Chief Technology Officer

Series Entertainment is looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead and scale the technical organization behind our next generation of AI-powered entertainment experiences.

Series sits in a unique position between startup velocity and operational maturity. We are a well-capitalized, revenue-generating company with live products and growing teams, while still operating with the speed, ownership, and innovation mindset of a builder-led organization. This role is ideal for a leader who thrives in an environment where foundational decisions still matter and execution has immediate product impact.

The CTO role is primarily a strategic and organizational leadership position. While remaining technically credible and occasionally hands-on, the core responsibility is building strong engineering leadership, setting technical direction, and ensuring our teams are operating at the leading edge of modern development — particularly in AI-enabled workflows.

Reporting to the CEO (currently serving as Interim CTO), this leader will help define how AI transforms the creation of games and interactive entertainment. A central focus will be helping shape and scale Series’ emerging user-generated content and creator platform (RUN) — enabling creators to build games, narrative experiences, and interactive media using AI-powered tools.

The ideal candidate is a strategic technologist and pragmatic operator: someone who elevates teams, modernizes technical approaches, and brings clear perspective on how the next generation of content platforms should be built.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

Technical Leadership \& Strategy

• Define and evolve the company’s technical vision in alignment with Series’ AI-first product strategy.
• Establish scalable architecture and engineering practices that support rapid experimentation and long-term growth.
• Act as a technical thought partner to the CEO and executive team.
• Bring informed perspective on the future of creator tools, UGC ecosystems, and AI-assisted content development.

People \& Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and scale a multidisciplinary engineering organization through strong technical leadership layers.
• Coach engineering managers and tech leads in running effective, high-performing teams.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Help elevate technical excellence across the company, not just within engineering.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Operations leadership to align technical execution with product goals.
• Translate product vision into realistic technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Ensure strong communication and shared ownership across departments.

AI Innovation \& Thought Leadership

• Drive adoption of modern AI tools and workflows across engineering and adjacent disciplines.
• Help teams stay current with rapidly evolving AI capabilities and apply them pragmatically.
• Guide experimentation while maintaining product quality and operational stability.
• Act as a thought leader internally on how AI reshapes development velocity and creative possibility.

Execution \& Operational Excellence

• Improve engineering processes, planning, and delivery predictability.
• Balance speed, quality, and technical sustainability in a startup environment.
• Support hiring strategy and help attract world-class technical talent.

What You Bring to the Table

• 10\+ years of experience in software engineering, including senior leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams through growth and organizational scaling.
• Strong track record as a people manager and organizational builder, not solely a technical IC.
• Experience operating as a strategic technology leader within startup or high-growth environments
• Clear point of view on how AI will transform software and content creation workflows
• Experience introducing modern tooling, processes, or platform shifts that materially improved team effectiveness
• Strong communication skills and ability to align technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, startup-style environment with evolving priorities.

Bonus Points for:

• Experience in games, interactive entertainment, or creator platforms.
• Experience building or scaling UGC or platform ecosystems.
• Experience building AI-enabled consumer products.
• Prior CTO or VP Engineering experience at a startup or scaling company.
• Experience leading distributed or global engineering teams.
• Public technical thought leadership (talks, writing, open-source contributions, etc.).