Chief Technology & Product Officer

Billd is a fast-growing fintech company looking to disrupt a $1.5 trillion industry. We offer first-of-its-kind, industry-leading financial and technology products to empower our customers, commercial subcontractors. We believe in championing the underdog because no one else does.

You will be challenged to bring your best self to Billd and guaranteed to have the most professionally rewarding experiences of your career. We pride our team on being focused, relentless, and driven, but never take ourselves too seriously and love having fun. At Billd, AI is central to how we build and operate. We’re looking for people who are energized by AI and want to be at the forefront of AI adoption.

As a rapidly growing company, we offer several opportunities for internal growth and career development. We’re committed to the motivated professionals that work at Billd, but don’t just take our word for it. Check out our 4.3 Glassdoor rating to see what our team has to say about working here.

But the praise doesn’t stop there. Some of our awards include:

• 4x Top Private Companies award winner (Austin Business Journal)
• 4x Fastest Growing Companies award winner (Austin Business Journal)
• 4x Top Technology Firm (Construction Executive Magazine)
• 2x Top Tech Employer in Austin (Austin Business Journal)
• 2x Best Places to Work (Forbes, Built In)
• 1x Best CEO Nomination (Austin Business Journal)
• 1x Top 10 Startups in Austin (Linked In)

This role is based at our Austin, TX headquarters. Our team works in office together, with added flexibility available through our work-from-home allowance. Our dog-friendly office features a fully stocked kitchen, on-site fitness room, and hosts quarterly company-wide team events. This role is not eligible for fully remote work.

Billd is looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead our combined Product and Technology team and join the executive team. We are well into our AI transformation as a company, and our development team is AI-first. Our vision is “building new financial and technology products to empower subcontractors to do the best work of their lives.” As CTO, you will own the technology and product strategy behind that vision, including the platform that powers Material Financing, Pay App Advance, Flex Line, and Predictable Pay, and you will build it hands-on alongside that nimble, talented, AI-first team.

Reporting to the CEO, you will lead product, engineering, Salesforce, QA, and IT, and partner closely with the GM of Financial Products.

Success in this role looks like a highly capable Product and Technology team that punches above its weight, deploying products our customers love and use every day.

The ideal candidate is a technology executive with deep fintech and AI experience who thinks strategically but also gets into the details. You will make the hard engineering and architecture calls yourself, and as a member of the executive team you will help lead the next growth phase of our business. You spend time with customers to understand where technology can open new business opportunities, you treat security and compliance as part of the architecture, and you enjoy developing the people around you.

• Serve on the executive team and help lead the next growth phase of the business, contributing to company strategy and reporting on technology to the Board as needed.
• Set Billd’s technology and product strategy and own the roadmap in partnership with the executive team.

• Lead the next stage of Billd’s AI transformation, both in how we build software and in the products and tools our customers and teams use every day.
• Track emerging AI models, tools, and practices, and bring the ones that matter into…