Chief Technology and Product Officer

About the business

A private equity backed B2B SaaS business operating across Australia. The platform is established and the customer base is growing, and under PE ownership the cost of running it gets looked at properly.

The opportunity

Technology and product report into one seat, so you would own engineering, product, and IT operations and security across a function of around thirty people, reporting to the chief executive with the investor close to the appointment.

Technology cost is treated as a commercial decision here, so the role needs commercial acumen and stakeholder management alongside the technical depth.

The business is fully remote and the role is open anywhere in Australia.

What you'll own

Technology and product together. Engineering, product, and IT operations and security all report in. The roadmap sits with a strong head of product who is good at it and it stays there, so what you would bring across both sides is direction and alignment.

Architecture. There is no architect sitting above the teams, so you would lead the architectural conversation yourself and keep the technical respect of a long-tenured engineering group while you do it.

The cost line. The job is to grow the platform while the cost line holds, and to know which signals tell you it is holding.

Delivery. Some teams are already weighted to new build and others are still splitting their time with BAU, and moving them across is part of the mandate.

Technical strategy. The business has not had one, so you would supply it and marry it up to the commercial plan.

Security and governance. You would carry information security in front of enterprise customers with an existing security function behind you, so what the role needs is credibility on the subject at executive level.

What you'll bring

• Commercial ownership of the technology cost line under private equity conditions.
• Technical strategy, and the commercial acumen to marry it up to the business plan.
• Web application experience at real scale, with enough depth to lead the architecture yourself.
• A track record of lifting delivery in a scaling product organisation.
• Practical judgement on AI, including the confidence to call out where it is oversold.
• Enough credibility on information security to sit in front of a risk-averse enterprise customer.
• The stakeholder management to earn a capable, long-tenured team on the way in.
• Someone who has chosen to run a remote organisation before.
• The executive title is not a gate here, and a first-time CTO with the rest of the profile is a realistic candidate.

What's on offer

• Technology and product in one seat, reporting to the chief executive.
• A private equity backed business that is growing, with real exposure to the investor.
• Fully remote, open anywhere in Australia.
• Salary dependent on experience.

Why this role

Technology and product under one person, in a growing private equity backed business, with the architecture in the same remit. Worth a conversation if you have owned the commercial side of a technology function and want the product half with it.