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.
Great article/draft job description, Daniel, thanks for sharing. -Chris
Great job! Thanks
This is the ONLY job description for a Web/IT CTO available on the internet…. Great Job.
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
This is a really thorough JD – well done,
Though I was looking for a JD of a CTO in the Mobile service industry, I found your JD to be well crafted and extremely useful.TKS
Rauff Reffai
Institutional Dev.Consultant
Formerly of Whitbread Plc,UK
Thanks, good input for a job description I am working on!