About the Role
Artsy and Artnet have combined to create the world’s largest online art marketplace and information platform. We are looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead the combined engineering organization through a period of ambitious growth and technological transformation, retooling how the organization builds software and ensuring products are designed for the future.
Responsibilities
- Lead the adoption of AI-augmented development workflows across the engineering organization.
- Mentor engineers, product managers, designers, and business operators in new ways of working.
- Build on the team’s existing foundation of modern tooling, agile practices, and continuous delivery.
- Establish the org as an industry reference point for how modern technology teams operate at the intersection of AI and product development.
- Assess which elements of our platform represent durable competitive advantages and which are at risk of being commoditized or disrupted by AI.
- Develop a technical strategy for the agentic future.
- Identify where we are underinvested, in data, infrastructure, APIs, or capabilities, and build the roadmap to close those gaps.
- Ensure our architecture is modular and adaptable.
- Unify two legacy technology platforms into a coherent, modern architecture.
- Make pragmatic, high-conviction decisions about what to consolidate, what to rebuild, and what to retire.
- Bring together engineers from both organizations into integrated, mission-driven teams.
- Own the company’s security and infrastructure posture.
- Maintain rigorous standards for data integrity, system resilience, and platform trust.
- Be the company’s scout on the technology frontier, constantly canvassing the market for emerging capabilities.
- Serve as a key voice in the company’s product roadmap process.
- Bring a data-driven and marketplace-native understanding of the infrastructure that powers discovery, pricing, transactions, and logistics.
- Make the product organization smarter by expanding the menu of options they’re choosing from.
Requirements
- Led engineering organizations through periods of significant change: post-acquisition integration, rapid scaling, or fundamental retooling.
- Real, hands-on experience integrating AI into engineering workflows.
- Strong technical architect to evaluate solutions and explain why to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bias toward speed; know how to set an aggressive tempo, clear obstacles, and create a culture where shipping is the default.
- Bring a sense of urgency to the work; don't let decisions linger or projects drift.
- Think critically about moats and defensibility, and connect engineering investments to business outcomes.
- Comfortable in conversations about revenue, margin, and growth.
- Take security and infrastructure seriously, particularly as AI introduces new categories of risk.
Skills
- AI-augmented development workflows
- AI fluency
- Modern tooling
- Agile practices
- Continuous delivery
- Continuous experimentation
- Technical strategy
- Modular and adaptable architecture
- Security
- Infrastructure
- Data integrity
- System resilience
- Platform trust
- Emerging capabilities
- Product roadmap process
- Data-driven understanding
- Marketplace-native understanding
- AI
- Two-sided marketplace platforms
- Art world
- Luxury goods
- Cultural industries
- Technical cofounder
- Early-stage CTO
Location
- New York
- London
- East Coast Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Chief Technology Officer
- Senior leadership team
Salary/Compensations
- $300,000-$350,000 annually (NYC)
- £200,000-250,000 annually (London)
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in the combined entity
- Competitive health benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program featuring free mental health support
- 401k
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Health savings accounts (HSA)
- Financial wellness support & resources
About the Company
- Artsy and Artnet have combined to create the world’s largest online art marketplace and information platform.
- Together, we connect collectors, galleries, auction houses, and institutions across a global market valued at over $60 billion.
- Our products serve both the art world’s largest institutions and individual collectors – supporting art discovery, research and transactions.
- The combined company brings together the broadest customer base in the online art market, uniquely valuable proprietary data, a proven team, and new velocity as a combined organization.
- We believe the rapid evolution of AI will reshape not just how we build our products, but how our users interact with them.
- Artsy has five core values: For the Love of Art, Own Our Outcomes, Lead with Openness, Transform Together, Impact Over Perfection.
Equal Opportunity
- Artsy is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status.
