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So I'm curious- I can understand why you'd want a fractional CFO or CMO, but what does a fractional CTO even do? In my mind a CTO is either someone who manages

by ajb 2y ago

So I'm curious- I can understand why you'd want a fractional CFO or CMO, but what does a fractional CTO even do? In my mind a CTO is either someone who manages multiple teams,or someone who manages a team that does 'de novo' deeply technical work. It's difficult for me to see how either of those would work part time, or really that that their skill set would be applicable to a company that can only afford part of their time. In a small team,why would you hire a fractional CTO as opposed to just making sure your most senior engineer is able to mentor the juniors?

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tbird24 2y ago
[I'm the founder of https://fractionaljobs.io https://fractionaljobs.io] You'd hire a Fractional CTO when you don't have the need for (or the budget for) a full-time CTO, but still want that level of technical expertise. It's really as simple as that. If you have a senior engineer that can flex into that role and that's good enough for you, then great. We help a couple companies a month hire Fractional CTOs though for the reasons I stated above. When it works, it can work exceptionally well but its NOT right for every use case.