Chief Technology Officer | World-class AI product

Osmium Consulting Group Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,800,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Significant equity stake

Flexible work-from-home

Work From Anywhere

Autonomy to shape teams

Job summary

Osmium Consulting Group Limited is seeking an executive-level engineering leader to own the platform's technical direction end-to-end, including real-time messaging, CRM-as-system-of-record, and AI orchestration.

You will guide architecture, lead a distributed engineering team, and collaborate with GTM and Product to align technical decisions with business outcomes. This role emphasizes production AI experience, reliability, and enterprise-scale growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with managerial experience and ownership of technical direction as final decision-maker.
• Product and commercial mindset: connect technical decisions to business outcomes and collaborate with GTM and Product.
• Hands-on architect: deep in system design, guiding engineers through architecture and brainstorming.
• Production AI experience: built AI and shipped LLM/agentic systems, focusing on evals, reliability, and guardrails.
• Experience scaling distributed engineering teams across locations.
• Experience growing a company into enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for the platform end-to-end, including multi-channel real-time messaging and CRM-as-system-of-record.
• Stay hands-on with architecture and guide engineers through design and deep-dives.
• Be the buck-stops-here owner of technical direction and push back when needed.
• Drive AI roadmap and ship production-ready AI systems with reliability and guardrails.
• Connect engineering to business outcomes and collaborate with GTM and Product.
• Lead and retain a high-performing distributed engineering org with autonomous squads.
• Scale architecture for reliability, security, and performance at scale.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI product

Architectural design

Distributed teams

Business alignment

Job description

Own the technical vision and architecture for the platform end-to-end: multi-channel real-time messaging, CRM-as-system-of-record, and AI orchestration.

Stay hands-on with architecture — guide engineers through system design, whiteboard sessions, and technical deep-dives.

Act as a true technical peer to the founder & CEO: own the hard calls, push back when a decision is wrong, and be the buck-stops-here owner of technical direction.

Drive AgentFlow and our AI roadmap: ship dependable LLM/agentic systems to production, and own evals, reliability, and guardrails, not just demos.

Connect engineering to business outcomes: prioritize the roadmap around revenue, retention, and adoption, working shoulder-to-shoulder with GTM and Product.

Lead, grow, and retain a high-performing, distributed engineering org: set up squads and engineering managers to run with autonomy and reduce key-person dependency.

Scale our architecture upmarket — reliability, security, multi-tenancy, and performance as we grow into mid-market and enterprise.

Skills and Qualifications

8+ years of engineering experience with a track record of managerial experience, who has owned technical direction as the final decision-maker, not someone who defers upward.

Product and commercial mindset: you don't reason from engineering alone. You connect technical decisions to business outcomes and prioritize accordingly, and you've worked shoulder-to-shoulder with GTM and Product.

Hands-on architect: you still go deep on system design and can whiteboard our kind of problem. You may not write production code day-to-day, but you guide engineers through architecture, whiteboard sessions, and technical brainstorming. Not a pure people-manager three years removed from the code.

Production AI experience: you've genuinely built with AI and shipped LLM/agentic systems to production, not just prototyped them. You understand evals, reliability, and guardrails, and you know how building an AI product differs from regular software: testing for accuracy and quality of AI output, not just whether it works.

Experience building and retaining a distributed engineering team across multiple locations.

Has helped scale a company through rapid growth and knows what it takes to evolve a fast-built product into something enterprise-grade e.g., reliability, security, and performance at scale.

What We Offer

Real ownership and authority: This is a buck-stops-here seat — you'll own the technical vision and run engineering your way, with the freedom and autonomy to build, structure, and lead your teams without constant intervention.

Building a world-class AI product at real scale. You'll build and ship AI that thousands of companies across 100+ countries rely on every single day.

An exceptionally sizeable equity stake. We're offering a significant share option package, unusually large even for a growth-stage startup so you share meaningfully in the upside you help create.

A genuine seat at the table. You'll partner directly with our founder and leadership team as a true peer, shaping company direction, not just executing it.

Flexible work-from-home and "Work From Anywhere" scheme

A fun, diverse, and international team culture — and many more perks and growth opportunities