A web startup client recently asked me for a CTO job description to paste into a business plan. Eager to oblige, I googled “Web CTO job description” and “web chief technology officer” anticipating it would take me five minutes to find what my client wanted. You’d think there would be a adequate boilerplate job description somewhere on the Net. But no, there’s no sharable, standard description of the work we do to run a web startup.
Here, then, is my first draft of a job description for the work I’ve done as a chief technology officer for web startups. You can find the entire article here: Job Description for a Web Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
After you’ve read the article, if you have anything to add or refine, you can leave a post, and I’ll update the article.
September 5, 2008 at 6:03 am |
Great article/draft job description, Daniel, thanks for sharing. -Chris
June 2, 2009 at 9:58 am |
Great job! Thanks
June 28, 2009 at 11:17 pm |
This is the ONLY job description for a Web/IT CTO available on the internet…. Great Job.
July 22, 2009 at 9:55 am |
I’ve been asked to create a job description for our CTO. This article has been quite helpful. Another one that I have found useful is…
http://www.modelbenders.com/papers/SmithR_CTOStrategy.pdf