Chief of Staff to the CTO

Responsibilities

• 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 initiatives.
• 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.

Basic 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 and comfort operating with ambiguity.

Preferred Experience

• 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.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Northwood. You may also be eligible for equity in the form of stock options or other long-term incentives, as well as potential performance bonuses. We offer comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, generous paid time off, and various other perks and discounts.