Chief of Staff to the CTO
RemotePoland
Job Summary
Run the engineering leadership cadence, owning director-level syncs, agenda, documented decisions, and follow-through. Take over the quarterly OKR and QBR cycle, driving teams to set objectives, chase follow-ups, and surface slippage. Maintain a live record of leadership decisions and commitments, tracking every item to closure by its agreed date. Scan continuously for stalled or ownerless cross-team work, bringing it back on track with a named owner. Drive special projects to a chartered state, then hand them off to permanent owners. Turn complex organizational inputs into concise, decision-ready material for the CTO, executive team, and board. Standardize engineering leadership planning, tracking, and communication rituals. Partner across the organization on cross-cutting initiatives, procurement, pilot contracts, and engineering tool budgeting.
Required Qualifications
- Engineering-operations / TPM leadership
- A track record running the operating system of an engineering organization
- Owned cadence, planning, and cross-team coordination at org scale
- Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous, multi-team initiatives
- Coordinated, drove, and landed initiatives through influence without direct authority
- A track record of turning raw, complex information into brief, decisive, executive-level material
- Build durable systems and follow-up loops
- Operate effectively alongside engineers, EMs, and directors
- Earn trust through reliability and follow-through
- Enough fluency to follow technical discussions and coordinate them
- Fluent English (C1+)
- Russian for internal and external technical communications
Desired Qualifications
- Prior Chief of Staff, Engineering Operations, or TPM-lead experience reporting into engineering leadership
- Experience driving operational efficiency in engineering orgs of 100+ people
- Use of automation and AI tooling to keep teams lean
- Procurement, vendor-contracting, or budgeting experience
- Nonprofit-tech or payments-domain familiarity
- Familiarity with Node.js/NestJS
- Familiarity with React
- Familiarity with MongoDB
- Familiarity with ClickHouse
- Familiarity with Kafka
- Familiarity with Cloudflare
- PCI DSS 4.0.1 familiarity
- SOC 2 Type II familiarity
- ISO 27001 familiarity
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