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 initiative
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
Qualification
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Required
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
Preferred
Experience operating as an information hub for senior technical leadership
Excellent 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
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