Chief Technology Officer

Taistit is building the world’s first video review engine, turning everyday opinions into short, entertaining, and trustworthy AI video stories people actually watch and share. We’re a pre-seed, Seattle-based team looking for a Founding CTO to architect our core AI video pipeline, ship V1 fast, and help define a new category at the intersection of AI, creators, and culture. If you’re an AI-native builder who wants real ownership, creative freedom, and the chance to change how people decide how to spend their money by reinventing video reviews in a space that hasn’t changed in 15 years, let’s talk.

• Architect and build our full AI video pipeline (LLMs, TTS, avatars, video generation).
• Rapidly prototype and ship V1 — we’re moving fast toward launch.
• Build scalable infrastructure and a delightful consumer experience.
• Partner with the CEO on product vision, roadmap, and go-to-market.
• Hire and lead our early engineering team as we grow.

• Experience building and shipping AI products, ideally involving video or generative media.
• Zero-to-one mentality — you love creating, not maintaining.
• Product sense + excitement for consumer experiences and storytelling.
• Ambitious, resourceful, and hungry to build something iconic from day one.

• Massive untouched space: 50B+ reviews per year that no one has turned into video.
• Perfect timing: AI + UGC + short-form video is a rocket ship.
• Huge ownership:
  Founding role with meaningful equity.
• Cultural + technical challenge: A brand meets AI in a way no one’s done yet.
• Build something that could change how people trust, discover, and buy online.

• Scrappy and technically fearless
• Design and UX-conscious
• Excited about culture, creators, and storytelling
• Hungry to build something new
• Energized by speed, autonomy, and big creative ideas
• Passionate about AI as a medium for expression