Chief of Staff – CTO

About

Fundraise Up is a digital platform that revolutionizes the way nonprofits conduct online fundraising. It offers a suite of tools designed to enhance donor engagement and boost conversion rates, including optimized campaign pages, a checkout system, and pre-built UI components.

Fundraise Up supports global fundraising with multi-language capabilities and provides comprehensive security features to protect both donor data and the fundraising process. It integrates seamlessly with various platforms and uses artificial intelligence to personalize the donation experience.

Its mission is to maximize donations for causes worldwide through innovative technology and strategic partnerships with nonprofits.

Description

• Run the engineering leadership cadence, including director-level syncs, agendas, documented decisions, and follow-through
• Take over and drive the quarterly OKR and QBR cycle, including objective updates, follow-ups, issue escalation, and review preparation
• Maintain a live record of leadership decisions and commitments and drive them to closure
• Identify stalled or ownerless cross-team work and restore it with named ownership
• Coordinate special projects through chartering and handoff, including work-distribution models, data-team setup, vendor selection, security consulting, AI-agent programs, audits, platform evaluations, and tool pilots
• Turn complex organizational and project inputs into concise, decision-ready material for the CTO, executive team, and board
• Facilitate delegated decisions to documented closure and communicate outcomes
• Standardize engineering leadership planning, tracking, and communication through rituals, templates, and operating rhythms
• Partner across the organization on cross-cutting initiatives, procurement, pilot contracts, and engineering tool budgeting
• Establish operating cadence, map ownerless initiatives, take over the OKR/QBR loop, and set baselines during the first 90 days

Requirements

• Track record running the operating system of an engineering organization as a TPM lead, head of engineering operations, or equivalent
• Experience owning cadence, planning, and cross-team coordination at organizational scale
• Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous, multi-team initiatives driven through influence without direct authority
• Ability to turn complex information into concise, decisive executive material
• Ability to build durable operating systems and follow-up loops
• Engineering background sufficient to participate in architecture discussions, identify when teams are stuck, and escalate appropriately
• Credibility with engineers, engineering managers, and directors through reliability and follow-through
• English proficiency at C1 level for written and verbal technical communication with external and internal audiences
• Fluent in English and Russian
• Nice-to-have: prior Chief of Staff, Engineering Operations, or TPM-lead experience reporting into engineering leadership
• Nice-to-have: experience with engineering organizations of 100+ people, automation, and AI tooling
• Nice-to-have: procurement, vendor contracting, or budgeting experience
• Nice-to-have: nonprofit technology or payments-domain familiarity
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with Node.js/NestJS, React, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, Cloudflare, PCI DSS 4.0.1, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001

Benefits

• 31 days off
• 100% paid telemedicine plan
• Home Office Setup Assistance: the company offers assistance with purchasing furniture (office chair, office desk, monitor)