CodeRise Talent
Chief Digital Officer
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The company
Our client is a well-backed, early-stage technology company building a privacy-first digital identity and data infrastructure platform. Its architecture uses zero-knowledge encryption to make surveillance mathematically impossible while enabling secure, consent-driven data sharing. The business is pursuing a dual-market strategy across the UK and the UAE, with sovereign hosting and government deployment partnerships already in place, and a platform spanning government services, healthcare, financial services and cross-border identity.
This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to shape a category-defining product and join the executive team as a full voting board director.
The role
As Chief Digital Officer you will own product, user experience and customer engagement end to end. You will translate a bold zero-knowledge, user-sovereign vision into a product that wins in the market, and build the customer engine that turns technical differentiation into commercial traction and retention. You will be the CEO's principal partner on product and go-to-market, and a full voting member of the board.
What you will own
- Product strategy and roadmap across a large, multi-wave platform, sequenced from foundation capabilities through to industry and integration modules.
- The UX and design standard across web, mobile and embedded touchpoints, including design systems, user research and accessibility.
- Customer onboarding, implementation methodology and customer success, with retention and reference-customer programmes that support fundraising and sales.
- Standards and interoperability strategy across the modern identity stack, including eIDAS, OIDC and W3C DID and Verifiable Credentials.
- Board-level contribution to strategy, governance and investor engagement, alongside building your product, design and customer success functions from the ground up.
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What our client is looking for
- 15+ years in digital technology, with senior leadership across product ownership and complex system implementation in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare or government.
- Proven delivery of secure data management or identity systems at enterprise scale.
- Genuine product leadership: roadmap ownership, hard prioritisation under constraint, and a track record of shipped outcomes.
- Strong UX sensibility, with experience directing design teams and design systems.
- C-level customer credibility across pre-sales, implementation and executive relationship management.
- Experience operating at, or reporting directly into, a board.
- Comfort with startup ambiguity: building functions from zero, iterating fast and scaling through funding stages.
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Nice to have
- Experience with digital identity standards and national ID schemes, familiarity with zero-knowledge cryptography and privacy-preserving architectures, UAE government or enterprise experience, published thought leadership in cybersecurity or digital identity, and experience preparing companies for institutional investment diligence.
The package
Competitive executive base salary, performance bonus and significant equity, plus pension, private healthcare, 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays and a professional development budget. This is an executive founding-team appointment with meaningful ownership and a board seat.
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