Chief of Staff to the CTO

The posting, as Altana wrote it

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

The Opportunity at Altana

This role is a force multiplier for the CTO and the Product, Engineering, and Implementation leadership team. You operate as an extension of the CTO, absorbing context across every workstream, making real prioritization calls, wielding real authority, and running the operating system of a technical org that ships to both commercial and government customers around the world.

Beyond execution, you hold the business of the Product/Eng org: its operating cadence, its budget, and its people planning, in partnership with Finance and the People team. You also build and lead the org’s Program Management Office: a team of technical program managers who run the portfolio of cross-functional programs and customer deliveries.

This is a position of operational ownership and trusted judgment; ensuring the technical functions are aligned with Altana’s business strategy and corporate governance. Where the role touches comp, leveling, org design, and budget, you apply the frameworks the People CoE and Finance own. You are the CTO's embedded counterpart to those functions, not a parallel authority.

You Will

In this role, you will own

• Strategic projects. Lead or staff high-priority critical organizational initiatives identified by EPD leadership.
• Operating cadence. Staff meetings, roadmap planning and portfolio reviews, metrics reviews, and leadership offsites — set agendas, drive follow-through, document and distribute decisions.
• PMO leadership. Build and lead a team of technical program managers. Hire, develop, and set the bar for the function, and decide where TPMs are embedded versus centrally deployed.
• Portfolio and delivery. Own the portfolio view of in-flight programs and customer deliveries, intake and prioritization, and delivery standards (planning, status, risk and dependency tracking, launch readiness, government contract reporting), plus the tooling that makes delivery health visible.
• Cross-functional integration. Across the various sub-teams within Product, Engineering, Implementation and our public and private sector delivery motions — surface where priorities collide and force resolution.
• Decision and information flow. What reaches the CTO, in what form, and what gets escalated versus resolved below.
• Executive communications. Board and all-hands material and internal updates for the Product/Eng org, grounded in its real state.
• People partnership. With the People CoE, run headcount planning, org design, and leveling/comp inside Product/Eng — applying central frameworks, owning the org's read on where it's over- or under-built, and serving as the CTO's single counterpart to the People team.
• Finance partnership. Own the Product/Eng budget and spend against the plan Finance sets — track burn, flag varian

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ts lives and futures, we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus, creativity, and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable, we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission.

• Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It’s the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big, complicated network problems—the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed, but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger, and it’s demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects.

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

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