Altana AI
Chief of Staff to the CTO
$235K–$285K
Brooklyn, NY · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- ~10 years; no alternative stated.
About the job
Owns the CTO’s operating system and the Product, Engineering, and Implementation organization’s strategic initiatives, portfolio delivery, PMO, budget, and people-planning partnership.
What you'll do
- Lead operating cadence, strategic initiatives, and executive communications for the technical organization.
- Build and lead the technical program management office; manage program intake, prioritization, portfolio visibility, and customer delivery standards.
- Partner with Finance and the People CoE on budget, workforce planning, org design, and related success metrics.
What they ask for
- About 10 years in product management, technical program or portfolio management, strategy, business operations, or another role with operational ownership.
- Experience running a PMO or program portfolio and designing intake, prioritization, and delivery-tracking processes.
- Experience managing and growing a team; technical fluency to discuss APIs, infrastructure, deployment, and architecture and review design documents.
- Financial and operational fluency, including budget management and headcount and spend trade-offs; ability to influence across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience delivering programs under government contracts.
- Experience with production systems using LLMs, agents, evals, or retrieval; DORA or SPACE metrics; or trade, supply chain, compliance, or government customers.
Pay
$235,000-$285,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
APIs, infrastructure, deployment, LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, DORA
AI focus
The posting describes Altana’s product as AI-powered and lists experience with production systems using LLMs, agents, evals, or retrieval as a nice-to-have; AI development is not a core stated duty.
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