Chief Technology Officer

Cherry Ventures; Greater London; Remote; GBP 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Cherry is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to own the technology strategy, architecture, and infrastructure across our AI research group. This is a senior, highly technical role reporting to the Founder & CEO and guiding the VP Engineering who runs day-to-day delivery.

You'll shape long-term architecture across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem deployments, partner with the Chief Scientist to productionize breakthroughs, and lead governance, security, and cost management for scalable, compliant

Qualifications

• Senior technology leadership in a high-growth tech company.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and large-scale platform design.
• Strong grasp of modern AI infrastructure and what it takes to deploy advanced AI in production.
• Experience running shared platforms that serve several products or customer environments.
• A track record of leading senior engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
• Strong commercial judgement on technology economics and capital allocation.

Responsibilities

• Define and own technology strategy across all businesses and advise the CEO on major technical decisions.
• Design shared, scalable infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, sovereign and on-prem deployments.
• Partner with the Chief Scientist to productionize breakthroughs including models, knowledge graphs and autonomous capabilities.
• Own group-wide security, resilience, and governance standards for enterprise-grade compliance.
• Hire, mentor and oversee the VP Engineering and build a scalable engineering organization.
• Manage cloud, compute and inference costs; make build-versus-buy decisions and select partners.
• Contribute to company strategy, fundraising and represent the company to partners, customers and investors.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

AI infrastructure

Platform design

Leadership

Job description

Chief Technology Officer: AI Research Company (Stealth)

Location: UK or US preferred; international candidates considered

Reports to: Founder & CEO

About the company

We're an early-stage AI research and technology company building foundational intelligence for complex, high-stakes decision-making. Our research goes beyond large language models towards artificial judgement: systems that can understand complex environments, reason across disciplines, form strategies and act on them.

That core intelligence powers three applications: enterprise (B2B), regulated legal and consumer. Each has its own demands for scale, security and governance.

The role

We're looking for a CTO to own the technology strategy, architecture and infrastructure behind the group. This is a senior, highly technical role. You'll work alongside the Founder & CEO and the Chief Scientist, and lead the VP Engineering, who owns day-to-day delivery.

What you'll own

• Technology strategy: Set the long-term architecture and investment roadmap across all three businesses, and advise the CEO on major technical decisions and risks.
• Architecture and infrastructure: Design shared, scalable infrastructure covering cloud, hybrid, sovereign and on-prem, multi-tenancy, data isolation and regional deployment.
• AI infrastructure: Partner with the Chief Scientist to turn research breakthroughs into production systems, including proprietary models, knowledge graphs and autonomous capabilities.
• Security and governance: Own group-wide standards for security, resilience and compliance, to the level that major enterprises, governments and regulated industries expect.
• Engineering leadership: Hire, mentor and oversee the VP Engineering, and build an organisation that can scale quickly.
• Technology economics: Manage cloud, compute and inference costs, make build-versus-buy calls, and choose infrastructure partners.
• Executive leadership: Contribute to company strategy, fundraising and board discussions, and represent the company to partners, customers and investors.

What you'll bring

• Senior technology leadership in a high-growth tech company
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and large-scale platform design
• A strong grasp of modern AI infrastructure and what it takes to deploy advanced AI in production
• Experience running shared platforms that serve several products or customer environments
• A track record of leading senior engineering leaders and building high-performing teams
• Strong commercial judgement on technology economics and capital allocation

Nice to have

• Experience at a frontier AI lab, a global tech company or a scaling enterprise software business
• Infrastructure work on foundation models or autonomous agents
• Experience across both B2B and B2C, or in regulated sectors such as finance, legal, government or defence
• Experience scaling a company from early stage to international operations

Who you are

You're a strong technologist and a strategic builder. You can make architecture decisions that will shape the company for the next decade, and you're commercially sharp. You're a true partner to the founder, comfortable challenging and advising. You lead leaders, and you work with high trust, low ego, rigour and pace.

You'll lay the technical foundations of a company opening a new frontier in AI, with real ownership from day one and the chance to bring advanced intelligence into high-stakes, real-world settings.