Who We AreHaving surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow, Optro is the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform on the market. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage our award-winning technology to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. And our customers love us: Optro is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights.At Optro, we inspire each other to innovate and are proud of what we are producing. We spend each day thinking of new ways to help our customers and contribute to the greater good of our company and our surrounding communities. We are all about assisting each other and breaking through barriers to create the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by our customers. This is how we have become one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the seventh year in a row, as ranked by Deloitte!Why This Role is ExcitingThis is not a traditional platform role.We are looking for a leader who can help re-platform and re-architect Optro for the AI era — faster, pragmatically, and with clear business impact we build the next-generation AI-native platform for connected risk and GRC.We are at a pivotal moment in our journey. What began as a category-defining platform for audit has evolved into a broader connected risk platform serving multiple business domains. Now, as AI reshapes enterprise software, we are accelerating our transformation to build the first GRC platform designed for agentic autonomy from the data model up.This is a high-impact transformation role for a leader who wants to shape the future of a category. You will lead Optro’s Platform & Architecture organization, including strategy, roadmap, and execution across our foundational platform capabilities.Key ResponsibilitiesArchitecture transformation across application, service and data layers, modernizing core architecture in a way that materially improves engineering velocityPlatform product and engineering for shared capabilities used across all business domains, including platform design system strategy, driving consistency across product surfaces that improves user adoption and reduces churnPermissions / Access platform modernization, including accelerating delivery of Permission 2.0Identity, authentication, authorization, and entitlement architectureAPI and integration strategy, including improving speed, extensibility, and partner/customer valueCore data services and shared data model, enabling roll-up reporting, shared inventory, AI insights, and connected risk workflowsCross-product platform services that unlock faster delivery across Audit, Risk, Compliance, and future domainsArchitecture team leadership, ensuring architecture drives delivery and business value rather than becoming an ivory tower functionPartner with product and engineering to establish shared UX standards across audit, risk, compliance, and future domainsAttributes for a Successful CandidateWe’re looking for a rare combination of deep technical judgment, systems thinking, product mindset, and transformational leadership.Have led major platform modernization or re-architecture efforts in a scaling enterprise SaaS company into modular architecturesKnow how to balance long-term architectural quality with near-term business needsCan lead platform product strategy, platform engineering execution, and design system adoption across multiple product teams through influence and evangelism, Experience owning shared services in an enterprise B2B SaaS environment including access/permissions, APIs/integrations, data platformsUnderstand how foundational architecture decisions impact engineering velocity, reliability, AI readiness, and customer experienceThink creatively about solving hard technical problems rather than relying on rigid or purely textbook approachesCan build credibility with senior product, engineering, AI, GTM/customer, and executive leadersKnow how to bring teams along through transformation, not just define the future-state architectureExperience in B2B SaaS, enterprise platforms, or workflow softwareExperience leading architecture modernization in a live, scaled product environmentTrack record of building high-performing teams and transforming legacy technical environmentsExperience building and scaling design and design system teams in enterprise B2B SaaS environmentsExperience driving cross-product UX consistency in both mature markets where churn is a risk and emerging markets where adoption is the challengePerks (United States)Launch a career at one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in North America and EMEA!Live your best life (LYBL)! $200/mo for anything that enhances your lifeComprehensive employee health coverage401(k) with company matchCompetitive compensation & bonus programFlexible vacation (exempt) / Accrued vacation (non-exempt)Time off for your birthday & volunteeringEmployee resource groupsOpportunities for team and company-wide get-togethers!Parental Leave*perks may vary based on eligibility/locationOur Company ValuesCustomer obsession: It starts and ends here. Consistently ask yourself how what you’re doing creates value for our customers. It’s a mindset.Gritty resilience: Make it happen. Find a way. Move fast, stay positive, and do what it takes.Drive innovation: Create the future. Continuously improve what exists and invent what’s next.Win, together: One team. No silos, no egos. Drive to be the best and support each other’s success.Growth mindset: 10x, not 10%. Think in orders of magnitude, not increments. Seek feedback, learn, and improve.Please note that background checks are required. Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. This role may have access to highly sensitive data, including employee data, customer data, company financials, and proprietary product information.We love building strong partnerships, but please note that Optro cannot accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Any submissions without a signed agreement in place will not create a fee obligation.