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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Who is this person? Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. For example, as a lead is nurtured and converts to become a customer, you might need to: Integrate payments (Stripe). They might have focused on different areas, but applying the scientific method to marketing is not new.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” ” But being out here in California at the time I saw what Cisco was doing, what Dell was doing. Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. You’re dot com.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Harry Stebbings: So given the centrality of that role there and the ever increasing prominence of it, I guess my next question is for operators listening, when is the right time to hire that first CIO?

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).