Chief of Staff to the CTO

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CTO, pressure-testing priorities and shaping technical direction
• Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion, ensuring clear ownership, sequencing, and outcomes
• Act as an extension of the CTO in key forums, aligning teams and reinforcing engineering priorities across the company
• Partner with engineering leadership to define and continuously rebalance resource allocation across product and technical priorities
• Maintain clear ownership models and execution visibility across major engineering initiatives
• Design and run lightweight operating rhythms (planning reviews, roadmap syncs, weekly execution checkpoints)
• Synthesize progress, risks, and dependencies into concise updates for leadership
• Ensure alignment across engineering, product, and BD through structured, consistent communication
• Support the development and maintenance of long-term technical and product roadmaps
• Help manage the process of aligning engineering execution with business and customer priorities
• Surface tradeoffs and constraints to support executive decision-making

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, product operations, or similar roles
• Experience coordinating complex work across multiple engineering teams
• Strong organizational skills and comfort operating with ambiguity

Bonus

• Experience operating as an information hub for senior technical leadership
• Systems thinking and the ability to reason about dependencies and tradeoffs
• High judgment, discretion, and ability to operate in a trusted leadership role
• Ability to drive clarity, alignment, and momentum without formal authority
• Bias toward action and ownership – seeing gaps and filling them