Chief of Staff to CTO

Description

Strong Private Equity Ownership

In December 2021, Genstar Capital invested in PA, along with a large rollover from Bregal Sagemount and the management team.

Genstar Capital is a leading private equity firm that has been actively investing in high quality companies for over 30 years. Based in San Francisco, Genstar has developed a strong market reputation of working in partnership with management teams and its network of strategic advisors to build industry-leading businesses while generating outsized returns. Genstar’s vision is to help build lasting, impactful companies that will continue to succeed well beyond their ownership.

Genstar currently has approximately $33 billion of assets under management and targets investments focused on targeted segments of the software, industrials, healthcare, and financial services industries. In 2020, Genstar was ranked 2nd worldwide in aggregate private equity fund performance (out of 529 PE firms) and ranked 3rd in 2019 (out of 497 PE firms) by HEC-Dow Jones. For more information, please visit

The Chief of Staff to the CTO serves as a strategic partner and operational leader for the Technology organization. This role is responsible for ensuring strategic priorities are effectively planned, funded, governed, and executed across all technology functions. Acting as an extension of the CTO, the Chief of Staff drives organizational alignment, execution discipline, financial performance, and cross-functional collaboration while enabling the CTO to focus on technology vision, innovation, and external leadership.

• Partner closely with the CTO to develop and execute the technology and AI strategy.
• Drive alignment across engineering, data, AI, product, and business teams.
• Translate strategic priorities into executable plans with clear milestones and accountability.
• Support long-term technology planning, organizational design, and investment decisions.
• Ensure technology initiatives align with broader corporate objectives and value creation goals.

• Act as an extension of the CTO, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into action across the organization.
• Manage executive communications, leadership team operating rhythms, and strategic planning processes.
• Prepare and facilitate leadership meetings, ensuring decisions are documented, communicated, and executed.
• Coordinate organizational priorities and resolve conflicts across teams to maintain focus on key objectives.
• Drive transparency, accountability, and alignment throughout the technology organization.

• Coordinate the enterprise technology and AI portfolio across the architecture organization, ensuring initiatives are sequenced, resourced, and governed against measurable business outcomes.
• Support the company's transformation toward agentic-driven workflows — partnering with technology and business leaders to identify, prioritize, and scale opportunities to embed AI, automation, and advanced analytics into how the business runs.
• Partner with the architecture organization on roadmap, evaluation gates, and rollout planning — the architects own the technical strategy in their domains; you own the operating cadence and cross-team alignment around it.
• Translate technical progress into business-facing milestones, and help business leaders surface use cases worth investing in.
• Stay current on emerging AI, data, and product technologies, competitive developments, and industry trends, and maintain enough fluency in the stack to pressure-test plans and represent the work to the executive team.

• Own the annual technology budgeting process, including operating expenses, capital expenditures, and strategic investment planning.
• Lead forecasting, variance analysis, and resource planning across engineering, data, AI, infrastructure, and security functions.
• Partner with Finance to develop business cases, ROI analyses, and investment recommendations for technology initiatives.
• Monitor technology spend and ensure alignment between strategic priorities, staffing plans, and financial commitments.
• Provide the CTO with regular reporting and insights on budget performance, resource utilization, and investment effectiveness.
• Drive resource allocation decisions to ensure investment is focused on the highest-value initiatives.
• Establish and run the operating cadence for the technology organization — quarterly planning, monthly business reviews, roadmap governance, and executive reporting — with clear inputs, owners, and decisions at each step.
• Own governance of the technology portfolio: prioritization, resourcing, dependencies, milestones, and the decision log that ties them together.
• Hold technology leaders and cross-functional partners accountable for commitments, surfacing slippage and resource constraints early enough to act on them.
• Serve as the central…