Chief of Staff to the CTO

The role

This role acts as a force multiplier for the CTO and the Product, Engineering, and Implementation leadership team. You will run the operating system of a technical organization, manage the PMO, and oversee the budget and people planning for the Product/Eng org.

What you will do

• Lead or staff high-priority critical organizational initiatives
• Manage operating cadence including staff meetings, roadmap planning, and leadership offsites
• Build and lead a team of technical program managers
• Own the portfolio view of in-flight programs and customer deliveries
• Surface and resolve priority collisions across sub-teams
• Manage decision and information flow to the CTO
• Create executive communications for Board and all-hands meetings
• Partner with People CoE on headcount planning, org design, and leveling/comp
• Partner with Finance to own the Product/Eng budget and spend

Required qualifications

• ~10 years in product management, technical program or portfolio management, strategy, business operations, or a role with genuine operational ownership
• Record of holding multiple parallel workstreams, competing stakeholders, and ambiguous ownership
• Experience building or running a PMO or program portfolio
• Experience managing and growing a team, ideally program or project managers
• Technical fluency in APIs, infrastructure, deployment, and architecture at a conceptual level
• Financial and operational fluency in managing a budget and headcount/spend trade-offs
• Comfort with org design and workforce planning
• Ability to influence engineers, PMs, and GTM leads through trust and framing
• Extreme organizational precision

Nice to have

• Experience delivering programs under government contracts
• Experience building production systems with LLMs, agents, evals, or retrieval
• Experience using engineering metrics such as DORA or SPACE
• Background in trade, supply chain, compliance, or working with government customers

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• 14 weeks paid leave for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents
• Up to 26 weeks paid leave for birthing parents
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 100% employer paid high deductible health plan
• Employer contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option
• Life, short, and long-term disability and AD&D insurance at no cost
• 401(k) savings program with Fidelity
• Commuter benefits for public transit or parking
• Free premium subscription to Calm
• Pet Insurance

About the company

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Its AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy.