Chief of Staff to the CTO

The role

The Chief of Staff to the CTO will act as a force multiplier for engineering leadership. You will translate technical expertise into execution and manage operational, coordination, and execution work to keep product and engineering efforts moving forward.

What you will do

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CTO
• Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion
• Act as an extension of the CTO in key forums
• Partner with engineering leadership to define and rebalance resource allocation
• Maintain clear ownership models and execution visibility
• Design and run lightweight operating rhythms
• Synthesize progress, risks, and dependencies into updates for leadership
• Ensure alignment across engineering, product, and BD
• 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

Required 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
• Comfort operating with ambiguity

Nice to have

• 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

Before you apply

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligib

About the company

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company building a global network of phased array and parabolic ground stations. They design, build, and deploy scalable systems for satellite missions.