Chief Technology Officer

Background And Overview

Growth Signals builds and delivers enterprise‑grade software solutions where reliability, security, and execution discipline are foundational to customer trust and long‑term success. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a core executive leadership role, responsible for defining and executing the company’s technology and product strategy.

This role carries ownership of technical decision‑making across product, architecture, engineering delivery, platform reliability, security, data, and AI systems. The CTO will partner closely with the CEO and executive leadership team to translate business strategy into a clear, durable technical roadmap, while working deeply with Engineering, Product, and Delivery teams to drive predictable, high‑quality outcomes.

The ideal candidate is an experienced, technically credible leader who understands how to operate production systems in real enterprise environments—balancing innovation with stability, urgency with discipline, and short‑term delivery with long‑term platform health.

Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end technical direction for Growth Signals, encompassing application architecture, APIs, infrastructure, integrations, data platforms, and AI systems.
• Define and execute a technology roadmap aligned with enterprise customer requirements, security expectations, and company growth objectives.
• Lead the engineering and product organizations with clear ownership and accountability.
• Establish and maintain a disciplined engineering operating model covering planning, execution, testing, release management, and post‑deployment support.
• Make architectural decisions that ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability across distributed systems and multi‑tenant SaaS environments.
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence, including observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, on‑call readiness, and post‑incident review processes.
• Own secure development standards and practices, including threat modeling, identity and access controls, data protection, dependency management, and API security.
• Lead enterprise security and compliance efforts, including SOC 2 readiness, audits, penetration testing, and customer security reviews.
• Partner closely with Product to evaluate technical feasibility, manage tradeoffs, and sequence delivery while controlling technical debt.
• Provide executive‑level technical leadership during complex enterprise deployments, escalations, and architecture reviews.
• Guide AI and automation initiatives (LLMs, GenAI workflows, agent frameworks) with an emphasis on reliability, evaluation, monitoring, and enterprise safety.
• Establish strong technical documentation, architectural decision records (ADRs), and knowledge‑sharing practices across teams.
• Serve as the executive technical authority for Growth Signals with customers, partners, auditors, and senior technical candidates.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of hands‑on experience in software engineering, with significant ownership of production systems at scale.
• 5 years in senior technical leadership roles (CTO, VP Engineering, Director, or equivalent) with responsibility for architecture and delivery.
• Strong background designing and operating modern SaaS platforms, including APIs, distributed systems, and cloud‑native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proven experience delivering secure, reliable software to enterprise customers with high availability and compliance expectations.
• Deep understanding of software delivery discipline, including CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
• Strong security mindset with experience supporting audits, enterprise security diligence, and risk management.
• Ability to translate complex and ambiguous business needs into clear technical strategy and execution plans.
• Excellent communication skills with engineering teams, executive leadership, and enterprise stakeholders.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling technology platforms and engineering organizations in enterprise or growth‑stage SaaS companies.
• Background supporting complex enterprise implementations in regulated or high‑trust environments.
• Familiarity with AI/ML and GenAI systems, including integration patterns, evaluation frameworks, and operational monitoring.
• Experience owning or leading SOC 2, ISO‑aligned controls, or similar compliance programs.
• Exposure to platform engineering, developer productivity tooling, or reliability engineering disciplines.