Chief Technology Officer

What You’ll Do

• Be the tech voice within our senior leadership team and guide decision-making and business planning as we scale;
• Own and drive Civis’s technical roadmap across both the Civis Platform and emerging AI products, ensuring alignment, cohesion, and long-term scalability
• Lead architecture decisions across platform, data, and AI systems, balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability
• Act as a player–coach: stay close to systems, technical tradeoffs, and delivery while empowering teams to execute independently. Guide the organization toward an AI-centric product and development environment, including tooling, workflows, and engineering practices
• Lead and integrate a cross-functional team spanning product, engineering, data, and AI, while serving as a visible, hands-on leader and magnet for technical talent as the organization grows (approximately 15 people initially).
• Provide thought leadership within the company; research and evaluate cutting-edge practices and enabling technologies for internal adoption; assess potential partnerships and acquisitions;
• Be the public face of Civis technology and data science; network, evangelize, and form relationships with press and peer organizations; participate in high-level sales meetings; and give back to the community.

What We’re Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

• Practical, real-world experience working with AI systems and understanding their application in production environments - beyond theory or research
• Much significant experience leading software, platform, or data engineering organizations in a hands-on leadership capacity
• Demonstrated ability to own and evolve technical roadmaps across multiple product lines or platforms
• Experience making architectural decisions for complex, data-driven systems
• Comfort getting into the technical weeds when needed to unblock teams or resolve critical issues
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and manage high-performing technical teams
• Clear, direct communication style and comfort making and standing behind difficult technical decisions
• Familiarity with building and scaling AI products in production
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and distributed systems
• Authorization to work in the United States

You Should Apply If

• You want to actively shape and build AI products, not just talk about them
• You enjoy owning technical strategy while staying close to execution and delivery
• You’re comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with imperfect information
• You want to lead teams through a meaningful shift toward AI-centric products and development practices

You Should Not Apply If

• You prefer a purely strategic or advisory CTO role with little hands-on involvement
• You are uncomfortable working directly with AI systems or learning their practical constraints
• You expect highly structured environments with minimal change
• You prefer delegating all technical depth rather than engaging directly when needed