Chief Technology Officer

CTO - MENA | AI Infrastructure & Enterprise Automation 🇦🇪

We're partnered with a global AI start-up that are expanding into the MENA region. We're helping them with their search for a Chief Technology Officer to lead that charge. This business has just announce a huge raise, with their next raise in the pipeline - extremely exciting time to join their journey 🚀

Our client is building AI-driven infrastructure that powers human-level support across chat, voice, and email. A mix of LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and multi-agent orchestration - all engineered for scale, speed, and security.

Now, as they expand into MENA, they’re looking for a hands-on technology leader to build from the ground up: the team, the architecture, the standards, and the local footprint.

You’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, AI, and enterprise integration, steering how major organisations adopt and scale applied AI.

This is greenfield, strategic, and execution-heavy. You’ll architect systems, guide enterprise discussions, and grow a high-performance technical culture across the region.

You'll get a slice of the pie too - with solid equity being offered as part of the package.

What You'll Do:

• Lead technical strategy and delivery across engineering, solutions, and customer onboarding
• Architect backend and infrastructure systems (Python, Go, Node.js, AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Oversee AI deployments - integrating LLMs, RAG, and vector search into production environments
• Define MENA-specific best practices around compliance, data governance, and uptime
• Build and mentor a local engineering and solutions team from scratch
• Partner closely with global ML and product teams to localise and optimise features for regional markets
• Act as the senior technical voice in enterprise conversations - guiding decision-makers and demonstrating the art of what’s possible

What You Bring:

• 8-12 years of software engineering and architecture experience in large-scale or distributed systems
• Proven leadership background in a technology-driven or AI-first company
• Founder mindset - previously working in successful start-ups / previous role as founder/co-founder is a big plus
• Deep understanding of Cloud Infrastructure, LLM integration & orchestration frameworks
• Fluent in Arabic and English, with strong communication and influencing ability.
• A builder’s mindset - comfortable operating in high-growth, zero-to-one environments