Field CTO – Retail & Commerce AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Act as the external "CTO" representative of Nebius to Retail & Commerce AI clients, partners, and ecosystem stakeholders, fostering trust with executive counterparts.

• Collaborate with Sales leadership to secure strategic, transformative deals by leading architectural workshops and aligning technical roadmaps with customer objectives.

• Convert unique customer requirements into clear, scalable technical and product specifications for Nebius' product, engineering, and infrastructure teams.

• Enhance the sales organization’s effectiveness by developing the technical narrative, reference architectures, and training resources necessary to elevate the skills of Field SAs and Sellers.

• Promote alignment among Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and GTM teams, ensuring that the internal roadmap accurately represents market realities.

• Provide architectural insight to assist customers in maximizing the value obtained from Nebius services, while identifying essential "primitives" required for comprehensive agentic workflows.

• Recognize recurring customer challenges across agentic commerce, retail process enhancement, and data pipelines to highlight gaps in current offerings and inform roadmap decisions.

• Collaborate with ecosystem vendors (such as agentic commerce platforms, product discovery & recommendation engines, price & promotion optimization, POS systems & payment solutions, and supply chain management) to discover integration opportunities and assess potential technical M&A targets.

• Maintain organized internal feedback loops to ensure that customer insights are documented, communicated, and acted upon by R&D.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems.

• More than 5 years of experience in AI, Data Science, ML, MLOps, and complex integrations, with familiarity in production or large-scale systems.

• Previous experience in a senior technical leadership role (e.g., CTO / Technical co-founder in Retail AI-native startup, Field CTO, Head of Machine Learning, Head of Engineering).

• Dual-Competency: Comfortable designing a distributed system architecture on a whiteboard for engineers while articulating the business value of that architecture to a CEO.

• GTM Fluency: Proven experience working with Sales teams to close large-scale enterprise deals and empowering field teams with technical resources.

• Product-Minded Leadership: Experience in defining a product or platform strategy grounded in market feedback, rather than merely executing technical tasks.

• Technical Depth: Robust hands-on understanding of GPU-centric infrastructure, high-performance computing, storage systems, and networking.

• Retail Fluency: Familiarity with Retail & Commerce AI workflows, including agentic commerce, omnichannel Gen AI, product discovery & recommendation, supply chain optimization, training pipelines, and real-world deployment challenges.

• Communication: Strong executive presence, capable of influencing product teams and leadership through clarity and credibility.

• Comfort in Ambiguity: Experience functioning in dynamic environments (hyperscalers, cloud platforms, or advanced AI startups) where requirements are subject to change.

• Travel: Approximately 20–30% (for customer visits, partner engagements, and industry events).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Career advancement and learning opportunities.

• Flexibility and work-life balance.

• Collaborative and innovative culture.

• Opportunity to contribute to impactful AI projects.

• International environment and talented teams.