CTO - Co-Founder, SaaS AI Field Sales Enablement - Agriculture Industry
August 2
🏡 Remote – Anywhere in California
Description
• Serve as a co-founder and executive partner to the CEO assisting in shaping company strategy and the technical vision while participating in building conviction in the market, with investors, and customers • Plan and define the architecture of the platform, and lead the creation of the MVP through hands on coding and collaboration with a team of internal or offshore developers • Collaborate with the CEO on product management strategy; mapping business value and functionality requirements into product features prioritizing to meet milestone deliverables • Manage the department budget to ensure proper allocation of funds for team growth, execution and R&D • Actively support the Sales and Customer Support teams with pre and post sales activities including demos and wireframes, stakeholder management, onboarding and technical support • Develop, build and maintain strong relationships with outside vendors to ensure deadlines are met within budget • Refine engineering architecture as the product expands to ensure security, scalability and reliability of the platform across all customers • Build, lead and grow an engineering and product team dedicated to the ongoing advancement of the SaaS product • Develop and support a culture of continuous improvement and best practices within the Engineering organization • Develop and maintain a Lean/Agile startup culture maturing with scale, and foster high level of employee motivation, performance, and commitment • Design and develop clean, scalable, and maintainable code • Work with modern languages, frameworks, and tools to build a cutting edge platform leveraging the most effective and modern technologies • Execute continuous deployment practices, including automated testing and continuous integration • Lead all aspects of technology operations, including DevOps and customer delivery
Requirements
• Demonstrated experience in building SaaS products from scratch and leading high performing engineering teams • Experience with designing and building software platforms driven by AI/ML models, data processing, and ideally voice transcription and LLM • Experience with building specialty knowledge databases and models along with integration experience with ERP/CRM systems • Solid understanding of Semantics and Ontologies as applied to database solutions preferred • Experience or exposure to solving complex problems in the agricultural field a plus but not required • 15+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on software engineering/architecture for commercial technology or technology-enabled services companies • 5+ years of experience managing or leading a software development team. Experience building and managing a team of both in-house and outsourced software developers • Familiarity with modern technologies, frameworks and tools used across the entire stack, specifically DBMS, OCR, AI, LLM and NLP, Linux, Android and iOS operating systems • Systems Design/Architecture experience with excellent understanding of building database systems combining Vector, NoSQL and RDBMS • Experience in data science or AI/ML with excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills • A customer first mentality, with a strong desire to build relationships with the end user and buyer • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience • Ability to travel as needed to meet with customers. Likely 20-25%.
Benefits
• Salary plus equity plan • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance • Flexible work location within the United States • A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook • A highly validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team • Pre-seed funding committed by our university partner sourced from industry companies • The support of the venture studio and platform services, we surround the startup with world-class expertise in every discipline required to build a market-leading company
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