leap, because recurring does not mean uniform \u2013 every case has its own twist, and the law keeps moving. Reasoning resolves exactly this variance. That is why the window is open now. At the same time the market is being reordered: four in ten tax advisors in Germany leave the profession within ten years, and many of their firms will find no successor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Vogel acquires established advisory firms and develops them further. Several thousand mid-sized companies trust us with their tax, accounting and strategic matters, and every acquisition adds to that base. We have already produced our own annual financial statements with AI. Today, that is one person with a tool. Turning it into a capability of the whole company is the job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You own the technology that makes Vogel AI-first: the data layer above DATEV, the agent infrastructure on top, and the control layer without which nothing in this profession may go live. You decide the architecture and the stack of what we build. You report to and work directly with Moritz Vogel. Decisions are made in minutes, not months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<h3>What you&rsquo;ll do<\/h3>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Architecture above DATEV<\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build the data layer above DATEV. DATEV stays the system of record (for now); the value is created in the layer above it \u2013 designed to outlive the system beneath.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Choose and build the agent infrastructure: framework, orchestration, versioning, observability. You answer these questions with code, not with a slide deck.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Make integration a capability, not a project: every client brings their own upstream systems, and today each connection is built by hand. Build the layer those systems plug into, so what makes a client different arrives as context the agents read \u2013 never as custom code. One more client must never mean one more integration project.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Reproducibility and control<\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A tax advisor must get the same result twice, and an auditor must be able to trace it. Probabilistic where there is variance, deterministic where there are numbers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build the control layer so that a certified professional sees within seconds what an agent did \u2013 version, source, decision \u2013 and can sign off on it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build evaluation on what no newcomer has: decades of audited, completed work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Team and scale<\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Make the architecture calls: design, stack, build or buy for the layer. Nobody has decided it for you, and nobody will overrule it by committee.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hire and lead the engineering team. The budget for your first engineers is approved \u2013 you start hiring in your first quarter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Make every acquired firm land on the same base, so technology scales with every acquisition. And stay in the code: you commit and you review.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Open questions \u2013 yours to answer<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Where exactly does probabilistic end and deterministic begin?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">How does a system learn from closed cases without losing its reproducibility?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A new client arrives with their own systems. What may change in the system, and what may not?<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What success looks like<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>6 months:<\/strong> Architecture decided. One real use case from the core business runs in production and is used daily. Your first engineers are hired.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>12 months:<\/strong> Several agentic use cases in regular operation. The control layer holds up in a real review, and evaluation runs against closed cases, not test data.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>24 months:<\/strong> Automation is a capability of the organization, not of individuals. Every acquired firm runs on the same base, and your team ships without you in the room.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Where it leads:<\/strong> the full CTO mandate \u2013 a management career earned by contribution, not by years served.<\/p>\n<h3>What you bring<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You have built something that ran in production and was used by people who did not build it \u2013 as founding engineer, engineering lead, technical co-founder or in a comparable role.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You have taken agentic systems into production and know where they break.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You have integrated against systems that fight back: legacy ERPs, banking backends, badly documented interfaces.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You write production code. AI is your everyday tool, and your position on the stack comes from what you built and threw away.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You work in German, because our clients and tax advisors do, and you build in person in Munich.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You learn from practitioners, and you set the highest standard in everything you ship \u2013 not because someone checks, but because mediocrity bothers you.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A plus, not a requirement<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A regulated field where mistakes have consequences: fintech, banking tech, payments (N26, Trade Republic, Solaris, Klarna, Mollie, Pleo) or software for professional services (Personio, Workato).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Knowledge of accounting, tax or DATEV.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">No conventional CV required: a technical co-founder of a sold or failed product, or someone who can show publicly what they have built, is explicitly invited \u2013 we assess contribution, not labels. The salary range shown refers to the primary profile; a different background starts at a different market price and converges after twelve months of proven performance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What this role is \u2013 and isn&rsquo;t<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Building, not managing.<\/strong> You lead engineers and stay in the code. If you want to run managers, this is the wrong role.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>An operating company, not a software vendor.<\/strong> The users are our own teams. IT operations and tool rollouts sit with Operations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>In person in Munich, not a distributed team.<\/strong> An architecture being decided and a team finding its standards need a shared room.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why join us<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Turn our data into the edge.<\/strong> Decades of audited, completed work become the test every agent has to pass before a human sees its result. No newcomer can buy or rebuild that.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Leverage through acquisitions.<\/strong> Every firm that joins Vogel runs on what you build \u2013 one decision of yours reaches several thousand clients from day one, and more with every acquisition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Yours to decide.<\/strong> The architecture and the stack of this layer are open, and no committee will overrule you. Hierarchical in decisions, flat in communication, autonomous in execution \u2013 performance is celebrated, not hidden, without politics and without consensus theater.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Substance behind you.<\/strong> A profitable, growing business \u2013 no funding round decides whether your team exists.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><u>FAQ<\/u><\/h1>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em><strong>1. Was ist Vogel \u2013 und wo arbeitet ihr?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Vogel ist eine der f\u00fchrenden Mittelstandsberatungen Deutschlands \u2013 seit 1959, inhabergef\u00fchrt in zweiter Generation, mit eigenem Kapital \u2013 und baut daraus die f\u00fchrende Beratungsplattform f\u00fcr den Mittelstand. Wir arbeiten an drei Standorten: Aalen als gewachsenem Stammsitz, Bopfingen im Kerngesch\u00e4ft und M\u00fcnchen als neuem Hub. An allen dreien suchen wir quer durch die Funktionen \u2013 von Steuerberatung \u00fcber Beratung bis zu den Teams, die das Fundament darunter bauen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em><strong>2. Wie sind die Gehaltsb\u00e4nder zu verstehen?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Bewusst breit \u2013 und an jeder Stelle ausgewiesen, bevor du dich bewirbst. Wir differenzieren nach Track Record und Marktwert, nicht nach Abschluss: knappe, stark gefragte Profile am oberen Ende, weniger knappe am unteren. Die ausgewiesene Spanne ist kein Verhandlungsspielraum, sondern eine Profil-Skala \u2013 zwei Menschen mit \u00e4hnlicher Erfahrung k\u00f6nnen bei uns unterschiedlich verdienen. Was das obere Ende bestimmt, ist der Reifegrad, nicht die Zahl der Berufsjahre und nicht das Verhandlungsgeschick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em><strong>3. Wie viel \u2013 und wie \u2013 wird bei Vogel gearbeitet?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Gemessen wird an dem, was du bewegst, nicht an Stunden. Ehrlich ist aber auch: Wer 9-to-5 sucht, ist bei uns nicht die erste Adresse. Wir suchen Menschen, die aus eigenem Antrieb intensiv arbeiten, weil die Aufgaben es wert sind. Wie du deine Zeit verteilst, ist weitgehend deine Sache. Was wir teilen: Wir arbeiten pr\u00e4sent zusammen und sehen uns im Normalfall t\u00e4glich im B\u00fcro \u2013 Kultur, Sparring und die besten Ideen entstehen in der t\u00e4glichen N\u00e4he. Wir sind keine Remote-Company und haben keine gro\u00dfen Home-Office-Policies; einzelne Remote-Tage sind kein Problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em><strong>4. Wie l\u00e4uft die Bewerbung?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Schlank, schnell, transparent \u2013 und nach Profil gestaffelt. In der Regel sind es vier Schritte: eine schriftliche Aufgabe, in der du zu acht Fragen Position beziehst \u2013 KI ist ausdr\u00fccklich erlaubt, wir bitten nur um eine kurze Selbstauskunft dazu; ein Gespr\u00e4ch von einer halben Stunde; eine gemeinsame Arbeitssitzung an einem echten Problem aus unserem Alltag; und ein Termin vor Ort mit dem Team und gemeinsamem Essen. Wie viele Schritte es tats\u00e4chlich werden, h\u00e4ngt von der Rolle ab: Bei Praktikum und Werkstudium f\u00e4llt der Vor-Ort-Termin weg, f\u00fcr Sch\u00fclerjobs gen\u00fcgt ein Gespr\u00e4ch, bei Senior-Rollen kommt ein gemeinsamer Arbeitsnachmittag dazu. Vorab kannst du einen Zehn-Minuten-Call buchen, in dem nur du fragst. In der Regel h\u00f6rst du nach jedem Schritt innerhalb von 48 Stunden von uns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em><strong>5. Wie funktioniert die variable Verg\u00fctung?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Quartalsweise an Leistung gekoppelt, qualitativ bewertet. Die Skala steigt mit dem Level: bis 20 % Associate, 27,5 % Manager, 35 % Senior Manager, 42,5 % Director, 50 % VP. Erwartungswert bei guter Leistung \u2013 du erf\u00fcllst die Anforderungen, setzt eigene Akzente, bestehst den Keeper Test \u2013 liegt bei rund 50 % des Maximums; der Maximalbonus ist nicht der Normalfall. Im Fokus steht eine ganzheitliche Beurteilung durch deine F\u00fchrungskraft anhand von sechs Kriterien: Impact, Judgement, Communication, Execution, Growth und Values.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em><strong>6. Wie entwickle ich mich \u2013 welche Karrierewege gibt es?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Zwei aktive Wege: die IC-Karriere (fachliche Tiefe, Expertenlaufbahn) \u00fcber die Stufen Expert, Senior, Lead und Principal \u2013 und die Management-Karriere (F\u00fchrung, Personalverantwortung) \u00fcber Manager, Senior Manager, Director und VP. Beide werden gleich verg\u00fctet, und beide m\u00fcssen nicht nach oben f\u00fchren: Wer auf einer Stufe bleibt und dort weiter in die Tiefe geht, ist bei uns genauso richtig. Die Richtung w\u00e4hlst du nach dem Onboarding, meist in Jahr 1\u20133. Berufseinstieg ist kein Sonderweg, sondern der fr\u00fche Teil derselben Strecke \u2013 vom Werkstudenten oder Praktikanten zum Associate, f\u00fcr die Besten ohne erneutes Bewerbungsverfahren.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em><strong>7. Team, Kultur, Urlaub?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Das gemeinsame Mittagessen ist der t\u00e4gliche Ankerpunkt \u2013 wer im B\u00fcro ist, isst mit; erwartet, nicht kontrolliert. Das Abendessen ist dasselbe Angebot ohne jede Erwartung. Beides ohne Eigenanteil. Dazu Social Events und Offsites in regelm\u00e4\u00dfigem Rhythmus \u2013 nicht als Pflichtprogramm, sondern weil ein gutes Team auch abseits der Arbeit Zeit teilt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Benefits sind bei uns nicht das Sahneh\u00e4ubchen, sondern das, was Intensit\u00e4t \u00fcber Jahre tragbar macht: Examensf\u00f6rderung mit 25.000 EUR Qualifizierungsbudget und drei Monaten Freistellung, 100-prozentige \u00dcbernahme der Kinderbetreuung, EGYM Wellpass, betriebliche Altersvorsorge, Job-Ticket mit 90 % Zuschuss, Homeoffice-Ausstattung und ein Ger\u00e4t deiner Wahl aus unserem Katalog, ein Buch im Monat aus dem Vogel-Kanon \u2013 und KI-Tools ohne Token-Limit und ohne Budgetdeckel. Urlaub: 28 Tage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<hr>\n<p>Compensation: \u20ac105K \u2013 \u20ac205K \u2022 Offers Equity \u2022 \u20ac30K \u2013 \u20ac60K Bonus \u2022 Multiple Ranges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5+ Years of Experience (Full-Time) \u2022 Fix \u20ac156K \u2013 \u20ac205K \u2022 Offers Equity \u2022 \u20ac55K \u2013 \u20ac60K Bonus<\/li>\n<li>3-5 Years of Experience (Full-Time) \u2022 Fix \u20ac105K \u2013 \u20ac140K \u2022 Offers Equity \u2022 \u20ac30K \u2013 \u20ac40K Bonus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arbeitnow.com\/english-speaking-jobs\">English Speaking Jobs in Germany<\/a> on Arbeitnow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_promoted":"","_job_location":"M\u00fcnchen","_application":"https:\/\/www.arbeitnow.com\/jobs\/companies\/vogel\/tech-lead-cto-munchen-154156","_company_name":"Vogel","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job-categories":[],"job-types":[6],"class_list":["post-1320","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job-type-full-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}