Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO)

Confidential AI and Services Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Executive compensation package

Job summary

Confidential AI and Services Company is assembling a stealth-mode venture in software, data and AI with services to help enterprises identify high-value opportunities and activate improvements. The CTPO will own product, engineering and AI/data, guiding architecture, stack, and go-to-market in a high-autonomy environment.

You will report to the CEO as part of the executive team, inherit an ~10-person engineering group, and drive a disciplined product process from discovery to post-launch

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Exceptional product judgment and ability to take meaningful technology products from concept through launch.
• Deep technical fluency with opportunity to participate in architecture and engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, prioritization and sequencing.
• Own technology strategy, architecture and engineering end to end.
• Own AI and data strategy and ensure value creation.
• Lead the combined product, engineering and AI/data organization.
• Recruit exceptional technical and product talent and build leadership layer.

Skills

Product leadership

Technical depth

AI/ML systems

Systems thinking

Speed to shipping

Tools

Architecture design

Job description

The company is an entrepreneurial global technology services group of around 1,500 employees with a presence across three continents and serving some of the most amazing Direct-to-Consumer brands in the US and UK. We are building a new technology venture in stealth mode around software, data and AI combined with services (including forward deployed teams) to help businesses identify high-value operational opportunities, quantify their impact and activate improvements.

We are looking for a Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO) to take the product from early prototype to a production-ready platform used by paying enterprise customers, while building the product and technology organization behind it.

This is a true combination of the CTO and CPO roles. You will own what we build, why we build it, how we build it, and how quickly we get it deployed in organisations.

We are looking for someone with unusual range: strong product judgment, real technical depth, systems thinking and a relentless instinct to ship.

The CTPO will report directly to the CEO and be part of the company’s executive team.

The Mandate

This is a highly entrepreneurial opportunity in which you will have full ownership of product, engineering and AI/data.

You will inherit an approximately 10-person engineering team and have broad freedom to change what needs changing: architecture, technology stack, team structure, product processes and development practices. You will have substantial autonomy over product and technology strategy — and equally substantial accountability for the outcome.

In brief, the mandate is to build an exceptional product, get it into the hands of real customers, prove that it creates measurable value, and build the organization capable of scaling it.

What You Will Own

Product

• Own product strategy, roadmap, prioritization and sequencing.
• Decide what gets built — and what should not.
• Establish rigorous product-management discipline across discovery, experimentation, release and post-launch learning.
• Work directly with customers, prospects and commercial teams to identify the problems that matter most.
• Create a strong bias toward shipping, learning and iterating rather than over-engineering.
• Set a high bar for UX and product design.
• Own technology strategy, architecture and engineering end to end.
• Make the major decisions across architecture, stack, infrastructure and technical standards.
• Remain personally close to technical design, architecture, prototyping and code where it matters.
• Own engineering velocity, reliability, quality and delivery.
• Decide what should be retained, refactored or rebuilt.
• Own AI and data strategy, including where AI genuinely creates value and where it does not.
• Build differentiated technology or data capabilities that can contribute to long-term defensibility.
• Own security, privacy, resilience and enterprise technical readiness.

We do not want a technology executive who has moved so far from the work that every technical question must be delegated.

Team

• Lead the combined product, engineering and AI/data organization.
• Assess the existing team and redesign the organization where required.
• Recruit exceptional technical and product talent.
• Build strong technical leadership beneath the CTPO role.
• Set a high performance bar and create a culture of urgency, ownership, intellectual honesty and high standards.

We would rather have a smaller group of exceptional builders than a large team producing activity without momentum.

Customers & Commercial Impact

You must have an orientation to stay close to and engage with customers and prospects in order to validate product direction, support critical early deployments and rapidly incorporate real-world learning into the roadmap.

Who We Are Looking For

You may already be a CTO, CPO or CTPO, or an exceptional VP / Head of Product / Head of Engineering ready for a broader mandate. We care far more about what you have built than your title, university or employer logos.

You will likely have:

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• A strong record of taking meaningful technology products from concept through launch and iteration.
• Exceptional product judgment.
• Deep technical fluency and the ability to participate directly in architecture and engineering decisions.
• A willingness to remain technically hands-on as the organization grows.
• Strong applied understanding of modern AI and machine-learning systems.
• Excellent systems thinking across product, technology, data and workflows.
• A bias toward speed, action and continuous iteration.
• Confidence to challenge assumptions and existing architecture.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity without waiting for perfect information.
• Experience with, or a strong appreciation of, B2B technology combined with services.

If you can demonstrate exceptional technical capability, product judgment and evidence of shipping meaningful products, we are interested.

How You Operate

You will probably enjoy this role if you:

• Prefer building to administering.
• Move quickly and dislike unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Naturally move between product and technology.
• Want to stay close to the work.
• Make hard decisions when they need to be made.
• Have strong convictions but change your mind when the evidence changes.
• Care more about products being used than presentations about products being built.
• Are energized by substantial autonomy and equally substantial accountability.

We are trying to build something exceptional. We are looking for someone who finds that prospect energizing.

Compensation

Competitive executive compensation plus a meaningful equity or long-term incentive opportunity.