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Founding CTO — AI-native productivity, stealth
Fully remote, UK-based candidates. London HQ likely but not yet fixed.
TL;DR
Founding CTO role at a well-funded stealth AI company
- Product: AI-native productivity — starting with email, expanding into notes, tasks, calendar
- US$100M initial funding, internally backed, no VC pressure
- Cash + meaningful founding-team equity
- Fully remote, hybrid potentially
- You'll build the engineering org from zero across multiple global hubs
The play
Email, calendar, notes, tasks. The tools 5 billion people run their lives on. None of them are AI-native. Every attempt so far has been a bolt-on — a copilot button in the corner, a summary at the top of the thread. The company is building the opposite: the proactive layer underneath, that reads context, runs long workflows, completes real tasks, and asks before it acts. First product is an AI-native email app. Cut the four hours a day the average knowledge worker spends in their inbox down to thirty minutes. Email first. Productivity suite next.
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The role, first 12 months
- Own the technical direction across model integration, data pipelines, distributed systems, and product architecture.
- Hire and shape the engineering org across global hubs.
- Set the engineering culture, standards and hiring bar.
- Balance shipping the email product fast with building for what comes after it.
Who this is for
Someone who has led high-performing engineering teams, thinks clearly about complex systems, and is genuinely energised by early-stage ambiguity. Not a corporate CTO looking for a title upgrade — a builder.
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The bar — Read this before you DM
- 10+ years engineering, 5+ leading teams at scale
- Shipped and operated a production system that served millions of users
- Built and hired an engineering org from small to 30+, across multiple locations
- Deep hands-on background in distributed systems, data pipelines, or applied ML infrastructure
- Comfortable being the most technical person in the room and the one setting the culture
If you're not hitting most of this, this isn't the one — save your energy for the role that is.
The rest
Everything else — who they are, who's behind it, the detail on comp and equity — is a call.
DM me if this is you, or if you know the person it should be.
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