Field CTO – Enterprise AI Transformation

About the Company

Our client is a frontier enterprise AI transformation company helping organizations turn AI ambition into working business systems. By combining strategic advisory with hands-on engineering and agentic execution they deliver AI solutions that create measurable business impact inside real enterprise workflows.

Operating with small highly technical teams augmented by AI agents they deliver outcomes traditionally requiring much larger consulting organizations while continuously building reusable IP that accelerates every future engagement.

• Location: Warsaw Poland (On-site)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Seniority: Executive
• Language: Fluency in Polish & English
• Work Authorization: Required for Poland

Our client is looking for a Field CTO to establish and lead its technical presence in Poland.

This is a founding leadership role combining enterprise architecture AI implementation customer engagement engineering leadership and market expansion. Youll work directly with enterprise customers own technical delivery from strategy through deployment help win new engagements and build the local engineering organization.

This is not a traditional advisory or pre-sales position youll be expected to build ship lead and deliver.

What Youll Do

• Lead end-to-end technical delivery of enterprise AI transformation projects
• Design build and deploy AI systems LLM applications and agentic workflows
• Serve as the senior technical advisor during executive meetings workshops and demonstrations
• Build mentor and scale delivery teams as customer engagements grow
• Establish engineering standards documentation and delivery best practices
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes for both technical and executive stakeholders
• Contribute reusable methodologies frameworks and IP after each engagement
• Help establish and grow the companys long-term presence in the Polish market

• 8 years of software engineering experience with strong backend full-stack or infrastructure expertise
• Previous experience as a Founder Co-Founder CTO Head of Engineering or similar technical leadership role
• Proven track record building products engineering organizations business units or technical teams from the ground up
• Experience leading enterprise implementations while remaining close to architecture and code
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies LLMs AI agents or production AI systems
• Experience across startup environments scale-ups or enterprise AI/SaaS organizations with a record of shipping real products rather than only advising
• Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams (550 people)
• Excellent communication skills in both Polish and English with confidence engaging C-level stakeholders
• High ownership urgency and ability to thrive in fast-moving ambiguous environments
• Ability to work on-site in Warsaw at least four days per week

• Experience with enterprise AI transformation forward-deployed engineering or customer-facing technical delivery
• Background in AI voice technologies SaaS or agentic systems
• Technical pre-sales or enterprise consulting experience combined with deep engineering expertise
• Cross-functional knowledge spanning product infrastructure data and delivery
• Experience working with large enterprise customers in banking telecom insurance or similar industries

• Compensation benchmarked above the Polish market
• Meaningful equity package
• Opportunity to build and lead the Polish engineering organization
• Direct collaboration with founders and executive leadership
• High ownership with significant influence on company strategy and technical direction
• Exposure to some of Europes most ambitious enterprise AI transformation projects

If youre excited to build a market lead enterprise AI transformation and shape the future of applied AI from day one wed love to hear from you...