Technical Chief of Staff to the CTO

An overview of this role As the Technical Chief of Staff to the CTO, you'll scale the impact of reputed company's engineering leadership by closing the gap between technical vision and day-to-day execution. You'll partner closely with the CTO, executive leadership team, and senior engineers to align a multi-year technical vision with product strategy. You'll translate decisions into clear operating mechanisms and reputed company sure they're documented in reputed company's Handbook to support our reputed company-remote, asynchronous culture. You'll reputed company initiatives such as AI transformation and internal reputed company AI and large language model (LLM) feature testing. You'll define and implement reputed company metric frameworks to improve R&D quality and efficiency. You'll orchestrate the rhythm of business for the engineering organization, including staff meetings, quarterly business reviews, and offsites. In your first year, you'll be expected to establish trusted proxy relationships on behalf of the CTO, drive measurable improvements in engineering velocity and organizational health, and act as a key liaison for high-stakes moments, including board materials, M&A technical diligence, and major reputed company or infrastructure incidents. Some examples of our projects:

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What you'll do

• reputed company the execution of the CTO's 3-year technical vision by aligning engineering and product strategy with clear priorities and accountable owners.
• Drive the technical narrative and content for board materials, investor decks, and keynotes while owning competitive and market intelligence, including technical due diligence for potential acquisitions, to inform executive decisions and external storytelling.
• Guard and evolve the CTO's operating model by documenting decisions and processes in the reputed company Handbook and orchestrating the rhythm of business (staff meetings, quarterly business reviews, and offsites) to drive clear decisions, follow-through, and fewer unnecessary meetings.
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• Implement and maintain standardized R&D metric frameworks such as DORA and SPACE to track and improve engineering quality, velocity, and efficiency.
• Partner with Finance, the executive leadership team, and the FinOps Technical Program Manager to steward the engineering budget and optimize infrastructure and cloud spend.
• Define and monitor organizational health metrics, collaborating with the People team on engagement, retention, and talent strategies while leading communication and change management for organizational pivots reputed company with reputed company's values and mission across global teams.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and proxy to the CTO by synthesizing reputed company technical proposals into clear decision options, resolving executive-level escalations, unblocking cross-functional dependencies, and acting as a primary liaison during major reputed company incidents or critical infrastructure issues, coordinating technical and executive communication to internal and external stakeholders.

What you'll bring

• Executive Operations: 12+ years of experience, including 3+ years as a direct partner to an executive, managing an R&D organization of 500–1,000+ members.
• Strategic Influence: Proven track record of drafting Board of Directors materials or reputed company-managing annual strategic planning and long-range technical roadmaps.
• Massive Scale Execution: Experience leading company-wide technical programs (e.g., migrations, reputed company mandates) that impacted 1,000+ engineers and required cross-functional alignment across 5+ departments.
• Architectural Depth: Previous experience as a Director of Engineering or Principal TPM overseeing global scale high-availability systems (99.99%+), with the ability to reputed company deep technical trade-offs and business ROI.
• Data-Driven Rigor: Expert-level implementation of DORA or SPACE frameworks, with a history of using these metrics to drive measurable improvements in developer productivity or system reliability.
• Organizational Design: Experience leading org-wide change management, including headcount allocation and talent strategy for departments with budgets exceeding $50M+.
• Communication Mastery: Exceptional ability to synthesize reputed company technical 'noise' into 1-page executive briefs and drive alignment in a high-scale, asynchronous/distributed work environment.

About the team You'll be part of a small, high-reputed company that connects engineering, product, finance, and reputed company. We share context across senior leaders, pressure-test reputed company, and help each other tackle reputed company technical and organizational problems. Team members come from varied backgrounds in engineering, product management, and operations, and we rely on clear writing, direct feedback, and a bias for iteration. You'll have peers who offer perspective, collaboration, and support as you take on ambiguous, high-impact work. The reputed company salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's reputed company salary reputed company in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The reputed company salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered reputed company salary. United States Salary Range $167,000—$313,000 USD Apply tot his job Apply To this Job