Chief Technology Officer
Civis Analytics
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $225,000 - $325,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed Systems
About the role
- Be the tech voice within our senior leadership team and guide decision-making and business planning as we scale;
- Own and drive Civis’s technical roadmap across both the Civis Platform and emerging AI products, ensuring alignment, cohesion, and long-term scalability
- Lead architecture decisions across platform, data, and AI systems, balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability
- Act as a player–coach: stay close to systems, technical tradeoffs, and delivery while empowering teams to execute independently. Guide the organization toward an AI-centric product and development environment, including tooling, workflows, and engineering practices
- Lead and integrate a cross-functional team spanning product, engineering, data, and AI, while serving as a visible, hands-on leader and magnet for technical talent as the organization grows (approximately 15 people initially).
- Provide thought leadership within the company; research and evaluate cutting-edge practices and enabling technologies for internal adoption; assess potential partnerships and acquisitions;
- Be the public face of Civis technology and data science; network, evangelize, and form relationships with press and peer organizations; participate in high-level sales meetings; and give back to the community.
Requirements
- Practical, real-world experience working with AI systems and understanding their application in production environments - beyond theory or research
- Significant experience leading software, platform, or data engineering organizations in a hands-on leadership capacity
- Demonstrated ability to own and evolve technical roadmaps across multiple product lines or platforms
- Experience making architectural decisions for complex, data-driven systems
- Comfort getting into the technical weeds when needed to unblock teams or resolve critical issues
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and manage high-performing technical teams
- Clear, direct communication style and comfort making and standing behind difficult technical decisions
- Familiarity with building and scaling AI products in production
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and distributed systems
- Authorization to work in the United States.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AI systemssoftware engineeringplatform engineeringdata engineeringtechnical roadmap developmentarchitectural decision-makingcloud platformsdistributed systemsdata-driven systems
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationteam managementproblem-solvingdecision-makingthought leadershipnetworkingempowermenthands-on leadership