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CTO, reporting to the CEO. This is a first-CTO hire into a Series A company that has shipped a product without a technical co-founder.
An AI-native vertical SaaS at Series A serving a high-regulatory professional vertical. Around 35 staff. The firm's product is built around a proprietary model and a curated corpus; the founder is product-led and the firm has had no technical co-founder since inception.
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CTO, reporting to the CEO. The seat is the firm's first named technical leader — the CEO has held this remit personally since founding.
Direct line management of an existing engineering bench of around 14 across product engineering, applied research, and infrastructure. Hiring four further senior engineers in the first nine months.
Strategic moment: the firm is preparing for a Series B raise within the next twelve months. The CTO is the named technical owner for that raise and for the product roadmap that underwrites it.
London-based, office-first three days per week.
This is a first-CTO hire into a Series A company that has shipped a product without a technical co-founder. The incoming CTO inherits a working codebase, a proprietary model and a curated corpus, and owns architecture, hiring and the production stack from the start. The CEO is product-led; technical direction sits with this hire. Equity, decision rights alongside a product-led CEO and the scope of technical authority are all open.
— Peter Wood, Partner & Chief Strategy Officer
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