Chief Product & Tech Officer - Lead SaaS Growth

TheLinkU, LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

TheLinkU, LLC in Houston, TX is seeking a hands-on Chief Product & Technology Officer to lead LinkSuite's engineering, architecture, and platform delivery. You will work closely with the CEO and Director of Product to convert business priorities into a practical product and technical roadmap, while managing a lean offshore team and a production SaaS platform built on PHP/Laravel and AWS.

This role requires a decade of technology leadership, deep SaaS experience, and strong communication to align

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technology experience with at least 5 years in senior engineering or technology leadership.
• Proven experience owning and evolving the architecture of a production SaaS platform with real customers.
• Strong technical depth and the ability to work credibly with engineers on architecture, code quality, system design, reliability, and technical trade-offs.
• Experience leading remote or offshore engineering teams and growing engineering organizations.
• Experience with cloud-based SaaS infrastructure, preferably AWS, including deployment, security, monitoring, and scalability.
• Experience with payments, financial transactions, sensitive data, or other high-reliability production workflows.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical executives, product leaders, customers, and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team while setting clear standards for quality, accountability, delivery, and technical culture.
• Stay closely engaged with day-to-day engineering execution, including developer discussions, technical blockers, architecture and code decisions, delivery progress, and production issues.
• Own LinkSuite’s technical architecture and engineering standards, including scalability, AWS infrastructure, security, reliability, technical debt, code quality, and deployment practices.
• Manage and develop our offshore engineering team effectively, maintaining strong communication, velocity, quality, and alignment across time zones.
• Partner closely with the Director of Product to translate business requirements into technically sound solutions and maintain a practical product and engineering roadmap.
• Champion effective Agile and Scrum practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, retrospectives, and consistent delivery of shippable software.
• Own engineering delivery and platform operations, including release quality, monitoring, uptime, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Own the company’s technical security posture and ensure the platform can meet the security and technology expectations of university and enterprise partners.
• Guide the technical strategy for payments, financial workflows, APIs, third-party integrations, and technology vendors, including build-versus-buy decisions.
• Work with the CEO on the 1-to-3-year technical vision and the engineering resources, architecture, and investments needed to support company growth.
• Evaluate relevant opportunities in AI, automation, integrations, and emerging technologies that can improve the product or internal operations.
• Represent TheLinkU credibly in customer, university, partner, and vendor conversations when technical leadership is needed.

Skills

Technical leadership

SaaS architecture

AWS

Payments expertise

Remote team leadership

Cloud security

Architectural decision-making

Tools

PHP/Laravel

AWS (EC2/S3)

CI/CD pipelines

APIs

Job description

TheLinkU, LLC in Houston, TX is seeking a hands-on Chief Product & Technology Officer to lead LinkSuite's engineering, architecture, and platform delivery. You will work closely with the CEO and Director of Product to convert business priorities into a practical product and technical roadmap, while managing a lean offshore team and a production SaaS platform built on PHP/Laravel and AWS.

This role requires a decade of technology leadership, deep SaaS experience, and strong communication to align