Chief Technology Officer

Founding CTO | Enterprise AI | New York Kadence is partnering with a leading investment firm to appoint the Founding CTO of a new enterprise agentic AI company. The business is building a platform to help organizations understand how work is carried out, identify opportunities to improve and automate processes, and turn those insights into useful AI-enabled tools. There is a working product and early customer interest. The CTO will take ownership of the technical direction, develop the product into an enterprise-ready platform and build the founding engineering team. The opportunity This is a true technical co-founder role. Working closely with the founding CEO and incubation team, you will: Define the technical architecture, product roadmap and engineering strategy. Build and develop the product from its current stage into a scalable enterprise platform. Remain hands-on during the early stages, particularly across the most important architectural and product decisions. Work directly with design partners to understand their workflows and translate real customer needs into technical solutions. Establish the approach to AI evaluation, security, privacy, reliability and enterprise deployment. Recruit and lead the early engineering team while creating a strong technical culture. The technical challenge brings together applied AI, workflow intelligence, high-volume event data and automation. The platform will need to operate effectively within complex enterprise environments while handling sensitive workplace data in a secure and trusted way. What we are looking for We are looking for a deeply technical builder with the ambition and judgement to become a genuine co-founder. The strongest candidates are likely to bring a combination of: Experience building AI-native products, agentic systems, developer tools, workflow platforms or enterprise automation products. Strong architecture and engineering fundamentals across scalable systems, data infrastructure and production AI. Experience with native or desktop applications, event-driven systems, on-device processing or other resource-constrained environments. A track record of taking products from an early prototype into reliable production use. The ability to work closely with customers and translate ambiguous business problems into focused technical decisions. Experience hiring and leading engineers while remaining close to the product and code. Genuine appetite for the ownership, pace and ambiguity of a zero-to-one company. New York is strongly preferred, with an in-person approach expected during the formative stages of the business. If you would be open to a confidential conversation, please contact Harry Sliufko at Kadence or send across your latest CV.