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Opportunity · BG-US-CTO-05

Chief Technology Officer

FinTech · Creator Economy · AI Payments · New York · US$300,000 base + equity + LTIP + bonus

8
Candidates scored
1
Qualified
91
Top match
2
Calls booked
Matched candidates— scored by the matching engine
91
/100
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Sarah ChenQualified
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Call booked
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Priya Raman
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Qualified
62
/100
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Elena Novak
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Call booked
62
/100
JW
James Wu
Chief Executive · US
New
56
/100
AK
Aisha Khan
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New
39
/100
DO
David Okoro
Managing Director · US
Qualified
34
/100
MB
Marcus Bell
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Agreed terms
34
/100
TF
Tom Fraser
Chief Operating Officer · EMEA
New
The role
  • Define the group technology strategy and build enterprise-scale architecture.
  • Lead AI engineering and create secure payment infrastructure.
  • Develop cloud-native financial platforms and recruit world-class engineering teams.
  • Work closely with product, commercial and investor leadership.
  • Establish governance and engineering excellence; support rapid international expansion.
Ideal candidate
  • Previous CTO or Founder CTO experience with a strong FinTech background.
  • Payments architecture experience and AI / cloud engineering expertise.
  • Enterprise software leadership with a commercial mindset.
  • Experience scaling high-growth technology businesses.
  • Degree qualified; consumer-facing financial platforms at scale advantageous.
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