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Rob Hill

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Director of Product and Technology at Kudosity
📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia

Rob Hill is a results-oriented executive leader with 25 years of experience across the tech, retail, and media industries. He specializes in building high-performing teams, driving organizational change, and launching innovative SaaS products. Colleagues describe him as a versatile, visionary, and easygoing leader.

He is actively sharing his leadership knowledge by authoring a "CTO Playbook, " a series of articles based on his extensive experience in technology leadership roles. His writing tackles topics like performance culture, bottlenecks, and challenging conventional practices like maintaining large backlogs.

Unique fact: One of his most provocative articles is titled "Delete Your JIRA Backlog, " which he calls the best LinkedIn article ever written.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Director of Product and Technology
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Sydney Area, Australia
Personality Overview

How Rob shows up

Assertive
Persuasive
Values Relationships

They are not against taking risks and can make tough decisions when required.
 They prefer to ensure that they are in control of the situation. They will bat for you if they come to believe in you.

Priorities

Topics Rob cares about

The CTO Playbook
He is currently authoring and sharing a series of articles called the "CTO Playbook, " detailing lessons learned from his career in senior technology leadership roles.
Software Delivery Metrics
He shows a strong interest in software delivery maturity, sharing articles and commentary on using Accelerate/DORA metrics to measure team performance and identify bottlenecks.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Director of Product and Technology
Kudosity
11-2024
Advisor
Morfless
10-2021 - 7-2024
Chief Technology Officer
Booktopia
2-2020 - 10-2021
Head Of Technical Services
NextGen.Net
6-2017 - 2-2020
Head of Infrastructure and Operations
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In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2005 - 2005
Computer Science Degree Equivalency
Australian Computer Society, Sydney, Australia
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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