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
• 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 chase them to closure
• Identify stalled or ownerless cross-team work and establish named ownership
• Coordinate special projects through chartering, planning, tracking, and handoff to permanent owners
• Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for the CTO, executive team, and board-level audiences
• Facilitate delegated decisions to closure through documentation, escalation, and communication
• Standardize engineering leadership planning, tracking, and communication rituals and templates
• Partner across Product, Data/Analytics, BizOps, Finance, Legal, and IT on initiatives, procurement, contracts, and budgeting
• Use AI actively in day-to-day work and identify opportunities to apply AI within the function
• Establish operating cadence, map ownerless initiatives, take over the OKR/QBR loop, and set performance baselines during the first 90 days

Requirements

• Track record running the operating system of an engineering organization, likely as a TPM lead, head of engineering operations, or equivalent
• Ownership of cadence, planning, and cross-team coordination at organizational scale
• Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous, multi-team initiatives delivered through influence without direct authority
• Track record turning complex information into concise, decisive executive-level material
• Ability to build durable operating systems and follow-up loops
• Ability to work effective