About the role
Chief of Staff to the CTO | Vinted Careers Vinted Careers Jobs Relocation How We Hire Engineering Academy Data Science & Analytics Academy Marketing Tech Academy Internships Early Careers Blog Vinted Group Vinted Marketplace Vinted Go Vinted Pay Inclusion at Vinted About en Chief of Staff to the CTO Vilnius Kaunas Multiple locations, Lithuania Engineering Vinted Group Brief info about Vinted Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third. The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission: Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life. Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces. Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members. Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG. Information about the position The Chief of Staff (CoS) to the CTO is a force multiplier for an Engineering organisation of 800+ people. You will design and operate mechanisms that help the CTO, Engineering Leadership Team (ELT), and Engineering execute with clarity, speed, and alignment. In this position, you’ll Strategic Partnership Serve as a trusted advisor, sounding board, and force multiplier to the CTO, providing advice and guidance on strategic, operational, and organisational matters within the engineering function. Acts as a delegated authority of the CTO, representing the CTO in executive forums and making decisions within an agreed scope. Operate with the highest degree of trust and discretion, handling sensitive information and internal dynamics responsibly and confidentially. Own incubation and early-stage scaling of new strategic initiatives, shaping multi-quarter transformation programs before transitioning them into durable ownership. Facilitate resolution of high-stakes cross-functional tradeoffs where Engineering priorities intersect with other functions. Anticipate the CTO’s information needs - connecting dots across teams, surfacing emerging issues early, and framing options before they become problems. Prepare the CTO for key meetings and decisions by summarising context, tradeoffs, and data-driven insights. Serve as acting operator for the Engineering function in the CTO’s absence when required. Operational Excellence Ensures the Engineering function’s operating model evolves in line with the company strategy over a multi-year horizon. Identify and redesign critical Engineering systems (e.g., onboarding, planning, performance management) to scale with organisational growth. Own high-impact organisational transformations (e.g., re-orgs, capability shifts, structural redesigns) across the Engineering function, ensuring durable structural and cultural outcomes. Own the architecture, governance, and continuous evolution of Engineering’s performance and organisational health systems, ensuring data drives executive-level decisions. Own the design and continuous evolution of the Engineering Leadership Team operating model to ensure strategic clarity, decision velocity, and accountability at scale Communication Define and drive the communication strategy and cadence for Engineering, ensuring clear, consistent, and timely messaging to the wider organisation and external stakeholders. This includes designing and bringing to life strategic alignment mechanisms (e.g., offsites, function-wide forums, all-hands). Own Engineering’s executive-level narrative and reporting to executive-level stakeholders, shaping how the function’s performance, risks, and strategy are represented (e.g. QBRs that the CTO presents to the GLT. (Co-) author key documents on function-related topics, based on high-level instructions and discussions with