
Chief Product Technology Officer - Classter
About the role
Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) · Classter
About Banyan
About Classter
The Role
What you will own
- Product vision, roadmap and prioritization, end to end. This is the core of the role, and more so as AI reshapes the product.
- Product direction and priority arbitration across the company, done in the open with the CEO and the leadership team.
- The engineering organization: its structure, delivery, quality and growth. You lead it through its team leads and own its direction and standards.
- Alignment of Product with go-to-market, the ideal customer profile and Sales, so the company builds with intent and stops shipping ad hoc.
- Technical strategy and architecture, keeping the platform coherent, scalable and secure, and able to support the roadmap.
- Predictable delivery, turning the roadmap into shipped software at a reliable pace.
- A deliberate approach to AI, in the product and in how the team builds, with a clear business model behind it.
Your first twelve months
- A product vision and roadmap the whole company understands and can execute against.
- A shift from a reactive, request-driven motion to a proactive, roadmap-driven one.
- Product, ICP and go-to-market visibly aligned (in collaboration with the other C's), with ad hoc development materially reduced.
- A credible plan to scale the product architecture, sequenced and underway.
- Engineering delivering to the roadmap at a predictable pace, with clear standards in place.
- At least one meaningful AI move, in the product or in how the team builds, with a business model attached.
The team you will lead
Essential
- A senior leader who has owned both Product and Engineering, or a product leader who has genuinely run engineering. Strong track record in B2B SaaS, ideally vertical software.
- You have owned product vision, roadmap and prioritization at scale. You decide, you do not only facilitate.
- You have led engineering organizations: architecture and technical strategy, delivery and quality, structuring and growing a team. Credible with engineers, not a manager who delegates the technology.
- Experience taking a complex, feature-rich product and making its architecture coherent and scalable.
- A clear point of view on AI, in the product and in engineering, with a business model behind it.
- You align product tightly with go-to-market and the ideal customer profile.
- You bring direction to a founder-led company and an established team without steamrolling them.
Nice to have
- Education, EdTech, or another regulated, workflow-heavy vertical.
- International, multi-market SaaS.
- Experience in a founder-led company moving from craft to scale.
- Exposure to M&A and product integration.
Why this role
- A real ownership seat across product and engineering, with the mandate to shape where Classter goes.
- A strong product and team to build on, not a turnaround from zero.
- A permanent-capital owner behind you, with a long-term horizon.
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