Technology chief
The Role
This is a builder and researcher role combined. You'll own everything technical — architecture decisions, development velocity, integration quality, and the ongoing research that keeps CMOgpt's AI capabilities ahead of what competitors can ship.
You'll work directly with the founder and PM to translate product requirements into reliable, scalable features. But you'll also be the person who brings back what you're seeing in the AI tooling landscape — new models, new APIs, new approaches to data analysis and agent behaviour — and tells us what matters and what doesn't.
This suits someone who is comfortable operating across the full stack, genuinely excited by applied AI (not just the hype), and wants to shape a product from the ground up rather than inherit someone else's architecture.
What You'll Own
Product Development Build and maintain the core CMOgpt plugin — feature development, bug fixes, performance, and reliability. You own the codebase. You make the calls on architecture, tooling, and technical debt.
AI & Agentic Capabilities Design and evolve the AI layer: prompt architecture, tool use, data pipelines, agent behaviour, and the logic that turns raw Shopify metrics into prescriptive recommendations. Stay close to what Anthropic is releasing and know how to apply it before our competitors do.
Technology Research Systematically evaluate emerging tools, models, APIs, and approaches relevant to our stack — particularly in LLM tooling, ecommerce data infrastructure, and analytics automation. Bring back a clear point of view on what we should adopt, pilot, or ignore.
Platform Integrations Own the technical integrations that power CMOgpt — Shopify APIs, data connectors, Claude MCP tooling, and any third-party analytics or attribution platforms we connect to. Reliability and data accuracy are non-negotiable.
Technical Strategy As we approach a raise, you'll help define our technical roadmap for investors: what we've built, why it's defensible, and where we're going. You'll be the voice of technical credibility in those conversations.
Documentation & Standards Maintain clear internal documentation — architecture decisions, integration specs, known limitations. Small team, so written clarity is how we move fast without stepping on each other.
What You'll Get
Equity stake — ground-floor ownership in a platform with genuine early traction and a clear investor path
Direct access to the founder — Andrew is a fractional CMO actively embedded in multiple Shopify businesses; the product problems are real and the operator context is unfiltered
Technical autonomy — no committee architecture reviews; you own the stack and make the calls
Portfolio-defining role — from MVP to investor raise, you'll have built the platform that got us there
Flexibility — async-first, output-focused; we don't count hours