Strategic CTO — Growth‑Driven Tech Leader

Pizza Hut; Schaumburg (IL); On-site; USD 246,000 - 524,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth track

Hands-on mentorship

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Pizza Hut is seeking an impact-driven CTO to make strategic planning look easy and resilience obvious. The role promises a substantial compensation range and a clear growth track within a supportive team environment in Illinois.

You will own critical strategic initiatives, guide cross-functional collaboration, and mentor upcoming leaders while continuously surfacing risks with proposed fixes. This position emphasizes customer-centric thinking and hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener.
• Fluency in Growth Mindset earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial.
• Around 17+ years of hands-on experience in a general role.
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself.
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision.
• A point of view, held loosely and defended well.
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking.

Responsibilities

• Keep a steady hand on Pizza Hut accounts when volume spikes.
• Drive measurable improvements within your area of responsibility.
• Trim Self-Motivation processes that have quietly outlived their purpose.
• Coach newer c-level teammates through their first messy general project.
• Surface risks early, loudly, and with a proposed fix attached.

Skills

Teachability

Growth mindset

17+ years experience

Risk surfacing

Storytelling with data

Point of view

Curiosity to read docs

Job description

Pizza Hut is seeking an impact-driven CTO to make strategic planning look easy and resilience obvious. The role promises a substantial compensation range and a clear growth track within a supportive team environment in Illinois.

You will own critical strategic initiatives, guide cross-functional collaboration, and mentor upcoming leaders while continuously surfacing risks with proposed fixes. This position emphasizes customer-centric thinking and hands-on leadership.