Chief Technology Officer

The Role

As our Chief Technology Officer, you will define and drive the technical vision and strategy for Funnel. This is a hands-on technical leadership position, not a purely managerial role. You will shape our architecture, stay deeply connected to the details, and set the standard for technical excellence across our organization.

You will lead an engineering organization of approximately 60 engineers and 6 Engineering Managers focused on building the next generation of marketing data infrastructure. You will report directly to the CEO and Co-Founder, Fredrik Skantze, be part of the management team, and work closely with our product, design, and data science organizations to make technology a driving force behind our product vision.

What You'll Do

• Build data products that solve our customers’ problems
• Define and evolve the technical strategy and architecture for our data platform, ensuring we remain at the cutting edge of modern data infrastructure and continue the evolution to an agentic architecture and AI native product experience
• Lead technical hiring and team development, building a world-class engineering organization that attracts and retains the best talent
• Drive AI-first development practices
• Collaborate closely with product and design to translate business and experience vision into technical roadmaps and implementation plans
• Set the tone for technical excellence, architectural rigor, and a culture of continuous learning and innovation
• Engage hands-on with key technical challenges, design reviews, architecture decisions, and complex problem-solving
• Lead IPO readiness initiatives, ensuring our engineering practices, security, and compliance meet enterprise standards

What We Are Looking For

• You have hands-on experience designing and building distributed systems at scale in production. Ideally, with best-in-class open source technologies.
• Agentic AI fluency and interest, both from building an AI-first product experience and new ways of working in development teams.
• Staff Engineer-level technical credibility. You have earned the respect of senior engineers and can lead by example through technical depth and architectural thinking
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in modern data platforms and the modern data stack
• Background in data science and machine learning
• Rust programming experience. We use Rust extensively in our data infrastructure.
• Adtech or martech domain knowledge
• Experience in preparing a company for IPO. You understand the regulatory, operational, and organizational shifts required.

About Funnel

Funnel operates at scale at the intersection of data and marketing. We process 11% of the world’s marketing data, using data engineering, machine learning, and AI to turn it into clear, actionable datasets and insights.

Our platform architecture draws inspiration from the modern data stack leaders like Databricks and Snowflake, but is purpose-built for the unique needs of marketing teams. We leverage cutting-edge open source components, including Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Apache Iceberg, to deliver a best-in-class data experience.

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