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Altana
Brooklyn, United States19 days ago
235,000 – 285,000 USD
per year
Grade
Senior
Experience
from 10 years
Work format
Hybrid
English level
C1, advanced
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Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
This role is a force multiplier for the CTO and the Product, Engineering, and Implementation leadership team. You operate as an extension of the CTO, absorbing context across every workstream, making real prioritization calls, wielding real authority, and running the operating system of a technical org that ships to both commercial and government customers around the world.
Beyond execution, you hold the business of the Product/Eng org: its operating cadence, its budget, and its people planning, in partnership with Finance and the People team. You also build and lead the org’s Program Management Office: a team of technical program managers who run the portfolio of cross-functional programs and customer deliveries.
This is a position of operational ownership and trusted judgment; ensuring the technical functions are aligned with Altana’s business strategy and corporate governance. Where the role touches comp, leveling, org design, and budget, you apply the frameworks the People CoE and Finance own. You are the CTO's embedded counterpart to those functions, not a parallel authority.
Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are, what we stand for, and how we behave. They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire, design, build, and connect with each other and our customers.
At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability.
In this role, you will own:
~10 years in product management, technical program or portfolio management, strategy, business operations, or a role with genuine operational ownership — not coordination
A record of holding multiple parallel workstreams, competing stakeholders, and ambiguous ownership, and keeping all of it moving
Experience building or running a PMO or program portfolio. You’ve designed intake, prioritization, and delivery-tracking processes that teams use rather than work around
Experience managing and growing a team, ideally program or project managers. You’ve hired, coached, and given hard feedback, and built a function others want to join
Enough technical fluency to hold a real conversation with a platform engineer — APIs, infrastructure, deployment, architecture at a conceptual level — and to read a design doc and push on it. Not a coder
Financial and operational fluency: managing a budget, speaking to variance, tackling headcount and spend trade-offs
Comfort with org design and workforce planning as a partner to a People function — fluent enough to be a real thought partner, without running it
Influence beyond your own team: moving engineers, PMs, and GTM leads through trust, framing, and timing, not by invoking the CTO's name
Extreme organizational precision — systems legible to others, clean first drafts, async updates that need minimal editing
Experience building production systems with LLMs, agents, evals, or retrieval
Experience using engineering metrics such as DORA or SPACE to improve how a team works
Background in trade, supply chain, compliance, or working with government customers
Nice to have, but not required
This role is based in Brooklyn, NY, USA with hybrid work flexibility and candidates must be within commuting distance from our Williamsburg, Brooklyn office.
$235,000-$285,000
The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors, including, but not limited to, work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally, Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
This role is a force multiplier for the CTO and the Product, Engineering, and Implementation leadership team. You operate as an extension of the CTO, absorbing context across every workstream, making real prioritization calls, wielding real authority, and running the operating system of a technical org that ships to both commercial and government customers around the world.
Beyond execution, you hold the business of the Product/Eng org: its operating cadence, its budget, and its people planning, in partnership with Finance and the People team. You also build and lead the org’s Program Management Office: a team of technical program managers who run the portfolio of cross-functional programs and customer deliveries.
This is a position of operational ownership and trusted judgment; ensuring the technical functions are aligned with Altana’s business strategy and corporate governance. Where the role touches comp, leveling, org design, and budget, you apply the frameworks the People CoE and Finance own. You are the CTO's embedded counterpart to those functions, not a parallel authority.
In this role, you will own:
Nice to have, but not required
This role is based in Brooklyn, NY, USA with hybrid work flexibility and candidates must be within commuting distance from our Williamsburg, Brooklyn office.
$235,000-$285,000
The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors, including, but not limited to, work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally, Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are, what we stand for, and how we behave. They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire, design, build, and connect with each other and our customers.
At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.
Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.
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