Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Job Description

What You'll Do

Define the Technology Vision & Strategy

• Define and own Sana Commerce's long-term Technology vision, ensuring our platform supports the company's growth ambitions and positions us as the leading B2B eCommerce platform.
• Build a technology roadmap that balances innovation, platform scalability, operational excellence, security, and long-term sustainability.
• Inspire the organization with a clear technology vision and ensure engineering strategy supports business and product objectives.
• Define a long-term technology strategy that supports the continued evolution of our platform from a modern SaaS application into a highly scalable, cloud-native architecture.
• Partner closely with Product leadership to ensure technology investments support both immediate customer value and long-term platform evolution.

Elevate Engineering & Technology Performance

• Provide strategic leadership to the global Engineering and IT organizations.
• Ensure engineering execution is reliable, scalable, predictable, and aligned with business and product priorities.
• Champion technical excellence through modern software development practices, architectural discipline, cloud transformation, security, and platform modernization.
• Leverage AI and automation to improve software development, testing, quality assurance, and overall engineering effectiveness.
• Reduce technical complexity through Eliminate, Standardize, and Automate principles while continuously improving engineering efficiency.

Deliver a World-Class Platform

• Own the overall health and technical lifecycle of our SaaS platform, including performance, reliability, quality, security, scalability, and resilience.
• Drive platform improvements that increase developer productivity, engineering velocity, software quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure strong cross-functional alignment on release planning, technical priorities, resource allocation, and execution.
• Build a technology organization capable of supporting long-term global growth.

Drive Innovation

• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies that strengthen Sana Commerce's competitive position.
• Lead the adoption of AI, automation, and modern engineering practices to improve both product capabilities and engineering productivity.
• Create an environment where innovation is encouraged while maintaining operational excellence and platform stability.

Build & Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

• Develop and strengthen the global Engineering leadership team.
• Build our Engineering hub in Egypt as a strategic redundancy to our engineering organization in Ukraine.
• Build succession depth, leadership capability, and attract exceptional engineering talent.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement across Engineering and Technology.

Qualifications

Who You Are

You are a visionary technology leader who combines strategic thinking with operational excellence and knows how to scale engineering organizations in fast-growing SaaS businesses.

You bring:

• 10+ years of senior technology leadership experience, including experience leading large Engineering organizations in fast-growing SaaS businesses, ideally within B2B Software or eCommerce.
• Experience scaling globally distributed Engineering organizations across multiple countries and cultures, including offshore engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in cloud architecture, software engineering, platform modernization, distributed systems, engineering execution, and SaaS technology.
• Experience leading large international engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth and organizational transformation.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience balancing technology investments, engineering efficiency, platform costs, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering cultures and developing senior technology leaders.
• A data-driven mindset combined with strong strategic judgement.
• Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills.

A hands-on, results-oriented leadership style—you create momentum, remove obstacles, and enable teams to succeed.

Additional Information

Why This Role Matters

• As Chief Technology Officer, you will shape the technology foundation that powers Sana Commerce's future.
• You will lead one of the company's most critical functions, define our long-term technology strategy, build a world-class engineering organization, and ensure our platform continues to scale securely and reliably as we grow globally.
• As a member of the Executive Team, you will influence the long-term direction of the business while building the technology capabilities that will enable Sana Commerce to achieve its ambition of becoming the market leader by 2028.
• Your leadership will directly determine how effectively we innovate, scale, and deliver technology that creates lasting value for our customers.

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