Head of Technology Innovation

About the Role Zentrian is seeking a Co-Founding CTO to lead the technical vision of an AI-powered smarthome intelligence platform. You'll own the full technical architecture, drive product development, and build out the engineering team as we scale from pre-seed through Series A and beyond. This is a hands-on co-founder role where your technical decisions and leadership will shape how millions of properties detect anomalies, optimize energy, and manage their connected systems.

What You'll Do

Own and evolve the technical architecture across IoT, cloud, and AI/ML layers.

Lead and grow the engineering team from our current foundation.

Drive the product roadmap from a technical perspective, balancing innovation with execution.

Write code and solve critical technical problems alongside your team.

Represent the technical vision to investors, partners, and stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience with 3+ years in senior technical leadership roles.
• Strong IoT and embedded systems background with proven shipping experience.
• Cloud architecture expertise, ideally with AWS.
• AI/ML product experience applied to real-world, production systems.
• Proven 0→1 startup experience as a co-founder or early CTO—not a big-corp-only background.
• Hands-on coder who can jump into the codebase when needed, not purely a manager.
• Hardware and software crossover experience.
• Smart home, building tech, or energy management domain knowledge.
• German or Spanish language skills.

Compensation & Benefits

Co-founding equity up to 5% (earn-in structure).

Competitive fixed salary, discussed case by case.

Location

Primarily based in Mallorca, Spain, with strong ties to Munich.