Ex-Founder / Ex-CTO

About the Role

This is a founding-team seat at an early-stage AI infrastructure startup building the operating layer for AI-native service businesses. The scope is deliberately open: engineering leadership, product direction, or running the operating side of the company, shaped around what you do best. If you can own a concrete first-90-days plan, the role is built around it.

What You'll Do

• Define and own a major domain, whether that is technical architecture, product strategy, or company operations, from day one.
• Work alongside the founder to set the pace and standards for the first engineering hires joining the team.
• Translate a strong founding thesis into shipped product, fast.
• For the technical leadership track: lead engineering direction, make hands-on architectural decisions, and establish the technical culture of the company.

What We're Looking For

• Has founded a venture-backed or bootstrapped company, regardless of outcome.
• Has served as CTO or first technical hire at a startup, or shipped a product a team still credits them for.
• Has run a service business and understands from the inside what AI-native operations can replace.
• Can articulate a concrete first-90-days scope and wants a role shaped around their strengths rather than a fixed job description.
• Brings the execution pace and judgment expected on a small, high-trust founding team.
• For the technical seat: sufficient hands-on depth to lead engineering direction credibly.
• Committed to working in person in San Francisco full-time.