Chief Product & Technology Officer
As a visionary leader, you'll lead a high-impact team to shape strategy, inspire innovation, and build a world-class product that will redefine what's possible in learning and technology.
Join the ACI Learning Adventure!
ACI Learning is a leading provider of audit, cybersecurity and IT training solutions, empowering individuals and organizations worldwide to improve their technical capabilities and their cybersecurity with compelling and comprehensive training. We are extending our leadership position to offer a complete SaaS Learning Platform that goes beyond audit, cyber and IT training to provide organizational and individual knowledge assessment, analytics and training delivery with integrated AI to understand capabilities and skill gaps for organizations.
We are seeking a Chief Product & Technology Officer, a senior leader who is responsible for designing our platform, product and technical strategy and building a world-class engineering team to deliver high-quality products that customers love. You’ll get to work with passionate teams that educate and entertain with compelling content and world-class video production facilities. And lead teams that drive what’s possible in real world labs, assessment technology and SaaS learning delivery platforms.
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and part of the company’s Executive Leadership Team, you will work on all aspects of our Product and Technical efforts — strategic planning, roadmap creation, engineering processes and developing a world-class engineering team. This is a critical role for ACI Learning’s growth – you get to create and execute.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect ACI Learning’s product and technical strategy including multi-release roadmaps, feature design and engineering delivery to ensure it aligns with ACI’s customer focus and business goals. You will also be responsible for selecting the technologies we use to accomplish these goals.
- Build a world-class and highly accountable product team that is extremely capable of shipping high-quality products customers love on time. You’ll do this through a combination of coaching, hiring, culture and a focus on product team productivity.
- Identify and implement best practices, processes, and tools to streamline product development, increase productivity, and enhance product execution.
- Drive data-driven decision making by establishing and maintaining robust engineering analytics and reporting frameworks, providing insights to continually optimize product team performance and ROI.
- Build systems to continually Integrate customer feedback and product usage analytics to enable data-driven decision making for our product investments.
- Partner with Marketing and Sales to ensure they understand our product roadmaps so they can do an amazing job of taking them to market.
- Manage relationships with external engineering service agencies, ensuring effective and efficient support and cost management.
- Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and dynamic dashboards to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of marketing programs and campaigns.
What’ll You need (Requirements)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
- Hands-on experience shipping multiple versions of enterprise SaaS products for business customers.
- Hands-on experience writing software code is strongly preferred.
- 15+ years of experience in software development or a related field, with a substantial portion in a leadership or managerial role.
- Experience managing managers of teams in multiple product disciplines including software development, dev ops, product management and QA engineering is required.
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, goal setting, and policy implementation within a software development environment.
- Experience in effectively managing relationships with external development agencies to integrate their work with the Product Team is required.
Strong candidates will also possess
- An advanced degree (e.g., MBA or Master's in a technical field) is preferred.
- Experience developing on-demand educational content, assessments and leading global video production for technical customers is a plus.
- Experience in doing acquisition technology diligence and integration is a significant plus.
- Experience in developing global ecommerce solutions for businesses and consumers is a plus.
What will make you successful
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, goal setting, and policy implementation within a software development environment.
- Extensive knowledge of modern software engineering principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them into actionable plans.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building collaborative relationships across various departments and with external partners.
- Strong external customer focus with passion for enabling customer experiences and satisfaction.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with the ability to evaluate complex business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Why ACI Learning is Your Next Big Move:
We are committed to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and strive to ensure that it is interwoven into the fabric of our organization. We support and nourish an inclusive and welcoming environment for employees from diverse backgrounds.
At ACI Learning, we offer a competitive, experience-driven salary range that aligns with your qualifications and contributions. To that end, the posted salary range reflects our most reasonable assumption of pay for this position at the time of posting
- Department
- Executive
- Locations
- Remote - USA
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Yearly salary
- 210,000 - 250,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment level
- Executive / Senior Level
- Employment Type
- Full-Time
- FLSA Status
- Exempt
Remote - USA
Culture and Values
At ACI Learning, we train leaders in Cybersecurity, Audit, and Information Technology. We believe that training is not a transaction, but an ongoing essential of life-long learning and career growth. Our name may seem new, but we've been at it for over 40 years.
Authentic — We Keep It Real.
We are respectful and transparent in the way we treat everyone. We say what we mean and bring our unique personalities into everything we do.
Accountable — We Take Ownership
We accept responsibility for our decisions and actions. We learn from our mistakes and improve. We are reliable and follow through. We act like business owners.
Dedicated — We Put the Customer First
We provide above-and-beyond service and support to our clients. We continually strive to uphold and improve our reputation for excellence.
Innovative — We Challenge the Status Quo... and Ourselves
We pride ourselves in finding creative solutions to challenges. We trust our instincts and express our opinions openly.
About ACI Learning
At ACI Learning, we believe that anything worth doing is worth leading the way—with innovation, exceptional experiences, and impactful results.
We provide a full ecosystem of learning and development solutions that empower people and businesses to lead with confidence, learn with purpose, and achieve outcomes that matter.
Chief Product & Technology Officer
As a visionary leader, you'll lead a high-impact team to shape strategy, inspire innovation, and build a world-class product that will redefine what's possible in learning and technology.
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