Role Summary

RIPTK is looking for a practical, commercially minded Chief Technology Officer with technology management experience within a large mobile network operator or telecommunications organization. This role is suited to a technology generalist who understands how hardware, embedded systems, software, cloud platforms, network infrastructure, and data come together in a commercial telecommunications environment. The CTO will own RIPTK’s overall technology strategy and product roadmap.

They will manage external development partners, oversee the progression of RIPTK Pulse from commercial MVP to a scalable product, and ensure that field deployments generate measurable and recognizable value for customers.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy and Roadmap

- Own and continuously refine RIPTK’s technology and product roadmap.
- Translate the company’s commercial objectives into clear technical priorities, milestones, and development plans.
- Establish the technical architecture required to scale RIPTK’s hardware, communications, cloud, data, and customer-facing software.
- Evaluate technical trade-offs relating to cost, performance, reliability, manufacturability, security, scalability, and time to market.
- Ensure the technology roadmap remains aligned with the operational priorities of mobile network operators.

Product Development Leadership
- Oversee the integration of hardware, firmware, wireless communications, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, APIs, dashboards, and analytics.
- Define product requirements, technical specifications, acceptance criteria, and performance standards.
- Establish disciplined processes for product testing, validation, quality assurance, documentation, and release management.
- Guide the product from commercial MVP through field validation and certification.

External Engineering and Vendor Management
- Serve as the primary technical leader responsible for managing our engineering firm and other technology partners/vendors.
- Define scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and technical expectations.
- Review engineering progress and identify risks, dependencies, and gaps before they affect delivery.
- Hold external partners accountable for quality, documentation, timelines, and commercial outcomes.
- Determine which technical capabilities should remain outsourced and which should eventually be developed internally.

Field Deployment and Customer Value




- Lead the technical planning of field trials and commercial deployments with mobile network operators and telecommunications partners.
- Ensure field data is collected, structured, analyzed, and translated into actionable customer insights.
- Convert field findings into product improvements, customer use cases, commercial evidence, and roadmap priorities.

Data and Analytics
- Define RIPTK’s strategy for collecting, managing, analyzing, and presenting field and device data.
- Ensure data generated by RIPTK products is accurate, secure, and reliable.
- Guide the development of dashboards, alerts, reporting tools, integrations, and future analytics capabilities.
- Establish appropriate practices for data governance, ownership, access, retention, and cybersecurity.

Technical Customer and Partner Engagement
- Translate complex technical information into clear operational and commercial language.
- Support customer discovery, technical sales discussions, pilot design, partnership development, and due diligence.
- Gather structured feedback from customers and ensure it informs product development decisions.

Team and Organizational Development
- Build and lead RIPTK’s internal technical organization as the company grows.
- Identify future hiring needs across hardware, firmware, software, cloud, data, product, quality, and field engineering.
- Establish clear technical ownership, decision-making processes, development standards, and performance expectations.
- Create a culture of accountability, practical problem-solving, technical excellence, and customer focus.
- Mentor technical team members and support effective collaboration across engineering, operations, product, and commercial functions.

Risk, Quality, and Compliance
- Oversee compliance, testing, and telecommunications requirements.
- Ensure products are designed for reliable operation in demanding outdoor field environments.
- Develop appropriate processes for incident management, root-cause analysis, product changes, and continuous improvement.




- Protect RIPTK’s intellectual property and support the development of its patent and technology strategy.

Required Experience

- A degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical degree.
- 10+ years of telecommunications experience in a technical capacity.
- 5+ years managing a team with a large mobile network operator.
- Strong understanding of mobile network infrastructure, field operations, network performance, and telecommunications deployment environments.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary technology programs involving a combination of hardware, embedded systems, software, cloud platforms, connectivity, and data.
- Demonstrated experience managing external engineering firms, vendors, manufacturers, or technical delivery partners.
- Ability to connect technical performance with customer value, operational impact, and return on investment.
- Experience managing technical budgets, timelines, risks, requirements, and delivery milestones.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with both technical and executive audiences.

Preferred Experience

- Experience with antenna systems, radio frequency technology, RF monitoring, network test and measurement, or telecommunications infrastructure.
- Experience with cloud architecture, data platforms, dashboards, APIs, alerting systems, or analytics products.
- Experience moving a product from MVP through NPI, DFM, certification, and commercial scale.
- Experience in a venture-backed startup, scale-up, innovation group, or new product commercialization environment.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, data governance, and product certification.

What We Offer

- Competitive salary.
- Meaningful stock options.
- Performance-based bonus structure.
- Health Benefits.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Flexible work arrangements, balanced with in-person collaboration when required.
- The opportunity to shape the technology, product roadmap, and technical organization of an early-stage telecommunications company.

* The annual salary range for this role is $150,000 CAD to $200,000 CAD. * For candidates who demonstrate full readiness for the defined scope of the role, the typical starting salary is $175,000 CAD. Offers below this point reflect candidates we believe can grow into the full scope of the role with support and development. Offers above this point reflect impact that meaningfully exceeds the role’s defined expectations or an expanded scope from day one.

📌 Chief Technology Officer (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 RIPTK Technologies
📍 Greater Toronto Area