Vice President, Head of Technology

About us:

Chief is a private network of the most powerful women executives in business. Our mission is to maximize the leadership impact of our members. Our network represents more than 10,000 companies including 77% of the Fortune 100, and nearly 40% of our members are in the C-Suite. Chief has been recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Membership to Chief provides access to a vetted community of senior women executives and valuable insights that shape their leadership. The experience is digital and in-person, allowing members to build connections, engage in compelling discussions, and access resources in ways that are most meaningful to them. Our offerings range from executive coaching and executive education to thoughtful in-person and virtual programming and events that guide leaders through the most pressing topics in business. We have members across the United States with clubhouse locations in NYC, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

Founded in 2019, Chief is backed by renowned investors including CapitalG, General Catalyst, Inspired Capital, and Primary Ventures.

Our network brings women in leadership together to share their ideas, insight, and influence, and the power of what we’re doing is felt by every member of our team. Our workplace is built on being real and respectful. We help grow careers, maintain our team’s wellbeing, and give everyone a seat at the table. We build teams where diverse voices, identities, perspectives, and experiences are represented and celebrated. Read more about working at Chief: https://chief.com/careers.

About the Role

We are seeking a Vice President, Head of Technology to lead our engineering and product organizations and steward a mature but evolving platform at a critical stage of growth. As a 7-year-old startup, we are past “greenfield” but not finished. We need a leader that has strong technical and strategic thinking skills to help lead the organization to build for today with an eye for the future.

This leader will own our technical and product vision, oversee a team of full-stack engineers and product team, and partner closely with leadership to deliver scalable, intelligent, and member-centric experiences. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in ambiguity, balancing long-term architecture with near-term execution, and leveraging existing systems (including Salesforce and Braze) rather than defaulting to rebuilds.

What You’ll Do

Technology Strategy & Engineering Leadership

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap, balancing scalability, reliability, and delivery velocity.

• Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers (frontend, backend and mobile), fostering a culture of accountability and thoughtful decision-making

• Evaluate existing systems with a pragmatic lens—clearly identifying what is worth fixing, refactoring, or rebuilding vs. what should be maintained.

• Architect and maintain a microservices-based platform, ensuring services are well-scoped, resilient, and observable.

• Establish best practices for engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and incident response without introducing unnecessary processes.

• Provide executive oversight of internal IT infrastructure and operations, including employee laptops, email systems, identity and access management, security tooling, and core SaaS applications.

• Manage and support the individual responsible for day-to-day IT operations, ensuring clear priorities, strong service levels, and appropriate security and compliance standards.

• Establish lightweight, scalable processes for onboarding/offboarding, device management, access controls, and vendor management.

• Establish clear privacy and security protocols throughout the organization and ensuring products and new features meet latest security guidelines.

AI & Platform Innovation

• Lead the application of AI and machine learning to meaningfully improve our social/network experience (e.g., personalization, recommendations, matchmaking, insights, moderation).

• Drive responsible experimentation with AI tools to improve both member experience and internal efficiency.

• Translate emerging AI capabilities into practical, high-impact product features.

Product Leadership

• Own the product and design organization and function, ensuring tight alignment between product strategy, engineering execution, and business goals.

• Partner with stakeholders