CTO

15+

20+

Engineering org

Whole platform and engineering org

An executive leader who translates company strategy into engineering execution, owns org-wide performance metrics, and drives organizational design. They ensure every team member understands and buys into business goals, identify areas for process evolution, and gather stakeholders to resolve issues. They clearly articulate personnel and cultural needs to advance the engineering organization, break down business directives into technology goals, and partner closely with Product leadership on strategy.

The chief technical executive who is accountable for the entire engineering organization’s performance and defines and adapts engineering culture, strategy, and operations. They serve as the primary technical advisor to the CEO and as the primary partner to the Head of Product. They provide technical perspective for company strategy, represent the technical side in board meetings and M&A discussions, and act as CISO. They set the 12-24 month technical vision, own the excellence bar across career paths, and collaborate with Staff engineers and VP/Directors to drive outcomes.

• Manages managers and directors.
• Culture leadership.
• SaaS strategy.
• Capacity planning, resource allocation, and budgeting.
• Product strategy.
• Technical mentorship.
• Cross-functional and external communication.
• Engineering metrics.
• Organizational design

• Culture leadership - defines and adapts engineering culture.
• SaaS strategy and product strategy.
• Capacity planning, resource allocation, and budgeting.
• Technical mentorship and technical strategy.
• Cross-functional and external communication.
• Engineering metrics and organizational design.
• Technical expert across the platform, collaborates with Staff engineers on architecture decisions.
• Security architecture, compliance, and due diligence.
• Build vs buy strategy and major partnership evaluation

• Owns accountability for metrics-based performance for the engineering org (eg. retention, acquisition, throughput, quality).
• Collaborates with Product leadership to define strategy across multiple teams and helps define org-level measurable outcomes.
• Can drive all internal and external communication.
• Collaborates with staff engineers to resolve cross-teams dependencies and orchestrate delivery.
• Drives engineering operations strategy.

• Accountable for the entire engineering organization’s performance (Listings, GBV, take rate, throughput, quality).
• Defines and adapts engineering culture, strategy, and operations.
• Leads major innovation bets and R&D allocation, and contributes to critical initiatives personally to de-risk them.
• Leads internal talent development toward Staff, Sr Staff, Directors and VP positions in alignment with organizational needs.
• Provides support to win enterprise/large deals, collaborates closely with Sales teams.
• Provides support to drive retention efforts, collaborates closely with CX, Strops teams.
• Accountable for technical leadership, architecture decisions, and technical direction, closely collaborating with Staff engineers.
• Accountable for org structure, talent strategy, internal communication, and engineering operations, closely collaborating with VP/Directors.
• Accountable for histing COGS and engineering SaaS spending
• Tie breaker on architecture, technical strategy, and capacity planning
• Tie breaker on team topology and OBT boundaries and major changes to engineering org structure
• Owns and evolves the Engineering Strategy framework; final decider on major build vs buy decisions, with exception of the CEO
• Owns major technical partnership decisions; leads technical evaluation for strategic partnerships
• Acts as CISO: owns security architecture, policies, compliance audits, incident response

• Translate executive strategy into engineering execution.
• Ensures that every member of the team understands the business goals for the quarter and has bought into these goals.
• Identifies areas for process evolution or clarification, gathers the stakeholders, and creates and communicates the strategy for resolving these issues.
• Clearly articulates the needs from a personnel and cultural standpoint that will move the engineering organization to the next level.
• Communicates executive-level strategy and helps break down business directives into technology goals.

• Provides technical perspective for the company strategy (what’s possible, what’s risky, what opportunities exist).
• Serves as the primary technical advisor to the CEO.
• Serves as the technical and security stakeholder on strategic initiatives (M&A targets, partnerships, product/market expansion).
• Serves as the primary partner to the Head of Product on product-engineering alignment and strategy.
• Sets and communicates 12-24 month technical vision and engineering strategy.
• Collaborates with and listens to Staff engineers for technical leadership and decisions.
• Collaborates with and listens to VP/Directors for org structure, talent strategy, internal communication, and engineering operations.
• Clearly articulates the needs from a staffing, cultural, and technical standpoint to continuously improve engineering and PDE performance.
• Communicates executive-level strategy and helps break down business directives into technology goals
• Represents the technical side in board meetings, M&A discussions, and due diligence conversations
• Owns the technical narrative for fundraising and M&A due diligence (both directions)
• Owns the excellence bar on both side of the career paths
• Ensures clear communication and optimal outcomes during critical outages and high-impact issues

• Deliver results.
• Stretegic thinking.

• Strategic thinking.
• Deliver Results.

• VP Of Engineering (original)
• VP Of Engineering (revised)

• CTO

• Has served as Director of Engineering or equivalent for 3+ years.
• Has directly developed 2+ people into Director or Staff+ roles.
• Has owned accountability for engineering metrics (retention, acquisition, throughput, quality) across multiple teams for 2+ years.
• Has led organizational design or restructuring efforts impacting 15+ engineers.
• Has partnered with Product leadership to define and deliver on org-level measurable outcomes.
• Has owned capacity planning, resource allocation, and budgeting for engineering.
• Has driven engineering operations strategy (processes, tooling, delivery practices) at scale.
• Has led hiring strategy resulting in 10+ senior hires (Sr Engineer and above).
• Has navigated and resolved cross-functional conflicts at the executive level

• Has served as VP of Engineering, Sr Staff Engineer, or equivalent for 10+ years.
• Has led technical due diligence for M&A or fundraising.
• Has championed and executed 3+ major technical migrations or platform initiatives.
• Has mentored and championed the promotion of 10+ ICs to Staff+ or Director+ level.
• Has owned security architecture and compliance responsibilities.
• Has led and delivered substantial infrastructure COGS optimizations.
• Has partnered closely with Product leadership on cross-functional strategy.