Location: Berlin (hybrid: 3 days/week in office)
Type: Full-time
Equity: Yes: meaningful stake
Who We Are
traide AI is building the intelligence layer for global trade compliance. We serve over 250 enterprise customers across Europe, have grown ARR 4x year‑over‑year, and are profitable. We operate in regulated enterprise environments and have built a proprietary AI platform that goes beyond off‑the‑shelf LLM wrappers.
The Opportunity
We seek a decisive leader to helm engineering and product, drive execution discipline, and build the organization needed to scale.
Your Tasks
Product & Roadmap
* Own the 9–12 month product roadmap, with milestones tied to scaling.
* Establish clear product KPIs and create a data‑driven foundation for prioritization.
* Bring structure to product management: clear ownership across AI/R&D, Tech and PM functions.
* Partner with the Chief Innovation Officer on exploration; own what gets built, shipped, and scaled.
* Make decisive calls on what to build and what to cut.
Engineering Leadership
* Take over and strengthen the engineering organization, currently with 6 engineers.
* Initiate key hires: VP Engineering, Staff/Principal Engineers (Backend), Senior LLMOps Engineer.
* Introduce engineering discipline: estimation, mandatory reviews, standardized AI‑assisted development workflows.
Architecture & AI
* Drive the transition to production‑grade AI architecture.
* Standardize how AI systems are built, deployed, and monitored across all stack generations.
* Own delivery of Gen 3 (agentic LLM system).
Organizational & Cultural
* Establish clear decision‑making authority at the leadership level.
* Build a high‑trust, high‑accountability engineering culture that endures beyond your tenure.
* Collaborate with the founding team: set escalation paths, define role boundaries, resolve conflicts.
* Extend and standardize an AI‑first operating model across the company.
Who We’re Looking For
The non‑negotiables
* Leadership experience at the CTO, CPO, CTPO, or VP‑level in a high‑growth startup (permanent or interim).
* Hands‑on experience building & shipping production‑grade ML or AI systems.
* A decisive leader who navigates difficult conversations and does not wait for consensus on everything.
* Track record of scaling a team through a growth phase, with hiring, structuring, and development beyond early‑stage scrappiness.
What will set you apart
* Experience in enterprise SaaS, compliance, or regulated industries.
* Familiarity with our tech stack: GCP/Kubernetes, Python backend, TypeScript/React frontend, PostgreSQL, LLM tooling.
* Experience with AI operations at scale: LLMOps, model lifecycle management, evaluation frameworks.
Mindset
* Valuing quality and simplicity: deliver a few things well rather than many things poorly.
* A builder who gets into the weeds when necessary.
* Recognizes that organizational and technical health are intertwined.
* Motivated by creating lasting products, teams, and codebases.
What You’ll Get
* Meaningful equity stake.
* Competitive senior leadership compensation.
* Direct influence on company strategy.
* A product that truly works in a ready market.
* A founding team that is coachable, commercially strong, and committed.
* A culture that values real collaboration and team events where people know each other.
Ready to Lead the Next Chapter?
If you’ve built teams, shipped production AI, and know what it takes to elevate a company, we want to talk.
About Us
We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.
And one more thing: We’re building an AI company from the ground up. Every process, team growth, and cultural shape revolves around AI.
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