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About the Role
This role is a force multiplier for the CTO and the Product, Engineering, and Implementation leadership team, operating as an extension of the CTO. You will absorb context, make prioritization calls, wield authority, and run the operating system of a technical organization. Beyond execution, you will manage the Product/Eng org's operating cadence, budget, and people planning, and build and lead the organization's Program Management Office.
Responsibilities
- Own strategic projects, leading or staffing high-priority critical organizational initiatives.
- Manage operating cadence, including staffing meetings, roadmap planning, portfolio reviews, and leadership offsites.
- Build and lead a team of technical program managers, setting hiring and development standards.
- Own the portfolio view of in-flight programs and customer deliveries, including intake, prioritization, and delivery standards.
- Facilitate cross-functional integration across Product, Engineering, and Implementation teams.
- Manage decision and information flow to the CTO.
- Develop executive communications, including board and all-hands material.
- Partner with the People CoE on headcount planning, org design, and leveling/comp within Product/Eng.
- Own the Product/Eng budget and track spend against the plan, modeling headcount and vendor trade-offs.
- Partner with FP&A to define and track success metrics aligned with business levers.
Requirements
- Approximately 10 years in product management, technical program or portfolio management, strategy, business operations, or a role with genuine operational ownership.
- Proven ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams, competing stakeholders, and ambiguous ownership.
- Experience building or running a PMO or program portfolio with effective intake, prioritization, and delivery-tracking processes.
- Experience managing and growing a team, including hiring, coaching, and providing feedback.
- Sufficient technical fluency to engage in conceptual discussions about APIs, infrastructure, deployment, and architecture.
- Financial and operational fluency, including budget management and headcount/spend trade-offs.
- Comfort with org design and workforce planning as a partner to a People function.
- Ability to influence beyond your own team through trust, framing, and timing.
- Extreme organizational precision with legible systems and clean communication.
- Experience delivering programs under government contracts (milestones, deliverables, compliance reporting) is a plus.
- Experience building production systems with LLMs, agents, evals, or retrieval is a plus.
- Experience using engineering metrics such as DORA or SPACE is a plus.
- Background in trade, supply chain, compliance, or working with government customers is a plus.
Skills
- Program Management
- Portfolio Management
- Strategic Planning
- Budget Management
- Team Leadership
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Executive Communication
- Organizational Design
- Workforce Planning
- Technical Fluency
- Financial Acumen
- Operational Ownership
Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10 years
Salary/Compensations
- $235,000-$285,000
Benefits
- Competitive equity grants
- Discretionary bonus or variable compensation plan
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- 14-26 weeks paid parental leave
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits with generous employer contributions
- 100% employer-paid high deductible health plan with HSA contribution
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option
- Life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings program
- Commuter Benefits
- Free premium subscription to Calm
- Pet Insurance (Wishbone/Total Pet)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Dependent Care FSA
About the Company
- Altana is the network for trusted trade, using AI-powered products to empower governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
- Our values are Trust, Resilience, Stewardship, and Courage.
- We believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability.
Equal Opportunity
- Altana is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes diversity.
- Employment 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 law.
- We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type.