Chief of Staff to the CTO

Location: Hybrid role based in Brooklyn, NY, USA; candidates must be within commuting distance of the Williamsburg, Brooklyn office.

Annual base salary: $235,000–$285,000 USD, with potential equity and bonus or variable compensation.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-powered product network that helps governments and businesses build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

What you will do

• Act as an operational counterpart to the CTO across Product, Engineering, and Implementation, making prioritization decisions and running the technical organization’s operating system.
• Lead strategic organizational initiatives, operating cadence, roadmap and portfolio reviews, leadership meetings, offsites, decision documentation, and executive communications.
• Build and lead the technical Program Management Office, including hiring, developing, and determining deployment models for technical program managers.
• Own portfolio intake, prioritization, delivery standards, customer deliveries, risk and dependency tracking, launch readiness, government contract reporting, and delivery-health tooling.
• Resolve priority conflicts across Product, Engineering, Implementation, and public- and private-sector delivery motions while managing information flow to the CTO.
• Partner with People and Finance on headcount planning, org design, leveling and compensation frameworks, budget ownership, spend tracking, variance analysis, and investment trade-offs.

Requirements

• Approximately 10 years of experience in product management, technical program or portfolio management, strategy, business operations, or a role involving genuine operational ownership.
• Experience managing multiple parallel workstreams, competing stakeholders, and ambiguous ownership while maintaining execution.
• Experience building or running a PMO or program portfolio, including intake, prioritization, and delivery-tracking processes.
• Experience managing and growing a team, including hiring, coaching, and providing difficult feedback.
• Technical fluency sufficient to discuss APIs, infrastructure, deployment, and conceptual architecture with platform engineers, read design documents, and challenge proposals; coding is not required.
• Financial and operational fluency, including budget management, variance analysis, and headcount and spending trade-offs.
• Experience partnering with a People function on organizational design and workforce planning.
• Ability to influence engineers, product managers, and go-to-market leaders through trust, framing, and timing.
• Strong organizational precision, including clear systems, clean first drafts, and concise asynchronous updates.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering programs under government contracts, including milestones, deliverables, and compliance reporting.
• Experience building production systems with LLMs, agents, evaluations, or retrieval.
• Experience using engineering metrics such as DORA or SPACE to improve team effectiveness.
• Background in trade, supply chain, compliance, or work with government customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with a required commuting distance from the Williamsburg, Brooklyn office.
• Flexible Time Off and paid parental leave of up to 26 weeks for birthing parents and 14 weeks for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents.
• Medical, vision, dental, employer-paid high-deductible health plan, HSA contribution, FSA, life and disability insurance, and dependent-care FSA.
• Full-time employees receive access to a Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, wellness resources, pet insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• hirify.global emphasizes trust, resilience, stewardship, courage, accountability, and equal employment opportunity.