NorthwoodSpace
Chief of Staff to the CTO
Torrance, CA · Exec
Work authorization requiredDetected 11 days ago
Business DevelopmentLeadershipCommunicationOrganizational Skills
About the role
- If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.
- You'll work closely with the CTO, engineering Heads, and business development teams to translate strategy into clear plans, track progress, and ensure teams stay aligned as Northwood scales.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CTO, pressure-testing priorities and shaping technical direction
- Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion, ensuring clear ownership, sequencing, and outcomes
- Partner with engineering leadership to define and continuously rebalance resource allocation across product and technical priorities
- Maintain clear ownership models and execution visibility across major engineering initiative
- Design and run lightweight operating rhythms (planning reviews, roadmap syncs, weekly execution checkpoints)
- Support the development and maintenance of long-term technical and product roadmaps
- Help manage the process of aligning engineering execution with business and customer priorities
- Surface tradeoffs and constraints to support executive decision-making
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, product operations, or similar roles
- Experience coordinating complex work across multiple engineering teams
- Northwood is looking for a Chief of Staff to the CTO to help scale the impact of Northwood's engineering leadership by translating technical expertise into execution across the company.
- In this role, you'll act as the CTO's force multiplier - owning the operational, coordination, and execution work required to keep complex product and engineering efforts moving forward.
Nice to have
- Experience operating as an information hub for senior technical leadership
- Excellent systems thinking and the ability to reason about dependencies and tradeoffs
- High judgment, discretion, and ability to operate in a trusted leadership role
- Bias toward action and ownership - seeing gaps and filling them
Benefits
- Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience.
- Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Northwood.
- You may also be eligible for equity in the form of stock options or other long-term incentives, as well as potential performance bonuses.
Company info
- If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U
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