Chief of Staff (Engineering)

Dream Big.  Go Beyond. Be Unstoppable.
 

About Us

Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury, payments, risk management and working capital solutions. We serve 3,000+ customers worldwide, managing $15 trillion in payments annually and helping businesses optimize liquidity performance across the enterprise. 

We're on a mission to become the most sought-after cloud technology company globally. We think big, innovate relentlessly, and challenge the status quo every day. If you are a problem-solver who’s ready to push boundaries and achieve more than you thought possible-you'll find an exceptional career within an extraordinary business. 

Location: Warsaw - Hybrid 2 days per week

Type of contract: UoP

As the global leader in treasury and finance solutions, we're transforming our engineering organisation to drive the next phase of growth.  As the CoS to the CTO you'll be a strategic thought partner, a change agent, and an execution leader who shapes how Kyriba builds products, serves customers, and competes in the market. You'll have the CTO's proxy authority to drive decisions, lead cross-organisational initiatives, and influence the trajectory of an engineering organisation that's building the future of treasury and finance technology.

This role is for someone who wants to:

• Shape the strategy and operations of an engineering organisation at a critical growth inflection point

• Work directly with executive leadership on the most important, complex challenges facing the company

• Build and scale organisational capabilities that become competitive advantages

• Transition from execution to strategy to broader organisational impact

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Thought Partnership, Planning & Execution:

• Serve as daily thought partner on the most important, complex strategic decisions, challenging assumptions, pressure test strategies, and provide objective perspective

• Synthesize complex information from across the organization into clear, actionable insights

• Help the CTO think through options, trade-offs, and implications before major decisions

• Facilitate quarterly OKR planning and reviews across the engineering organisation

• Connect dots across the organisation to identify gaps, synergies, and strategic opportunities

Executive Communication:

• Prepare Board of Directors presentations on engineering strategy, portfolio performance, and organisational health

• Draft strategic memos, executive summaries, and decision documents for CEO and the executive team

CTO Effectiveness & Leverage:

• Optimize CTO's time allocation toward highest-value activities: strategy, vision, customers, external relationships

• Shield the CTO from operational noise by resolving issues proactively before they escalate

• Ensure the CTO is prepared and effective in every critical meeting and engagement

Organisational Problem-Solving & Firefighting:

When critical issues arise, you dive deep and drive resolution:

• Coordinate response to major customer escalations requiring engineering intervention

• Act as "chief problem solver" for high-priority, high-complexity issues that don't fit neatly into anyone's role

• Build organisational muscle memory by documenting learnings and building playbooks

Engineering Leadership Team Management:

The Engineering Leadership Team (CTO + direct reports) is the engine of engineering strategy and execution. You make it effective:

• Plan and facilitate SLT meetings - Set agendas aligned to strategic priorities, prepare pre-reads, ensure meetings have clear outcomes. Build SLT effectiveness - Continuously improve how leadership team operates (decision-making, communication, conflict resolution)

• Drive meeting effectiveness - Ensure decisions get made, actions are tracked, commitments are honored

• Manage SLT off-sites - Design and facilitate quarterly strategic off-sites that drive alignment and breakthrough thinking

Support CTO in strategic resource allocation:

• Lead annual engineering budget planning - build bottoms-up budget, justify investments, align with Finance

• Identify opportunities to optimise cost structure while maintaining or improving effectiveness

Our Values Guide Everything We Do

• Think Big & Constantly Innovate: We have the confidence to think big, embrace change, challenge the status quo, and continuously evolve - incorporating new technologies and driving industry progress. 

• Put our Customers’ Outcomes First: We are passionate about delivering the highest value for our customers and supporting them with end-to-end care throughout their journey with us. 

• Act with Integrity: Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We take personal responsibility for our actions, own our decisions, and honour each other’s contributions. We empower each other through honesty, respect, trust and transparency. 

• Work as One Team: We are driven by our common goals and share in each other’s successes and failures, learning and working together as a team where everyone can bring their best selves. 

• Strive for Excellence while Having Fun: We enjoy tackling new challenges together, and revel in continuous improvement as we deliver, with ultimate professionalism, the very best for our customers, while exceeding our own expectations.

At Kyriba we value pay transparency and fairness. 

For new hires, the annual base salary range for this role is zł351,200.00 - zł444,200.00 based on a full-time schedule. Salary can progress beyond this range through sustained performance and demonstrated success in the role. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for variable compensation (eg. performance bonus or commission-based plan) and a long-term incentive. The final package will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and qualifications.

Kyriba also offers a comprehensive compensation package, including a range of health, welfare and wellbeing benefits designed to support both your professional and personal life. 

Kyriba believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship, and genetic information. 

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