Chief Product & Technology Officer

Role overview

This is a senior executive position responsible for translating a high-level product vision into a sequenced roadmap and leading the teams that build and ship the products. The role partners directly with a technical co-founder who owns industry subject-matter expertise and long-term product direction, while the executive serves as the operating partner accountable for execution across product and engineering. The scope covers a roughly 17-person product and engineering organization within a profitable, mission-driven software company helping renewable power developers identify the lowest-cost points to connect to the electrical grid.

Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end delivery and execution as the single point of accountability for weekly, quarterly, and annual product and engineering goals - Partner with the founding executive on product vision and roadmap, and ensure day-to-day product decisions grow revenue and improve retention - Lead and develop the VP of Software Engineering, VP of Transmission Planning, and Product Managers, including performance management and cross-functional alignment - Build the operating systems, processes, and cadences that make product delivery predictable and efficient as the company scales - Stay hands-on with the work, rolling up sleeves in a small organization while maintaining executive oversight - Learn and internalize a highly technical, niche domain quickly enough to make credible product calls

Requirements

- Demonstrated success leading one or more product organizations, with former reports describing the candidate as a top-tier leader - Track record of shipping products that delivered material customer value, such as taking a product from zero to tens of millions in revenue, lifting retention significantly, or scaling from mid-eight-figure to higher revenue - Willingness to be a hands-on operator in a lean company rather than a purely strategic executive - Ability and interest in becoming fluent in a complex technical area - Mission-driven orientation with low ego, strong communication skills, and a collaborative approach to partnering with founders

Nice to have

- Experience as a VP of Product, CPO, or GM at a technical B2B SaaS company - Background running a complex technical product line end to end - Prior founder experience that scaled into executive leadership - Familiarity with grid infrastructure, energy, utilities, transmission planning, interconnection, power markets, or climate sectors