Chief Technology Officer (Remote)

Title: Chief Technology Officer

Department: Technology

Reporting to: Chief Business Officer

Location: USA - Remote

Compensation: $290K - $320K USD

 

Who We Are: 

World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise that supports the educational, economic, and social inclusion of immigrants, refugees, and international students. For 50 years, WES has set the standard for international academic credential evaluation, supporting millions of people as they seek to achieve their academic and professional goals. Through decades of experience as a leader in global education, WES has developed a wide range of tools to pursue social impact at scale. From evaluating academic credentials to shaping policy, designing programs, and providing philanthropic funding, we partner with a diverse set of organizations, leaders, and networks to uplift individuals and drive systems change. Together with its partners, WES enables people to learn, work, and thrive in new places. For more information about WES, please visit our website at www.WES.org.    

 

About The Opportunity: 

WES is seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to provide technical and strategic leadership for the Technology organization which operates as a distributed team across the US, Canada and India. The CTO is responsible for defining and delivering the technology strategy that aligns with organizational goals and strategic ambitions, supporting current operations and growth plans. The CTO accelerates digital innovation, including driving the implementation of digital transformation programs.

Reporting to the Chief Business Officer (CBO), the CTO sets the enterprise technology vision and drives execution—balancing organizational priorities, risk, budget, and emerging technology trends to deliver secure, scalable, effective, and strategically focused technology infrastructure and capabilities.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and inspire a talented technology team at a mission driven social enterprise, shaping WES’s technological future and partnering across the organization to drive digital transformation.

Success in this role looks like (6–12 months):

• A pragmatic 12–24-month technology roadmap is established and aligned to organizational priorities, with clear sequencing, ownership, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Core platforms, systems and infrastructure meet defined reliability and performance targets, with improved incident response and service delivery practices.
• Technology and Product partnership models are strengthened, enabling more effective prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and delivery of business-critical activities.
• Security, risk, and audit readiness are strengthened through documented controls, regular testing, and an actionable remediation plan.
• A scalable operating model is in place (roles, governance, vendor management, and delivery rhythms) and the Technology team is engaged and developing.
• Key cross-functional initiatives show measurable progress (e.g., modernization, automation, analytics enablement) with stakeholder confidence and adoption.

 

What You'll Do:

Technology Strategy & Vision

• Lead the development and execution of WES’s technology strategy and operating model in alignment with organizational priorities and 3-year strategic plan, partnering closely with the Product department and leadership across WES to deliver scalable, reliable and business-aligned technology capabilities.
• Partner with the executive team to define and advance WES’s AI vision, strategy and priorities in support of opportunities to create organizational value, accelerate innovation, and strengthen mission impact.
• Lead the development of a responsible AI operating model, including governance, risk management, compliance, security, privacy, and ethical oversight to enable trusted and scalable adoption.
• Define and evolve a scalable, interoperable enterprise technology ecosystems across commercial, and enterprise platforms.
• Drive simplification and rationalization of systems, workflows, integrations, and vendor footprint to reduce operational complexity and improve scalability.
• Identify and evaluate the latest technologies, assessing their potential for strategic advantage and organizational impact.
• Define and execute clear initiatives, programs, and priorities tailored to the organization’s strategic objectives and mindful of business needs, growth ambitions, and requirements related to scale and opera