Chief AI Officer

Texterous; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Equity potential

Team retreats

Hybrid working

Job summary

Texterous is seeking a Chief AI Officer to translate business needs into practical, safe AI within Austria and the DACH region. You’ll embed with client teams, ship prototypes, and present AI roadmaps to boards, guiding transformations from the inside.

You should bring a technical background in AI or related fields, strong English and German communication, and an entrepreneurial mindset suitable for a scale-up. Hybrid work and growth-oriented benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• You have a technical background or demonstrable affinity with AI, engineering, software development and/or consultancy.
• You don't need to be a deep-tech specialist, but you do need to genuinely understand the subject.
• You communicate and present confidently in English and German, Dutch is a big plus!
• You're entrepreneurial and enjoy the social side of the job just as much as the technical side.
• You're able to build client trust and make complex tech clear to non-technical people.

Responsibilities

• Translate business challenges into concrete, achievable AI use cases, prioritized on impact, feasibility and risk.
• Build prototypes, proofs of concept and working solutions with modern AI tooling, together with a team.
• Create AI roadmaps and implementation plans, and make sure they actually land with clients.
• Deliver workshops, training and presentations on AI and responsible AI use.
• Act as the primary AI point of contact, from leadership to development team.
• Help build our own service offering, playbooks and frameworks.

Skills

AI strategy

Prototype development

Roadmap creation

Public speaking

Client relationship

Job description

Companies now know they need to do something with AI. They just don't know what, how, or where to start. That's where you come in.

At Texterous we turn AI strategy into working solutions, not slides that gather dust. As Chief AI Officer, you're the face to our clients in Austria and the wider DACH region: you translate business needs into practical, safe AI that people actually use. One week you're shipping a working prototype, the next you're in front of a client's board explaining their AI roadmap.

You'll be embedded, sometimes temporarily, sometimes per project, with client organizations, leading their AI transformation from the inside.

What you should like to do

• Translate business challenges into concrete, achievable AI use cases, prioritized on impact, feasibility and risk.
• Build prototypes, proofs of concept and working solutions with modern AI tooling, together with a team.
• Create AI roadmaps and implementation plans, and make sure they actually land with clients.
• Deliver workshops, training and presentations on AI and responsible AI use.
• Act as the primary AI point of contact, from leadership to development team.
• Help build our own service offering, playbooks and frameworks.

What type of person is a Chief AI Officer?

• You have a technical background or demonstrable affinity with AI, engineering, software development and/or consultancy. You don't need to be a deep-tech specialist, but you do need to genuinely understand the subject.
• You communicate and present confidently in English and German, Dutch is a big plus!
• You're entrepreneurial and enjoy the social side of the job just as much as the technical side.
• You like working in a scale-up environment.
• You're able to build client trust and make complex tech clear to non-technical people.

Why join?

• A good salary, plus a benefits package designed to support your growth and well-being, which could include profit sharing and/or equity as those plans take shape.
• A young, smart and entrepreneurial group of people that work together on AI projects and like to have fun. We regularly head out on team retreats to build, think and do fun stuff together.
• A place to build, experiment and learn alongside other like-minded AI enthusiasts.
• Hybrid working.
• Interesting AI projects across the whole DACH region and Benelux, and who knows where next in the world :)