Chief Transformation & Technology Officer

Job Description

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.

Build and develop the product from its current stage into a scalable enterprise platform.
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.
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.

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.
The ability to work closely with customers and translate ambiguous business problems into focused technical decisions.
If you would be open to a confidential conversation, please contact Harry Sliufko at Kadence or send across your latest CV.