Backed by GV.
About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10 years in product management, technical program or portfolio management, strategy, business operations, or a role with genuine operational ownership — not coordination
- A record of holding multiple parallel workstreams, competing stakeholders, and ambiguous ownership, and keeping all of it moving
- Experience building or running a PMO or program portfolio. You’ve designed intake, prioritization, and delivery-tracking processes that teams use rather than work around
- Experience managing and growing a team, ideally program or project managers. You’ve hired, coached, and given hard feedback, and built a function others want to join
- Enough technical fluency to hold a real conversation with a platform engineer — APIs, infrastructure, deployment, architecture at a conceptual level — and to read a design doc and push on it. Not a coder
- Financial and operational fluency: managing a budget, speaking to variance, tackling headcount and spend trade-offs
More about this role
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.
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...
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