Chief Technology Officer
Industry: Enterprise SaaS, AI-Enabled Software, Cloud Platforms, Cybersecurity, Data Infrastructure, and Digital Transformation Technology
Location: USA Remote
Compensation Package: $452K – $530K
About the Organization
We are a large, enterprise-scale SaaS, AI-enabled software, cloud platform, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, and digital transformation technology organization serving enterprise customers across highly complex business environments. The company builds and operates mission-critical digital products that help organizations modernize workflows, automate operations, strengthen data intelligence, improve customer engagement, protect sensitive information, and scale enterprise performance through secure, intelligent, and highly reliable platforms.
This is not a traditional technology leadership role focused only on engineering supervision, system maintenance, or product delivery timelines. The Chief Technology Officer will serve as a strategic enterprise executive responsible for shaping the company’s technology vision, platform architecture, engineering excellence, AI innovation, cloud scalability, cybersecurity partnership, product technical strategy, and long-term technology roadmap. This role will connect business growth, customer value, technical execution, product strategy, data maturity, infrastructure resilience, and responsible innovation into one integrated technology agenda.
The company is continuing to invest in AI-enabled product capabilities, cloud-native architecture, scalable platform engineering, cybersecurity readiness, data infrastructure, automation, developer productivity, enterprise integrations, product reliability, observability, technical modernization, and advanced analytics. As the organization expands, leadership is seeking a Chief Technology Officer who can bring executive-level technology judgment, architectural depth, innovation leadership, operational discipline, and strong cross-functional influence to a highly visible role.
The Chief Technology Officer will lead the company’s technology strategy across engineering, architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform development, AI and machine learning enablement, data systems, cybersecurity partnership, product technology, technical operations, innovation programs, and engineering leadership development. This executive will partner closely with the CEO, Board, Chief Product Officer, CIO, CISO, COO, CFO, Revenue Leadership, Customer Success, Data Analytics, Legal, Security, Operations, and Executive Leadership to ensure technology decisions support customer needs, business priorities, and long-term enterprise value.
This role requires a leader who understands how to build technology at scale while maintaining speed, quality, security, and reliability. The ideal candidate will know how to guide architectural decisions, modernize legacy systems, lead engineering teams, evaluate emerging technologies, support AI-enabled innovation, improve platform performance, reduce technical debt, strengthen product delivery, and communicate complex technical priorities clearly to executive and Board-level audiences.
The selected candidate will help define how the company builds, scales, secures, and evolves its technology foundation. This includes improving engineering operating models, strengthening platform governance, guiding responsible AI adoption, increasing system resilience, improving developer experience, supporting product innovation, and ensuring the technology organization operates as a strategic driver of growth.
This is a high-impact executive opportunity for a technology leader who wants to shape enterprise technology strategy, build modern platforms, lead high-performing engineering teams, and help a large remote-first technology company deliver secure, scalable, and market-leading digital products.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead the company’s enterprise technology strategy across engineering, architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform development, AI enablement, data systems, product technology, and technical operations.
• Build and execute a multi-year technology roadmap that supports product innovation, customer growth, platform scalability, cybersecurity alignment, operational resilience, and long-term business strategy.
• Partner with the CEO, Board, and executive leadership team to define technology priorities, innovation investments, platform strategy, technical risk posture, and enterprise technology direction.
• Lead engineering and architecture teams responsible for software development, platform engineering, cloud services, integrations, infrastructure reliability, data systems, and technical delivery.
• Partner closely with Product leadership to translate customer needs, market opportunities, product strategy, and roadmap priorities into scalable technology solutions.
• Guide architecture decisions across cloud-native systems, APIs, microservices, data platforms, AI services, enterprise integrations, security controls, and platform modernization.
• Lead AI-enabled innovation initiatives, including product use cases, model integration, automation opportunities, data readiness, governance considerations, responsible deployment, and measurable business value.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure technology strategies support secure development, privacy expectations, vulnerability management, regulatory readiness, and risk reduction.
• Strengthen engineering execution through delivery standards, technical planning, agile practices, DevOps maturity, code quality, testing discipline, release governance, and performance management.
• Improve platform reliability through observability, monitoring, incident management, scalability planning, disaster recovery, resiliency engineering, and production readiness standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, vendors, frameworks, and platforms that can improve product capability, developer productivity, system performance, and customer value.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to improve data architecture, data governance, analytics enablement, AI readiness, reporting infrastructure, and trusted decision intelligence.
• Manage technology budgets, engineering investments, cloud costs, vendor relationships, platform modernization spend, technical staffing plans, and technology ROI.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing technology organization with strong technical standards, innovation discipline, accountability, collaboration, and customer focus.
Job Qualifications and Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field required.
• Master’s degree, MBA, or advanced education in technology leadership, engineering, AI, data systems, or business strategy strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in technology leadership, software engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, enterprise systems, product technology, data platforms, AI-enabled technology, or engineering operations.
• 8+ years of senior executive leadership experience managing engineering organizations, technology teams, platform functions, architecture teams, cloud operations, or large-scale digital product environments.
• Experience within enterprise SaaS, AI-enabled software, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, fintech, data infrastructure, healthcare technology, digital products, or B2B enterprise technology environments strongly preferred.
• Proven success building technology strategy, scaling engineering organizations, modernizing platforms, improving reliability, leading product technology innovation, and delivering enterprise-grade software.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, software development lifecycle, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, data engineering, cybersecurity partnership, and platform scalability.
• Experience with AI and machine learning enablement, including model integration, responsible AI practices, data readiness, automation opportunities, and AI-powered product development preferred.
• Familiarity with platforms and tools such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Jira, Confluence, Tableau, Power BI, or similar systems preferred.
• Strong financial and business acumen with experience managing technology budgets, cloud spend, engineering investments, vendor costs, staffing plans, and long-term technology investment decisions.
• Experience working directly with CEOs, Boards, Product leaders, Security leaders, Engineering teams, Data teams, Finance, Legal, Revenue, Customer Success, and enterprise customers.
• Excellent executive communication skills with the ability to explain technology strategy, technical risk, architecture decisions, investment needs, and innovation priorities clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Personal Capabilities and Qualifications
• Strategic technology executive with the ability to connect product vision, engineering capability, platform architecture, customer needs, security expectations, and enterprise growth.
• Technically credible and deeply experienced in modern software engineering, cloud platforms, scalable architecture, data systems, AI-enabled products, and technology operations.
• Strong executive presence with the confidence to advise the CEO, Board, and senior leadership team on technology direction, technical risk, innovation strategy, and investment priorities.
• Customer-centered and product-minded, with the ability to understand how technology decisions affect user experience, product adoption, customer trust, and revenue growth.
• Innovation-focused but operationally disciplined, with the ability to pursue emerging technologies while maintaining reliability, quality, security, and cost control.
• Data-informed and outcome-focused, with the ability to use engineering metrics, platform performance, customer signals, cost trends, and product data to guide decisions.
• Strong people leader who can attract, develop, and retain engineering talent while building a culture of technical excellence, accountability, learning, and collaboration.
• Comfortable leading through complexity, especially during platform modernization, AI adoption, cloud scaling, security improvement, product launches, or technical transformation.
• Collaborative and able to align Product, Engineering, Security, Data, Finance, Operations, Customer Success, Revenue, Legal, and Executive Leadership around shared technology priorities.
• High integrity and discretion when handling product roadmaps, system architecture, security-sensitive information, customer data, financial plans, vendor contracts, and executive materials.
Strategic Support
The Chief Technology Officer will provide strategic leadership by ensuring the company’s technology strategy supports innovation, scalability, reliability, customer value, security readiness, and long-term enterprise performance.
This role will help leadership make better decisions about product technology, platform modernization, AI adoption, engineering investment, architecture direction, cybersecurity partnership, data infrastructure, technical debt, and operational resilience. The CTO will ensure technology is not managed only as an engineering delivery function, but as a strategic business capability that shapes market position and customer trust.
Key areas of strategic support may include:
• Enterprise technology strategy and multi-year roadmap development.
• Product technology leadership and platform innovation.
• AI-enabled product strategy and responsible technology adoption.
• Cloud architecture, platform scalability, and infrastructure modernization.
• Engineering operating model and delivery excellence.
• Data infrastructure, analytics enablement, and AI readiness.
• Cybersecurity partnership and secure development practices.
• Technical debt reduction and architecture governance.
• Developer productivity and engineering talent development.
• Observability, reliability, resiliency, and production readiness.
• Technology investment planning and ROI analysis.
• Vendor, platform, and technology ecosystem evaluation.
• Executive and Board-level technology reporting.
• Cross-functional product, engineering, data, and business alignment.
The Chief Technology Officer will help ensure the organization builds technology that is secure, scalable, innovative, reliable, and aligned with the needs of enterprise customers.
Working Conditions
• Location: USA Remote.
• Primarily remote executive leadership environment with regular technology reviews, product planning sessions, architecture discussions, engineering leadership meetings, executive updates, customer strategy conversations, and Board-level reporting.
• Flexibility required during major product launches, platform incidents, security escalations, customer-impacting issues, architecture reviews, budget cycles, technology transformation milestones, or urgent executive decisions.
• Occasional travel may be required for Board meetings, leadership off-sites, customer meetings, engineering workshops, industry conferences, vendor reviews, product strategy sessions, or company gatherings.
• Regular collaboration with the CEO, Board, Product, Engineering, Security, Data, Finance, Operations, Customer Success, Revenue, Legal, HR, vendors, and Executive Leadership.
• Fast-paced enterprise technology environment with high visibility around product innovation, platform reliability, engineering execution, cybersecurity alignment, customer trust, and technology scalability.
• Role requires handling confidential product roadmaps, architecture plans, customer data, security-sensitive information, engineering performance, technology investments, vendor contracts, and executive-level materials with discretion.
Job Function
• Executive Technology Leadership
• Technology Strategy
• Software Engineering Leadership
• Platform Architecture
• Cloud Infrastructure Strategy
• AI-Enabled Product Technology
• Data Infrastructure
• Product Technology Leadership
• Engineering Operations
• DevOps and Reliability
• Secure Development Partnership
• Platform Modernization
• Technical Innovation
• Executive Technology Reporting
• Cross-Functional Enterprise Leadership
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation Package: $452K – $530K
The total compensation package may include base salary, executive performance bonus, technology performance incentives, product innovation incentives, long-term incentives, equity participation where applicable, and additional executive-level benefits depending on experience, qualifications, and final role alignment.
Benefits may include:
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Executive performance bonus eligibility.
• Technology performance and product innovation incentive opportunities.
• Long-term incentive opportunities.
• Equity or ownership-aligned compensation where applicable.
• Retirement savings plan with company contribution.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• USA remote work flexibility.
• Board-level visibility and enterprise technology leadership authority.
• Executive coaching, leadership development, and professional growth support.
• Support for technology leadership, AI strategy, cloud architecture, cybersecurity, engineering excellence, and executive education programs.
• Wellness, employee assistance, and work-life support programs.
• Access to modern cloud, engineering, AI, observability, data, collaboration, security, and product technology platforms.
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to join a large technology-driven organization where the Chief Technology Officer will directly shape product innovation, platform scalability, engineering excellence, customer trust, and long-term enterprise growth.
The CTO will have the authority and visibility to guide technology strategy, modernize platforms, strengthen engineering practices, support responsible AI adoption, improve reliability, and build a scalable technology foundation for a remote-first enterprise.
You will work in an environment that values technical excellence, responsible innovation, customer value, data-driven decisions, security partnership, and measurable business outcomes. The company is investing in AI-enabled software, cloud platforms, enterprise architecture, developer productivity, automation, data infrastructure, and modern engineering systems.
For a senior technology executive who enjoys leading engineering organizations, building scalable platforms, advising senior leadership, and turning technology strategy into measurable business value, this role offers the scope, influence, and leadership platform to make a major impact.