Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO) in B2B SaaS AI Startup - Permanent or Interim

Das ist der Job

We serve over 250 enterprise customers across Europe, have grown ARR 4x year‑over‑year, and are profitable.

Darum lohnt es sich

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 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 G