Requirements
- CTO / VP Engineering / Head of Engineering experience in a consumer mobile subscription company.
- Experience leading a team of 10+ engineers is required
- Production video/photo stack: Core Image, Metal, OpenGL ES / Vulkan, AVFoundation, MediaCodec — both mobile platforms
- Experience migrating workloads from backend to device (on-device inference, on-device video processing) with measurable unit-economics impact
- Subscription growth experience at the level of Codeway / Bending Spoons / Lightricks / Photoroom — paywall optimization, MMP attribution, post-ATT/SKAN, LTV-driven decisions
- Agentic AI / LLMs in production: you understand the difference between 'calling the OpenAI API' and building an agent system with memory, tools, and an eval loop.
- Hands-on experience with voice stacks (ASR/TTS, real-time voice agents) — required
- Management maturity: hiring, performance reviews, budgeting, cost-aware decisions, business orientation
Nice to Have
- companies of 30+ people — strong plus
- Production launch experience with an auto-edit video or voice-controlled app (Captions / Descript / Opus Clip / Submagic / CapCut-class)
- Proprietary ML models in production — fine-tuning, on-device CoreML/TFLite, model distillation
- Experience optimizing third-party AI API cost and latency (LLM, ASR, TTS) through hybridization and in-house replacements
