Chief Technology Officer

Think Grow; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Think & Grow is a Global Growth Advisory. This newly created role gives you end-to-end ownership of technology, with product sitting in your remit CTPO.

You'll report to the founder, lead four direct reports and, through them, a 30+ strong engineering and product team, with real budget authority to shape the technology function. You will own engineering, architecture, data and systems, drive platform modernization, and define a roadmap across three business units, including a zero-revenue

Qualifications

• A senior engineering and technology leader with deep technical credibility and a genuine product lens.
• Experience leading engineering across multiple squads or business units.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering, architecture, data and systems across the business, alongside the product function.
• Lead 30+ engineers and product people, with four direct reports and budget authority to shape the tech function.
• Define and execute platform modernization, architecture decisions and vendor management to support rapid growth.

Job description

Think & Grow is a Global Growth Advisory. For founders hitting the ceiling on growth, we deliver the entire Growth Stack: strategy, technology, and talent, under one roof, with one team, so they scale faster with fewer missteps. Our people are operators and practitioners, not career consultants: we've built, scaled and operated inside companies, and we stay in the room until the work is done.

Own the technology. Build the platform. Report to the founder. Build what's next!

Our client is a privately held, founder-led, technology-enabled business headquartered in Sydney. It has several hundred people across multiple regions, a loyal customer base and real momentum. After years of rapid growth, the business is at a genuine inflection point, with an ambitious multi-year plan to scale revenue many times over across three business units.

This is a newly created role, be the first person to hold full, end-to-end ownership of technology, with product sitting inside your remit CTPO. This is not a maintenance role. It's a build role, with the mandate and autonomy to match.

The Opportunity

Reporting directly to the Founder & CEO, you'll own engineering, architecture, data and systems, alongside the product function. You'll lead four direct reports and, through them, a team of 30+ engineers and product people. You'll have direct founder access, real budget authority and the freedom to assess what exists, decide what needs to change and in what order, and build the technology function the business needs for its next phase.

What You'll Own

• A full, clear-eyed assessment of the technology stack, identifying the technical debt limiting the business and setting the remediation roadmap
• Architecture and platform strategy across a mixed in-house and third‑party estate, including build, buy and consolidate decisions
• A platform that scales, built to support a business many times its current size
• Data and systems foundations that give leadership reliable, real‑time visibility

Engineering Delivery & Velocity

• Engineering velocity as a measurable metric, with clear targets and teams held to them
• Delivery standards, sprint cadences and platform health metrics that leadership can see and trust
• Removing structural blockers to delivery across process, tooling, dependencies and team
• A structured intake and prioritisation model that protects engineering from ad‑hoc requests across the business

Product

• Owning the product roadmap across three business units: a core platform that drives the business today, an adjacent business line, and a new vertical being built from zero
• Making sure the technology, not just great service, is what keeps customers loyal
• Building the technology and product foundation for the new vertical, from zero revenue today to a material revenue line within two to three years

Who You Are

• A senior engineering and technology leader with deep technical credibility / genuine product lens
• Experienced leading engineering across multiple squads or business units at the same time
• Able to walk into a complex, imperfect technology ecosystem, see clearly what's broken, and build a remediation roadmap including headcount recommendations
• Hands‑on experience with platform modernisation, architecture decisions and managing third‑party technology vendors
• A strong stakeholder operator who can protect engineering focus while keeping the wider business moving
• Background in fast‑paced, high‑volume, customer‑facing digital platforms where performance and reliability matter
• A track record inside a scale‑up moving through a significant revenue inflection, not just steady‑state growth
• Comfortable with ambiguity and energised by building structure where none exists yet

If you want a role where the scope is real, the impact is visible, and the founder is in the room with you, not above you, this is worth a confidential conversation.