Field CTO
Artificial Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead and scale Artificial’s forward-deployed engineering team, setting the standard for technical excellence and delivery across all client engagements.
- Act as the senior technical authority for client architecture and implementation, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with our platform principles.
- Coach, mentor, and develop engineers who operate in complex client environments whilst ensuring consistent quality, pace, and knowledge transfer.
- Translate client business requirements into technical solutions using Brossa, our proprietary domain-specific programming language.
- Work alongside brokers and underwriters to model insurance products, placement logic, and data flows on the platform.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to turn real-world feedback into roadmap priorities and design improvements.
- Define and continuously improve delivery processes, tooling, and governance for client projects.
- Represent Artificial’s technical vision to senior client stakeholders and industry audiences, including conferences and partner forums.
- Oversee integrations, proof-of-value deployments, and large-scale rollouts, ensuring successful transition from pilot to production.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing or scaling forward-deployed, solutions, or field engineering teams within enterprise software or SaaS.
- Deep technical understanding of modern architectures, APIs, and data models.
- Strong programming background and the ability to engage confidently with both engineers and executives.
- Excellent communicator who can simplify complex ideas and build trust with senior stakeholders.
- Commercially minded: you understand how technology decisions affect revenue, cost, and operational performance.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity scale-up environment.
- Organised, delivery-focused, and skilled at balancing short-term wins with long-term product vision.
- Experience in (re)insurance, InsurTech, or financial services technology.
- Experience in functional programming (e.g. Haskell, Elm, Clojure) or domain-specific languages.
- A track record of leading field or client-facing engineering teams that deliver enterprise implementations.
- Experience bridging commercial and technical functions to drive measurable outcomes.
- Public-facing technical experience — whether through thought leadership, panels, or deep technical consulting.
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Income protection insurance
- Life insurance of 4 * base salary
- On-site gym and shower facilities
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Team social events and company parties
- Salary exchange on pension and nursery fees
- Access to Maji, the financial wellbeing platform
- Milestone Birthday Bonus and a Life Events leave policy
- Company stock options managed through Ledgy
- Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidays
- Home office and equipment allowance, and a company MacBook
- Learning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take exams
- YuLife employee benefits, including EAP and bereavement helplines
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
BrossaAPIsdata modelsfunctional programmingHaskellElmClojureenterprise implementationstechnical solutionsdelivery processes
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringcoachingtrust buildingorganizational skillsdelivery-focusedcommercial mindsetsimplifying complex ideasbalancing short-term and long-term goalsoperating in ambiguity