Chief Technology Officer

• Support and lead workstreams across multi-phase technology transformation engagements
• Translate business objectives into actionable technology strategies
• Contribute meaningfully to AI strategy conversations
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders
• Apply rigorous, hypothesis-driven analytical frameworks to diagnose complex technology and organizational challenges
• Track progress against milestones, identify risks, and escalate issues proactively
• Define and monitor success criteria for client engagements
• Contribute to team knowledge assets, proposals, and thought leadership

Senior Technology Strategist, Digital Strategy

• Advise enterprise customers on how to adopt and operationalise AI in ways that create measurable business impact
• Lead executive workshops and discovery engagements focused on AI strategy, intelligent automation, developer productivity, modernisation and digital transformation
• Help organisations identify high-value AI opportunities across customer experience, operations, software delivery and internal platforms
• Shape transformation roadmaps that combine AI, cloud, data and modern engineering practices into practical execution strategies
• Guide customers through the organisational, operational and technology changes required to become AI-enabled businesses
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and senior business stakeholders
• Facilitate strategic conversations around innovation, modernisation, operating models and emerging technology adoption
• Translate complex business and technology challenges into actionable transformation programmes and investment priorities
• Help clients define measurable business outcomes, success metrics and value frameworks for strategic initiatives
• Shape complex solution strategies spanning AI-enabled products, intelligent platforms, cloud modernisation and digital experiences
• Collaborate with engineering, product, design and delivery teams to define differentiated, scalable and commercially viable solutions
• Drive experience-led modernisation approaches that improve agility, resilience, speed to market and customer outcomes
• Ensure solution strategies align to modern engineering principles, platform thinking and scalable delivery models
• Support the growth of strategic customer accounts through trusted advisory and value-led engagement
• Shape strategic pursuits, proposals and large-scale opportunities across AI, modernisation and digital transformation
• Develop compelling business cases and outcome narratives that clearly articulate ROI, operational impact and strategic value
• Partner with Client Principals and delivery leaders to identify expansion opportunities and long-term growth strategies
• Stay close to developments across AI, cloud, developer tooling, platform engineering and enterprise technology trends
• Contribute to Nearform’s market propositions, strategic partnerships and thought leadership across AI and modern engineering
• Help shape new offerings and go-to-market strategies based on evolving enterprise customer needs
• Represent Nearform externally through workshops, events, industry conversations and strategic customer engagements

Field CTO

• Define and execute the company’s long-term technology and product strategy
• Partner with leadership to align product roadmap with business growth
• Build, mentor, and lead the engineering team — setting the bar for standards, architecture, and execution
• Oversee cloud infrastructure and guide decisions on stack evolution as we scale
• Own security posture across the organization, including secure development practices, identity and access management, and ensuring the right internal systems and tooling are in place to support a growing team
• Lead SOC 2 and FERPA compliance efforts and formalize processes to support district-level security reviews
• Ensure our products integrate cleanly into the school district technical ecosystem (Clever, ClassLink, SIS systems)

• Define and execute the technical strategy for Clause5afe’s entire product and platform infrastructure.
• Build, hire, and lead the engineering team from initial hires through scale (targeting 8–15 engineers in Year 1–2).
• Architect and deliver the core certification platform: client onboarding portal, document management, audit workflow tools, evidence collection, scoring/assessment engines, and certificate generation.
• Build the public certification registry — a transparent, searchable database where certification status can be independently verified.
• Develop API infrastructure for enterprise integrations, enabling clients to connect their AI systems to our monitoring and compliance tools.
• Establish security, privacy, and infrastructure standards befitting a company that certifies others on these exact topics.
• Collaborate with the CCO on translating certification methodology into scalable technical workflows.
• Support investor due diligence on technical architecture, scalability, and product roadmap.
• Manage vendor relationships for cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and third-party integrations.

Chief Technology Officer – CTO

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for IT operations, including infrastructure, cloud services, DevOps support, network management, system administration, and end-user support
• Ensure reliable, high-availability delivery of internal technology services aligned to business needs and SLAs
• Own IT service management practices, including incident, change, problem, and asset management (ITIL-aligned)
• Lead business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and readiness
• Establish and manage the IT operations budget, driving cost optimization and operational efficiency
• Track and report on KPIs, SLAs, and operational risk metrics to executive leadership
• Drive automation and modernization initiatives to improve reliability and reduce manual effort
• Own day-to-day operational security management for company systems outside of product engineering
• Triage, track, and manage incoming security issues across platforms and stakeholders
• Serve as the operational lead for security incidents, including intake, assessment, escalation, documentation, and communication
• Partner with Engineering and IT to prioritize remediation efforts and manage risk-based tradeoffs

Head of Technology – Security Operations

• You will write the first lines of production code.
• You will set the architecture, the data model, the engineering culture, and the security posture.
• You will represent the company in front of CIOs, Chief AI Officers, CFOs, security teams, and investors.
• You will recruit and lead the founding engineering and applied AI team. In return, you receive founder-level equity, founder-level authority, and a genuine partnership with the CEO on every material decision.
• Months 0–3. Ship the discovery layer with a design partner — browser extension and endpoint agent capturing AI usage across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and the long tail without per-vendor integrations. Establish the core architecture and 15-minute refresh pipeline.
• Months 3–6. Deliver the Utilization × Proficiency × Value framework, including the first GitHub/Jira correlation for engineering ROI. Convert three paid pilots. Begin SOC 2 Type II readiness with zero-content-retention as a non-negotiable design constraint.
• Months 6–9. Release GA v1 covering discovery, analytics, proficiency benchmarking, and governance controls aligned to EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF. Convert pilots to ten paying enterprise customers. Finalize pricing — including outcome-based pricing on captured savings.
• Months 9–18. Ship the governed AI access hub and expand into a vertical specialization — most likely an autonomous AI FinOps agent for a regulated industry — that no horizontal incumbent can credibly follow. Reach $1M ARR. Build out the founding team.

Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer – AI ROI Measurement Platform

• Provide thought leadership and strategic guidance across the entire HPE networking portfolio, engaging with sales, product management, engineering, and external stakeholders.
• Develop and curate industry-specific technical positions, including white papers, presentations, patents, and market positioning.
• Lead large-scale, sponsored engagements to demonstrate HPE’s technological capabilities aligned with customer needs.
• Deliver keynote speeches and industry presentations globally, tailored for executive audiences, industry analysts, and technical professionals.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of current and emerging networking technologies, standards, and industry trends.
• Collaborate with internal teams to influence product development, roadmaps, and innovation strategies.
• Mentor and role model leadership within the technical community and engage with external industry forums and communities.
• Advise executive leadership on technology strategy, industry trends, and market opportunities.
• Support inbound thought leadership initiatives by capturing industry insights and customer feedback to inform product and strategy development.
• The position will require at least 50% travel to customer, company or industry event locations globally.

Field CTO – Sr. Director of Networking Thought Leadership

• Provide thought leadership and strategic guidance across the entire HPE networking portfolio, engaging with sales, product management, engineering, and external stakeholders.
• Develop and curate industry-specific technical positions, including white papers, presentations, patents, and market positioning.
• Lead large-scale, sponsored engagements to demonstrate HPE’s technological capabilities aligned with customer needs.
• Deliver keynote speeches and industry presentations globally, tailored for executive audiences, industry analysts, and technical professionals.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of current and emerging networking technologies, standards, and industry trends.
• Collaborate with internal teams to influence product development, roadmaps, and innovation strategies.
• Mentor and role model leadership within the technical community and engage with external industry forums and communities.
• Advise executive leadership on technology strategy, industry trends, and market opportunities.
• Support inbound thought leadership initiatives by capturing industry insights and customer feedback to inform product and strategy development.

Field CTO – Senior Director of Networking Thought Leadership

• 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.

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