Field CTO
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Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems • Executive presence — able to command a room of engineers and present a layered technical roadmap to a C-Suite • Product-minded leadership — experience defining platform strategy, not just executing tickets; comfortable telling a customer "no" and proposing a better alternative • Deep, production-grade expertise in GPU architectures (H100 vs. L40s), Kubernetes orchestration, high-performance parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre, WEKA), and networking constraints (InfiniBand/Ethernet) • Inference optimization expertise — deep understanding of model serving nuances including batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, and latency tradeoffs for both massive throughput and real-time (sub-50ms) demands • Industry fluency in at least two of the following M&E sub-sectors: Gaming, Multimodal Generative Models, AdTech, or VFX • Ability to distinguish between customers who need raw bare-metal access and those who need managed endpoints — and the wisdom to prescribe the right path • Key Success Drivers • You thrive in environments where requirements are evolving — you don't wait for a roadmap, you build it • You view constraints as puzzles to solve, not reasons to stop • You are not satisfied with surface-level answers — you dig into the kernel, the logs, and the P&L to find the truth • You lead with credibility and earn trust with both engineers and executives equally • You bring entrepreneurial grit and a strong sense of ownership to everything you do
Responsibilities
• Executive Technical Partnership • Own the end-to-end technical strategy for lighthouse deals — including Agency Global Hold Co data consolidation projects and AAA Studio infrastructure migrations — engineered to survive real-world scale, not just pass a POC • Fluently translate infrastructure decisions (e.g., data lake locality, storage tiering) into direct business impact for executive stakeholders, connecting the physics of the stack to the P&L • Forensic Requirement Gathering • Go beyond the stated problem to uncover the technical truth — translating vague business goals (e.g., "We need lower ad costs") into precise engineering requirements (e.g., "Optimize inference batch size on L40s to reduce cost-per-token by 30%") • Identify exactly where each customer sits on the curve from Service Bureau to Tech Platform, and prescribe the specific infrastructure intervention needed to move them forward • Ecosystem & ISV Strategy • Identify, court, and technically validate relationships with the most critical ISVs in the media landscape • Define reference architectures for how key tools run optimally on the platform — not just "support" them, but set the standard • Internal Influence • Internal Influence • Chair a quarterly M&E Product Summit with Core Engineering leadership, using forensic field evidence to prioritize and justify the vertical roadmap • Drive alignment between field learnings and internal product and engineering priorities • Team Leadership • Team Leadership • Direct engineering teammates to build the right things at the right time, including high-leverage assets such as scalable quick-start reference architectures (e.g., "Deploying Llama-405B for Ad Copy Creation")
Benefits
• On Target Earnings $295K – $365K • Offers Equity • Medical, dental, vision; 401(k); PTO; Mobile & internet stipend • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Our client for this position cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time and can only consider candidates who are currently fully authorized to work in the U.S., e.g. U.S. citizens or Green Card holders. • Please provide your country/state of tax residency. This information is required for proper tax withholding and compliance. • What aspects of your background and experience do you believe make you a strong fit for this role? • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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