Burton Recruitment Limited
Chief Technology Officer
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Location: United Kingdom | Hybrid / Flexible Highly competitive package + equity
We are partnering with a well-funded, early-stage AI company with genuinely global ambitions to appoint a Chief Technology Officer.
This is an opportunity to join the founding team at the point where some of the most important technology, architecture and organisational decisions are still to be made.
You won’t be inheriting a mature engineering organisation and simply keeping it running. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the technology, build the team, establish the engineering culture and influence the direction of the product from the ground up.
The company is building ambitious AI-native products designed for everyday global use, combining sophisticated AI capabilities with reliable, scalable software engineering.
They are looking for a technology leader who is as comfortable building and making technical decisions as they are leading people.
The Opportunity
As CTO, you will help define both the technical direction and the engineering organisation. You will:
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- Define the long-term architecture across AI systems, infrastructure and application platforms
- Make critical decisions across distributed systems, data, model integration and product architecture
- Build and scale a world-class international engineering team
- Establish engineering standards, culture and development practices
- Translate ambitious product ideas into clear technical execution
- Work closely with product, research and engineering leaders
- Balance rapid iteration with scalability, reliability and long-term quality
- Recruit and develop exceptional technical leaders and engineers
- Remain close enough to the technology to challenge assumptions and make informed architectural decisions
What We’re Looking For
We’re interested in people with:
- A strong technical foundation in large-scale and distributed systems
- Significant experience building or leading high-performing engineering organisations
- Excellent judgement around architecture and technical trade-offs
- Experience operating in high-growth, early-stage or highly dynamic environments
- The technical credibility to remain genuinely hands-on where required
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- A builder mentality and a desire to create rather than simply manage
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Previous CTO experience is valuable, but job title alone is not the deciding factor. An exceptional VP Engineering, Head of Engineering or technical founder ready to step into broader ownership could be equally relevant.
Why This Is Different
This is a rare opportunity to join a business before the technical organisation has been fully defined.
You’ll have meaningful ownership, significant influence over what gets built and how it gets built, and the opportunity to create an engineering organisation capable of supporting a product with global reach.
For the right person, this is much more than the next CTO title. It is an opportunity to help build something from its earliest stages and have a genuine stake in what it becomes.
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