Build and continuously improve products serving both external users and internal teams, ensuring strong user experience, scalability, and measurable business impact.
Set clear technology direction and align engineering and data roadmaps with company strategy and business priorities.
Oversee system architecture and cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency as the company grows.
Guide key technology decisions across platform architecture, cloud providers, and engineering practices with sufficient hands-on depth to earn engineering team trust.
Leverage data to inform product strategy, operational improvements, and executive decision-making.
Strengthen analytics capabilities to create visibility across business and operational metrics.
Ensure strong security, privacy, and compliance practices, especially in environments handling sensitive personal and health-related data.
Implement data protection, access governance, and audit frameworks aligned with applicable regulatory requirements.
Develop and scale high-performing teams across engineering and data functions.
Hire, coach, and support senior managers and technical leads to build a strong leadership layer beneath you.
Establish clear operating rhythms, performance frameworks, and technical standards.
Drive alignment between technology, operations, finance, and business teams.

8 or more years of experience working in fast-growing technology startups or scale-up environments.
Demonstrated experience leading engineering and/or data teams through senior managers or technical leads, not just individual contributors.
Proven ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels, translating business goals into platform and technology outcomes.
Strong product judgment combined with sufficient technical depth to guide architecture and platform decisions.
Hands-on familiarity with scalable, cloud-native systems and modern data platforms.
Experience working in regulated or data-sensitive environments (health, insurance, fintech, or similar) is a strong plus.
Excellent communication and stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to drive clarity in ambiguous, fast-moving situations.
A strong ownership mindset and the confidence to make high-impact decisions with incomplete information.
Comfort with periodic travel within Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, for on-site collaboration with the client team (approximately once a month).

Director of Technology

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