Chief Technology Officer, Showpad
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2 days a week in office
Sales enablement platform for sales content, training and coaching
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Sales enablement platform for sales content, training and coaching
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Showpad's mission is to empower sales and marketing to sell the way buyers want to buy.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations (150–500+ engineers), ideally across multiple hubs such as the U.S., India, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe
- Proven success in unifying and modernizing multi-product SaaS portfolios, particularly in environments with differing tech stacks, mixed architectures, or multiple acquired codebases
- Demonstrated ability to drive engineering transformation in a PE-backed or financially disciplined environment, improving velocity, quality, and cost efficiency while supporting EBITDA expansion
- Hands-on technical depth across modern cloud architectures, data platforms, and AI/ML-powered product capabilities
- Strong customer-facing presence with credibility in enterprise SaaS, capable of representing engineering to strategic customers, partners, and executive stakeholders
- Track record of aligning engineering strategy with business outcomes, including platform simplification, customer experience improvements, predictable delivery, and scalable global execution
- Experience building leadership depth in global teams and driving cultural cohesion across geographically dispersed engineering organizations
- Comfort operating in complex, high-change environments with multiple stakeholders, legacy constraints, and a need for architectural clarity and decisive prioritization
- The CTO must have the business acumen, commercial orientation, and overall leadership style to be a key member on a highly collaborative and experienced senior leadership team
- Humble and Authentic - Lacks ego and engages colleagues in a transparent and “real” fashion
- Results-Oriented - Focused on achieving success and holding others accountable
- Strategic - Ability to understand the big picture and operationalize it
- People-oriented - Thinks about how people will be affected and skilled at dealing with others
- Communication - Exceptional EQ and knows how to communicate effectively with all levels of the company
- Intellectual Curiosity - Demonstrates the ability to learn quickly and has a high mental capacity
- Decisive - Clearly defines a path forward and is comfortable taking action to achieve a goal
What the job involves
- The CTO will play a pivotal role in redefining the future of revenue enablement by unifying Showpad’s multi-product portfolio into a modern, scalable platform used by sellers and marketers around the world
- This leader will be central to shaping the technical strategy that brings together Showpad and BigTinCan’s combined assets, modernizing to a unified platform, and accelerating the company’s shift toward AI-powered enablement
- As a key member of the senior team, the CTO will be instrumental in building a high-performing global engineering organization, establishing architectural clarity across 17+ products, and positioning Showpad for its next stage of profitable growth
- This is a rare opportunity to lead a complex technology transformation at scale while helping define the next generation of an industry-leading platform
- Lead and transform Showpad’s global engineering organization, ensuring teams are aligned, high-performing, and executing consistently across geographies
- Drive the unification and modernization of Showpad’s multi-product estate (17+ products), consolidating legacy Showpad and BigTinCan systems into a single, scalable, cloud-first, AI-enabled platform
- Establish and execute the architectural strategy required to migrate long-tail acquired products toward a modern core platform, balancing near-term customer commitments with long-term simplification
- Implement disciplined engineering processes, KPIs, and operating mechanisms to increase development velocity, improve quality, and materially reduce cost across global teams
- Strengthen the global delivery model with a particular focus on scaling Pune as a major engineering hub while maintaining Belgium as a center of excellence and Boston as the leadership anchor
- Partner closely with Product to translate the commercial strategy into a clear, focused engineering roadmap, ensuring faster innovation around AI, content intelligence, coaching, and buyer engagement workflows
- Engage directly with enterprise customers and strategic partners, representing technical credibility and helping shape the evolution of the next-gen Enablement OS
- Develop leadership depth and organizational cohesion across distributed teams, mentoring senior engineering leaders and instilling a culture of accountability, transparency, and technical excellence
- Support the CEO and investors in future M&A diligence and integration, including tech evaluation, consolidation planning, and organizational integration
- Report regularly to the CEO and PE sponsors on engineering performance, platform progress, risk management, and milestones tied to EBITDA improvement and value-creation goals
Our take
Sales teams have always used tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals.
Showpad believes it's part of the fourth pillar of the technology marketing stack: storage (the cloud services where you keep all your data), CRM, marketing automation and sales enablement. The first three help manage a salesperson's activities, while sales enablement helps them to be more effective.
Their technology allows employees to share sales collateral. The material and its link to successful sales becomes part of how Showpad “learns” what works and what doesn’t, enabling them to suggest materials for a specific sales effort.
Showpad has ties to companies in over 50 countries, and in 2023, it released its Enablement Operating System product for its preexisting customers, a first-of-its-kind analytics and insights dashboard. In 2025, it was announced that American firm Vector Capital would buy Showpad, integrating it with another acquisition, Bigtincan Holdings. The latter would become part of Showpad, and together, the company would expand their geographic reach and product capabilities.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2019
$70m
SERIES D
Jan 2018
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $155.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Ghent, Flanders
Leadership
Previously worked in Talent Development at Skillsoft, as COO at SumTotal Systems and was a General Manager at SevOne. Is currently also a Board Adviser at Konovo.
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