Company Overview

Our client is a mission-driven nonprofit with significant influence over the healthcare provider ecosystem. The culture is stable, collaborative, and marked by long employee tenure. Over the past decade, leadership has made a sustained investment in data and technology, building a platform that now serves as a critical national resource. With a strong foundation in place, they are seeking a Chief Technology Officer to help shape what comes next.

Position Overview

This is not a turnaround or a build-from-scratch mandate. The infrastructure is solid, the team is experienced, and the platform is already serving a national audience. What this moment calls for is a senior technology and product leader who can look at a strong foundation and chart where it goes from here. The incoming CTO will own the full technology and data function, leading three experienced directors spanning engineering and QA, infrastructure and security, and business intelligence. The role carries meaningful executive visibility, operating as a peer to organizational leadership and representing technology strategy at the board level. For a mission-driven technology leader ready to trade commercial scale for genuine impact, this is a rare opportunity to shape something that matters in an environment where the groundwork is already laid and the moment is right.

Position Responsibilities

Strategy and Product Leadership

• Define and drive a forward-looking product strategy for both internal systems and outward-facing data platforms
• Help shape practitioner-facing tools that allow users to navigate their learning, credentialing, and compliance data more intuitively
• Translate organizational priorities into a clear technology roadmap and communicate it at the executive and board level
• Identify opportunities to expand data services and platform capabilities in alignment with mission and fee-for-service constraints
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, and determine how they can be integrated thoughtfully into existing infrastructure

Team Leadership and Organizational Development

• Lead a team of three experienced directors spanning engineering and QA, infrastructure and security, and business intelligence
• Set strategic direction while empowering the director layer to own execution
• Build relationships across all staff, integrating the technology function into the broader organizational culture
• Develop team capability and succession depth over time

Data Platform Stewardship

• Oversee the continued evolution of a proprietary data platform serving as a national resource within the healthcare education ecosystem
• Champion data quality, integrity, and accessibility for both internal collaborators and external partners
• Guide the organization’s approach to responsible data use in a regulated, compliance-conscious environment
• Facilitate robust data exchange with key ecosystem partners without disrupting existing services

Executive Partnership

• Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and broader leadership team on all matters of technology and data
• Represent the technology function in organizational planning, budgeting, and governance conversations
• Bring an external perspective that challenges assumptions and elevates the organization’s ambitions for its platform

Position Qualifications

Required

• A track record of translating organizational vision into technology strategy, with evidence of measurable outcomes and platform impact
• 10 or more years of progressive technology leadership, with at least 5 years in a senior role leading through a director or manager layer
• Fluency in modern data infrastructure, cloud systems, and security and compliance frameworks including SOC 2 and GDPR
• Demonstrated ability to set strategic direction while empowering an execution team to deliver
• Genuine alignment with mission-driven work and a nonprofit operating model; energized by impact and outcomes, not purely commercial scale
• Comfort navigating complex, regulated environments and engaging credibly with specialized stakeholders

Preferred

• Background in ed-tech, healthcare, professional credentialing, legal tech, financial services, or other regulatory-adjacent sectors
• Prior exposure to product strategy or platform thinking, whether through a product-to-technical path or a technology role with strong product instincts
• Familiarity with AI and automation trends and the judgment to apply them appropriately in a sensitive, compliance-conscious environment

If you are ready to bring your technology leadership to work that matters and take ownership of a platform poised for its next evolution, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills, and qualifications match our client’s requirements.

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