Chief Technology Officer (New York)

Job Description:

This hands-on CTO opportunity is focused on leading product architecture, engineering execution, and early team building for an AI platform in healthcare payments and revenue cycle operations. The role will drive development from MVP to a scalable commercial product, with emphasis on workflow automation, data integrations, secure infrastructure, and AI-enabled operational intelligence. Ideal candidates bring deep technical leadership and the ability to build quickly in a complex, regulated domain.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Our client is looking for an exceptional CTO (This is not an advisory CTO role, but hands-on) to lead technology, product architecture, and engineering execution for a new AI healthcare payments company


• This is a funded, early-stage venture built around a high-conviction thesis at the intersection of healthcare, payments, revenue cycle, and AI. The company is focused on improving complex financial workflows across the healthcare ecosystem, including provider-payer payment processes, claims workflows, revenue cycle operations, payment reconciliation, denials, and administrative automation


• This is not an advisory CTO role. We are looking for a hands‑on technical leader who can build the product, architect the platform, recruit the early engineering team, and move quickly from MVP to scalable commercial product


• The company is developing an AI-enabled healthcare payments application designed to improve how healthcare organizations manage payment, claims, and revenue‑cycle workflows


• The platform will use AI, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure infrastructure to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, accelerate payment processes, and create better visibility across healthcare financial operations


• Areas of focus may include


• Claims and payment workflow automation


• Provider-payer financial operations


• Revenue cycle and reimbursement workflows


• Denials, reconciliation, and payment exceptions

MUST HAVES

• 0-to-1 Product Development | Software Architecture | AI/ML & Automation | Healthcare Payments/RCM/FinTech | Engineering Leadership


• 10 Years of experience


• Bachelor's degree


• Experience building products from zero to one


• Former founder or early technical leadership experience (Not Required)


• Experience in top-tier engineering environments, high-growth startups, or complex technical organizations (think 1-2 years with Palantir in a Health Tech role)


• Interest or experience in healthcare, payments, fintech, revenue cycle, or healthcare infrastructure


• Healthcare payments experience is strongly preferred, but not required if the candidate has strong technical leadership experience in a regulated, data-heavy, workflow-heavy, or transaction-oriented environment


• Ability to personally build while also recruiting and leading an engineering team

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING:

• The company is developing an AI-enabled healthcare payments application designed to improve how healthcare organizations manage payment, claims, and revenue‑cycle workflows.


• The platform will use AI, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure infrastructure to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, accelerate payment processes, and create better visibility across healthcare financial operations.

AREAS OF FOCUS:

• Claims and payment workflow automation


• Provider-payer financial operations