Contract CTO: Lead People, Drive Cross-Functional Growth

Energy Innovation Corp; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 231,000 - 463,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Mentorship from senior leaders

Job summary

InnovateCore Corp is seeking a CTO for a contract role where leadership meets hard problems in Wilmington, NC.

You will own outcomes, sharpen people management, drive cross‑functional collaboration, and hand off work clearly to the team, with a track record of resilience.

This ongoing search rewards learning, equity participation, and mentorship from accomplished leaders as you build strong cross‑department relationships and scale the business.

Qualifications

• A knack for People Management that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• A collaborator who makes the c-level review feel less like an exam
• Working familiarity with contract schedules and team norms at InnovateCore Corp
• Practical Stakeholder Management skills sharpened in a contract setting
• Proven Resilience results, ideally seasoned in Wilmington, NC
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain

Responsibilities

• Keep InnovateCore Corp's People Management pipeline humming without constant hand-holding
• Steer InnovateCore Corp's Cross-Functional Collaboration roadmap with both nerve and humility
• Hand off People Management work clean enough that nobody has to ask twice
• Show up for the unglamorous general maintenance nobody volunteers for
• Build and sustain strong working relationships across departments

Skills

People Management

Stakeholder Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Written Communication

Contract Operations

Resilience

Job description

InnovateCore Corp is seeking a CTO for a contract role where leadership meets hard problems in Wilmington, NC.

You will own outcomes, sharpen people management, drive cross‑functional collaboration, and hand off work clearly to the team, with a track record of resilience.

This ongoing search rewards learning, equity participation, and mentorship from accomplished leaders as you build strong cross‑department relationships and scale the business.