Strategy & Operations Manager, Office of the Cto

Cyera Cyera · Vertical AI · NY Metro · R&D

This role supports the CTO's office by managing strategic customer relationships, driving executive engagements, and ensuring operational effectiveness. It involves translating customer feedback into strategic recommendations and building AI-powered workflows to enhance founder leverage. The role requires experience with strategic enterprise customers, cross-functional collaboration with Product and Engineering, and proficiency with AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Maximize CTO effectiveness by driving preparation, execution, and follow-through for strategic customer engagements and executive initiatives.
  2. Coordinate founder-led interactions, executive requests, events, and communications to support strategic deals, renewals, and company priorities.
  3. Ensure accountability and timely execution of founder commitments across customers and multiple internal stakeholders.
  4. Serve as the cross-functional facilitator for Cyera's most strategic accounts, aligning teams around customer priorities, risks, and opportunities.
  5. Drive resolution of critical customer issues and executive escalations while maintaining executive-level customer confidence.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in Strategy & Operations, Account Management, Solutions Engineering, Program Management, Consulting, Chief of Staff, or similar roles.
  • Comfort operating at the intersection of executive strategy and day-to-day hands-on execution.
  • Experience managing strategic enterprise customers, preferably within cybersecurity, SaaS, or infrastructure technology environments.
  • Experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams.
  • Strong operational instincts and exceptional attention to detail.
  • Proficiency with relevant AI tools and modern operational systems.
  • Ability to quickly synthesize complex information - both business and technical contexts - and communicate with clarity and executive voice.
  • Experience navigating high-stakes customer situations and executive escalations.
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
  • Excellent written communication and executive presentation skills.
  • High levels of discretion, judgment, and trustworthiness.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Fortune 500 customer environments is strongly preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • critical customer needs
  • critical customer issues
  • AI-powered workflows