2h ago

Field CTO - Media & Entertainment

San Francisco

$295k-$365k / year

full-timelead Remoteai-ml

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll serve as the de facto Head of Engineering for the Media & Entertainment vertical, partnering with CTOs and CIOs to turn their organizations into AI-Native Tech Platforms. You'll own the end-to-end technical strategy for lighthouse deals, bridging cutting-edge AI infrastructure with real-world business goals. This role offers genuine influence over product direction and platform strategy at a fast-growing AI cloud infrastructure company.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Own end-to-end technical strategy for lighthouse deals
  • Translate infrastructure decisions into business impact for executives
  • Uncover technical truth behind vague business goals
  • Identify and technically validate ISV relationships
  • Chair quarterly M&E Product Summit with engineering leadership

📋 Requirements

  • 10+ years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems
  • Executive presence to command a room of engineers and C-Suite
  • Production-grade expertise in GPU architectures, Kubernetes, parallel file systems, networking
  • Inference optimization expertise in batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, latency tradeoffs

✨ Nice to Have

  • Industry fluency in Gaming, Multimodal Generative Models, AdTech, or VFX
  • Product-minded leadership with platform strategy experience
  • Ability to distinguish between bare-metal vs. managed endpoint needs

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🏖️ Flexible remote work environment
  • 💰 Equity compensation
  • 🩺 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision for employees and families
  • 👶 20 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers
  • 📱 $85/month remote work reimbursement for mobile and internet
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