General Manager, Technology

Greenroom Robotics | Full-Time | Sydney, Australia (Perth Considered)

About Greenroom Robotics

Greenroom Robotics building the next generation of software to power maritime operaions - Our four products cover the four pillars of maritime autonomy: GAMA for autonomous vessels, Lookout+ for perception, MarOps for digitising operations, and MIS-SIM for simulation and validation. The platform is live with defence, commercial and offshore operators worldwide.

We're around 45 people across Fremantle, Sydney and expanding internationally. We are founder-led, working with major primes and commercial operators in Australia, the US and the UK. The engineering team is heading into its biggest period of growth yet.

About you

You've owned a technology function through a growth phase. You haven't just built software, you've run it as a business. You're commercially fluent, comfortable owning a budget and standing in front of customers, and you connect technical decisions to what the business actually needs. You can operate as a peer to other leaders without needing to be the smartest engineer in the room, and you're just as comfortable building structure where none exists as you are running it once it's built.

About the role

The General Manager of Technology manages what technology delivers for the business, both internally and externally. Reporting to the CTO and operating as a peer to the General Managers of other functions, this is the most senior technology leadership role at Greenroom aside from the CTO, with genuine business ownership across strategy, budget, commercial outcomes and our most senior technical relationships.

Where the Head of Software answers "how do we build it well?", the GM of Technology answers "is technology delivering what the business needs?" while thinking strategically. The role leads the technology function, including the Head of Software, and owns workforce planning, org design and succession as the team scales. The CTO retains technology vision and the final call on major technical bets. The Principal Software Architect reports to the CTO by design and works closely with the GM of Technology, execs and other senior management.

This role is equivalent in scope to a VP of Engineering at a comparable company.

Key responsibilities

Technology strategy

• Set technology strategy and multi-quarter direction with the CTO, within exec intent
• Set function-level goals with managers, and be accountable for the function meeting its delivery commitments, maintaining a trusted capacity view and surfacing trade-offs early

Product development and delivery

• Accountable for delivery of the product roadmap, balancing product development against customer integration demand

Budget and commercial outcomes

• Manage the technology budget, and be accountable for the commercial consequences of technical decisions: margin, delivery cost and contract feasibility
• Support deal review and pre-sales scoping where technical feasibility drives commercial commitments
• Govern R&D allocation and RDTI compliance for the technology function

Senior technical relationships

• Act as a technical face of Greenroom with customers, primes and partners, in support of Growth-owned accounts, including due diligence and partner negotiations

Technical success and customer interface

• Grow Technical Success as the interface between Tech and Customer Success: technical scoping with Growth, deployment support with Maritime Ops, and product feedback from customer accounts

Technology risk and compliance

• Manage technology risk and security posture within the appetite set by the CTO and exec, delivered through the IT & Cyber team, escalating with clear options
• Own the compliance gates that unlock contracts (NIST, ISO27001, etc.), coordinating with company-level risk and compliance owners

People, org and succession

• Own workforce planning, org design and succession: right people in right seats, leadership-level hiring, and development of technical managers
• Institutionalise founder and key-person knowledge while keeping the function fast and founder-led in character
• Set the standard for a safety-conscious engineering culture appropriate to safety-critical software

Cross-functional leadership

• Operate as a peer to the other GMs to solve cross-functional challenges, resolving issues at the right level rather than escalating upward
• Report function performance, risks and investment needs to exec, and support board and advisory group engagement on technology as required

What you'll bring

Must have

• Track record of scaling an organisation through a growth phase
• Strong technical background
• Experience scaling culture as a team grows, not just headcount
• Exposure to budgetary accountability from a technical perspective
• Part of a management team responsible for a product roadmap

Nice to have

• Experience owning external customer relationships, comfortable being the technical face in commercial conversations
• Background in maritime or defence

Why you'll love it here

You're not shipping features nobody uses. Our software runs on real vessels, in real oceans, for operators who are counting on it. Our products are already deployed in most of the world's oceans. That's not a demo environment, that's the job.

The engineering team is growing fast. It's small enough that your work has a direct line to what ships, big enough that you're not doing it alone. You'll work on hard problems in AI, autonomy and real-time systems, alongside people who take the engineering seriously and the mission seriously.

We're an Australian company building world class maritime autonomy technology, not a local player with local ambitions. Safer oceans, cleaner oceans, better protected oceans, that's what the work adds up to.

Give it a shot

We know that diverse teams make us better and we welcome applicants regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, parental status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. If you need an accommodation at any point in the process, just let us know.

If you don't tick every box on this list, apply anyway. We'd rather meet someone great than miss them over a checklist.

How to apply

Send your CV and 2-3 sentences about why you are the right person for this role to hello@seriesbuild.com