Chief Technology Officer

About Artsy and Artnet

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.

We are at a pivotal moment. 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. We want a technology leader who is as excited about that future as we are.

We’re looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead the combined engineering organization through a period of ambitious growth and technological transformation. This is not a maintenance role. It’s a mandate to retool how an entire organization builds software, to mentor a talented team through that transition, and to ensure that what we’re building today is designed for the world our users will inhabit tomorrow.

The right person is energized by a set of hard questions:
Which parts of our platform are durable advantages, and which will be commoditized by AI? How should we build for an agentic user who discovers and transacts through AI intermediaries rather than browsing a website? Where are we under-invested? What does a world-class engineering team look like when AI fundamentally changes how software is written?

Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll own the full technology function: engineering, infrastructure, and technical architecture. You’ll be the company’s eyes on the technology frontier, constantly scanning what’s emerging, and pressure-testing our assumptions about what’s feasible. As a key member of the senior leadership team, you’ll surface information and opportunities to help shape company direction and make the best possible strategic decisions.

Just as importantly, you’ll be a mentor and teacher to the entire organization. The transition to AI-augmented workflows isn’t just a tooling change, it’s a cultural one. We need a leader who can bring the team along, raise everyone’s capabilities, and create an environment where engineers, product managers, designers, and business operators are all fluent in what’s now possible.

Retool How We Build

• Lead the adoption of AI-augmented development workflows across the engineering organization, fundamentally increasing what the team can ship and how fast they can ship it

• Mentor engineers, product managers, designers, and business operators in new ways of working, making AI fluency a core competency across the org, not just a tooling layer for a few

• Build on the team’s existing foundation of modern tooling, agile practices, and continuous delivery to foster a culture of continuous experimentation where the team is always testing what’s newly possible and incorporating it into how they work

• Establish the org as an industry reference point for how modern technology teams operate at the intersection of AI and product development

Build for Tomorrow

• Assess which elements of our platform represent durable competitive advantages and which are at risk of being commoditized or disrupted by AI

• In close partnership with the CPO, develop a technical strategy for the agentic future: how our platform should work when users discover, research, and transact through AI agents and intermediaries rather than traditional interfaces

• Identify where we are under-invested, in data, infrastructure, APIs, or capabilities, and build the roadmap to close those gaps

• Ensure our architecture is modular and adaptable, designed to evolve quickly as both the business and the underlying technology landscape change

Drive the Technical Side of the Post-Merger Integration

• Unify two legacy technology platforms into a coherent, modern architecture that serves both brands and all customer segments

• Make pragmatic, high-conviction decisions about what to consolidate, what to…