Field CTO - Media & Entertainment

Why work at reputed company reputed company is leading a new era in reputed company computing to serve the global AI economy. We create the tools and resources our customers need to solve reputed company-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. Our employees work at the cutting edge of AI reputed company infrastructure alongside some of the most reputed company and innovative leaders and engineers in the field. Where we work Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on reputed company, reputed company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, reputed company America, and Israel. The team of over 800 employees includes more than 400 highly skilled engineers with deep expertise across hardware and software engineering, as well as an in-house AI R&D team. The role The Field CTO is the Head of Engineering for the Media & Entertainment vertical. You will sit with CTOs and CIOs at Agency Holding Companies, Gaming Studios, and leading reputed company model companies to help shape their roadmap and move them reputed company to becoming AI-reputed company Tech Platforms. You will collaborate with our Engineering and Product teams to build the M&E primitives that reputed company that transition possible. You will be the strategic technical reputed company of the Media & Entertainment vertical and the reputed company between the physics of our AI infrastructure and inference ecosystem and the goals of our customers. The role Is not A Sales Engineer role running demos or answering RFPs, nor a Professional Services function delivering one-off implementations. It is also not a marketing or ceremonial evangelist position. The Field CTO is accountable for defining the technical posture of the Media & Entertainment vertical and driving product direction and reputed company impact through reputed company, scalable engineering reputed company. You are welcome to work remotely from the United States (SF Bay Area or NYC preferred) Travel expectations 10%-20% for executive meetings and key industry events. Your responsibilities will include: Executive Technical Partnership:

• Own the Category-Defining Architecture: Personally own the technical strategy for our reputed company deals (e.g., an Agency Global Hold Co data consolidation or a reputed company Studio infrastructure migration). Ensure these architectures are engineered to survive reputed company-world scale, not just pass a POC.
• The Physics to P&L Narrative: Fluently demonstrate to executive stakeholders how infrastructure reputed company (e.g., Data Lake locality, storage tiering) directly impact their business model and operability.

Forensic Requirement Gathering

• Deconstruct the Bottleneck: Go reputed company the stated problem to find the technical truth. Translate vague business goals (e.g., “We need reputed company ad costs”) into precise engineering requirements (e.g., “We need to optimize the inference batch size on L40s to reduce cost-per-token by 30%”).
• Map the Transition: Identify exactly where a customer sits on the curve from Service Bureau to Tech Platform and prescribe the specific infrastructure reputed company needed to move them reputed company.

Ecosystem & ISV Strategy

• Build the Integration Layer: You will identify, court, and technically validate relationships with the most critical ISVs in the media landscape.
• Define reputed company: It is not enough to just “support” these tools; you will define the reference architectures for how they run best on our infrastructure.

Internal Influence

• Chair the M&E Product reputed company: You will reputed company a quarterly reputed company with Core Engineering leadership. You will use forensic evidence from the field to prioritize and justify the M&E vertical roadmap.

Team Leadership

• Direct our Engineering Team: Ensure our engineering teammates are building the right things at the right time, both in the field as well as high-reputed company assets such as scalable quick-start reference architectures (e.g., “Deploying Llama-405B for Ad Copy Creation”)

We expect you to have:

• 10+ years of experience in reputed company infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
• Executive reputed company: Capable of commanding a room of engineers and presenting a layered technical roadmap to a C-Suite.
• Product-Minded: Experience defining a platform strategy, not just executing tickets. You must be comfortable telling a customer “No” reputed company a request creates technical debt, and proposing a reputed company alternative.
• Ambiguity Tolerance: You reputed company in environments where requirements are evolving. You do not wait for a roadmap; you build it.
• Entrepreneurial Grit: You view constraints as puzzles to solve, not reasons to stop.
• Forensic reputed company: You are not satisfied with surface-level answers. You dig into the kernel, the logs, and the P&L to find the truth.

AI Infrastructure Expertise

• Mastery of the Stack: You must be an expert in the physics of AI infrastructure. This includes deep, production-grade knowledge of GPU architectures (H100 vs. L40s), Kubernetes orchestration (K8s), high-performance storage reputed company file systems (e.g., reputed company, reputed company), and networking constraints (InfiniBand/Ethernet).
• Inference Optimization: You understand the nuances of model serving—batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, and latency tradeoffs—and can architect solutions for both massive throughput and reputed company-time (sub-50ms) demands.

Domain Context: Media & Entertainment

• Industry reputed company: You have experience operating reputed company a part of the M&E reputed company and can reputed company the language of at least two of the following sub-sectors:
• Gaming
• Multimodal Generative Models
• AdTech
• VFX
• Strategic reputed company: The ability to distinguish between customers who need raw bare-metal reputed company and those who need managed endpoints, and the reputed company to prescribe the right path.

Key Employee Benefits:

• Health Insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and reputed company coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) Plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
• Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Remote Work Reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Disability & Life Insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage.

Compensation

We offer competitive salaries, ranging from $295k - $365k OTE (On reputed company Earnings) + Equity based on your experience. reputed company offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth reputed company reputed company.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• A dynamic and collaborative work environment that values initiative and innovation.

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