Chief Technology Officer (New York)

CTO Mudita Studios

Driving AI-Native Venture Building Across Our Portfolio

Mudita Studios is an AI-first venture studio that builds, acquires, and scales B2B SaaS companies. We are looking for a CTO to architect, ship, and scale the next generation of AI-enabled products across our portfolio. This role owns technical strategy, system architecture, delivery cadence, and engineering quality across multiple ventures simultaneously.

What Youll Lead

End-to-end technical ownership across 610 portfolio companies (01 builds, rapid prototyping, scale-up hardening).

Product architecture, core platform decisions, and AI integration strategy (agents, RAG, workflow automation, connectors).

Roadmapping and prioritization with each venture CEO (wedge, sequencing, MVP scoping, versioning).

Engineering execution : sprint structure, velocity management, code quality, and release discipline.

Technical diligence for acquisitions (fractional CFO firms, ops consultancies) and post-acquisition modernization.

Enterprise-grade implementation patterns for Fortune 500 clientsconnecting our portfolio tools into real workflows.

Stand up a high-leverage engineering organization (internal team + nearshore / offshore pods + contractors).

Security, compliance, and data architecture for AI systems (SOC2 workflows, PII handling, provenance, observability).

Ideal Background

10+ years building and shipping software products; experience as CTO, Head of Engineering, or Principal Architect.

Strong command of modern AI tooling : OpenAI agents, LLM apps, vector stores, RAG, LangChain / LlamaIndex, n8n / Zapier orchestration.

Proven ability to build from zero while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability, documentation, and security.

Experience managing multi-product engineering portfolios or consulting teams delivering across different clients.

Comfortable switching between hands-on execution and high-level architecture in the same week.

Bonus : experience in FP&A, workflow automation, consulting tech, or vertical SaaS.

The Person Who Thrives Here

Operates with urgency and discipline; ships MVPs in weeks, not quarters.

Loves building systems, templates, and repeatable engineering playbooks.

Treats AI as a force multiplierknows how to turn 5 engineers into 25 via tooling and automation.

Communicates crisply with non-technical founders and can translate business strategy into engineering priorities.

Why This Role Matters

Mudita Studios is building a portfolio of AI-native businesses that each solve deep operational problems in finance, talent, operations, and industry-specific workflows. The CTO defines how these companies are built, how quickly they scale, and how reliably they deliver results to enterprise clients.

Compensation

Competitive base + meaningful equity across the venture portfolio + performance upside.

If youre excited by multi-company technical leadership, rapid 01 product cycles, and building an AI-powered studio that ships at Fortune-500 quality, wed love to talk.

DM me or emailkayan@muditastudios.com.