Main Responsibilities of a CTO at Scholarly
As co-founder and CTO of a venture-backed startup, Kelly's responsibilities are "pretty wide," encompassing product development, team building ("building the product and building the team that builds the product"), and ensuring customer satisfaction and data security. Beyond this, day-to-day operations including IT management, such as "making sure employees have their computers and that they can connect to the internet," also fall under Kelly's purview.
Product Development, Team Management, Data Security, IT Management, Entrepreneurship
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Job Title
Company
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Kelly Sutton
CTO
Scholarly
Loyola Marymount University
N/A
Computer Science
Education, Technology
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
Honors Student
Video Highlights
1. Building the product and the team that builds the product
2. Keeping customer data secure
3. Managing IT infrastructure (computers, internet, email, Slack, etc.)
Transcript
What are your main responsibilities within your current role?
As a co-founder and CTO of a small venture-backed startup, the breadth of responsibilities is pretty wide. Generally, I'm in charge of more things on the technical side.
I like to say I'm building the product and building the team that builds the product. My responsibilities will likely change by the time this goes online, but for now, they roughly involve building products customers are happy with.
This also includes keeping customer data secure and handling miscellaneous IT management tasks. This means making sure employees have their computers, can connect to the internet, and can use applications like Gmail and Slack.