Mission

Why this role exists

Responsibilities

Key performance indicators

• What does success look like for a CTO role?
  • Leverage through “techniques” with enough depth to get leverage from people.
  • Example: Elon Musk, hopping around in teams, going deep, knowing how everything fits together, but still aligning people.
  • Lagging indicators of success:
    1. If there is a technical problem, we can solve it: be the main driving force in the solution (technically or through people).
    2. Where is the bottleneck in the org when we don’t succeed? It’s not in engineering.
    3. Strong support from Engineering with the other functions.

Interaction with other roles

vs. VP of Engineering

https://gemini.google.com/share/36b149d715e4

Benchmarks

• What’s a CTO? From https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897