CDI - Chief of Staff to CTO - H/F

We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to the CTO. You will work directly with the CTO (and closely with the executive team and key stakeholders) to:

1. Act as a force multiplier on cross-functional strategic topics at the intersection of IT, security, vendors, and operations.

2. Own the security roadmap

3. Track and optimize license usage and the SaaS/tooling footprint.

You will own outcomes end-to-end: clarifying the problem, structuring the plan, aligning stakeholders, executing, and ensuring follow-through. We’re looking for a problem solver at heart, above all else.

🤝 The Team

You will partner closely with:

• Engineering (~20 people in 5 squads)

• IT Support (~4 people)

• Data (~4 people)

• Product (~10 people)

…and work cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, People, and business teams depending on the topic.

⚙️ Scope

1) [60%] Strategic topics / force multiplier

Accelerate execution on CTO priorities where a single operator is needed. You will push cross-functional topics to completion (alignment, execution, follow-through) to:

• Help resolve business-critical incidents by coordinating stakeholders, restoring service fast, and ensuring durable post-mortems and action tracking.

• Drive AI initiatives to accompany business users (enablement, tooling, guardrails, adoption playbooks).

• Drive critical engineering topics that require cross-squad coordination (e.g., reliability initiatives, security-by-design, vendor/tooling choices).

• Build playbooks, dashboards, and automations (scripts/workflows) that reduce operational load.

2) [20%] Security roadmap & governance

Build and drive a pragmatic security roadmap aligned with business priorities and risk, to:

• Define the roadmap, drive execution with owners, and report progress to the CTO.

• Own security operating cadence: access reviews, risk register, vendor/security reviews, incident readiness.

• Run security awareness: phishing simulations, training, and lightweight audits.

• Partner with Engineering on cloud/security foundations (IAM, logging, monitoring, incident response drills).

3) [20%] License usage tracking & SaaS optimization

Keep a clean, actionable SaaS/tooling inventory and use it to optimize spend and access discipline, to:

• Build/maintain tooling & processes to track seats, usage, and true cost per tool.

• Lead renewals/negotiations with clear usage data and business narrative.

• Drive consolidation where it reduces risk and cost (SSO-first, fewer tools, clearer ownership).

❌ This role is not

• A technical PM for our tech squad: squads own their deliveries.

• An assistant role: you’re accountable for delivery.

• For someone who relies only on their acquired knowledge: you learn fast and can upskill quickly (e.g., you don’t need to know what AWS GuardDuty is on day one).

• A plain IC role: you will communicate with a lot of stakeholders, and will need to context switch often.