Head of CTO Office

At constellr, we're harnessing the power of space to solve one of Earth’s greatest challenges: climate resilience & security in a changing world. Our thermal satellite constellation delivers the most accurate land surface temperature data on the market, equipping commercial players, governments, defence agencies, and global institutions with the thermal intelligence they need to make strategic decisions– from national security and infrastructure to agriculture and climate resilience.

As a fast-scaling company with offices in Brussels, Freiburg, Munich, Washington and Toulouse, our multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and strategists is building the future of space-based Earth observation

Your Role

Earth observation is entering a new paradigm. For decades, satellite data meant looking into the past: scenes captured days or weeks ago, retrieved from an archive. We areturning it into a live signal:nearreal timeinsights derived from space-based sensorsthat arrive while it still matters,informingdecisions where seconds count.

As Head ofCTO Office you are a force multiplier andadvisor to the CTO. You own a portfolio of the tech organisation's strategic initiatives end to end: you take ambiguous,high prioritymandates and return finished outcomes.

You sit at the intersection of strategy, orgdesignand executivecommunication.

Yourepresentthe CTO in cross functional working sessions and steering meetings,prepare decisions, and track them until they are executed.

Own the operating cadence of the CTO organisation:

Mgmt Communication,leadership planning, meeting cadence, executivecalendarand decision tracking, automating wherever possible.

Key responsibilities

• Translate the CTO's strategic priorities intoobservableplans and track execution with the company success as top priority.
• Own a portfolio of strategic initiatives frominceptionto completion,maintaining clear ownership,visibility and momentum across all work streams.
• Partner with the CTO and her VPs on organisation plans: quarterly and annual strategy,staffing and development  org design and change management: reorg rollout, communication, offsite design.
• Condense and visualise:turn sprawling topics into onepagers, and complex structures into visuals that make decisions obvious. Board inputs,talks,exec material, leadership updates. Stresstestthe thinking before it leaves the office.
• Run the leadership cadence: agenda setting, decision tracking, follow through, escalation of blockers.
• Bring independent, unbiased insight from the ground: make connections across the organisation others do not see, and question whether initiatives still match the strategy.
• Your success is measured by the leverage you create. You help the CTO focus on the highest-impact decisions by bringing clarity,structure and momentum to the technology organisation

About you

• 3–6 years of experience in management consulting, Chief of Staff roles, strategic communications, or similar positions that required strong analytical thinking and the ability to quickly turn complex information into clear, actionable insights.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, e.g. gained through programs like TUM CDTM or similar
• Great at visual storytelling: you make an org chart, a roadmap or a decision readable in one look, and you enjoy building slides that people remember.
• Y ou keep track of many initiatives in parallel without losing detail, and everyone around you trusts your overview.
• Y ou turn twenty pages into one, a debate into three options, a month of work into five minutes of exec time.
• You have driven change in real organisations and know that change management is stakeholder and people work.
• You build trust quickly, exercise sound judgment, and are comfortable handling highly confidential topics…