Series Entertainment - CTO

• What You’ll Be Responsible For • Technical Leadership & Strategy • Define and evolve the company’s technical vision in alignment with Series’ AI-first product strategy. • Establish scalable architecture and engineering practices that support rapid experimentation and long-term growth. • Act as a technical thought partner to the CEO and executive team. • Bring informed perspective on the future of creator tools, UGC ecosystems, and AI-assisted content development. • People & Organizational Leadership • Lead, mentor, and scale a multidisciplinary engineering organization through strong technical leadership layers. • Coach engineering managers and tech leads in running effective, high-performing teams. • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Help elevate technical excellence across the company, not just within engineering. • Cross-Functional Partnership • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Operations leadership to align technical execution with product goals. • Translate product vision into realistic technical roadmaps and delivery plans. • Ensure strong communication and shared ownership across departments. • AI Innovation & Thought Leadership • Drive adoption of modern AI tools and workflows across engineering and adjacent disciplines. • Help teams stay current with rapidly evolving AI capabilities and apply them pragmatically. • Guide experimentation while maintaining product quality and operational stability. • Act as a thought leader internally on how AI reshapes development velocity and creative possibility. • Execution & Operational Excellence • Improve engineering processes, planning, and delivery predictability. • Balance speed, quality, and technical sustainability in a startup environment. • Support hiring strategy and help attract world-class technical talent. • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including senior leadership roles. • Proven experience leading engineering teams through growth and organizational scaling. • Strong track record as a people manager and organizational builder, not solely a technical IC. • Experience operating as a strategic technology leader within startup or high-growth environments • Clear point of view on how AI will transform software and content creation workflows • Experience introducing modern tooling, processes, or platform shifts that materially improved team effectiveness • Strong communication skills and ability to align technical and non-technical audiences. • Comfort working in a fast-moving, startup-style environment with evolving priorities. • Experience in games, interactive entertainment, or creator platforms. • Experience building or scaling UGC or platform ecosystems. • Experience building AI-enabled consumer products. • Prior CTO or VP Engineering experience at a startup or scaling company. • Experience leading distributed or global engineering teams. • Public technical thought leadership (talks, writing, open-source contributions, etc.).