Chief Technology Officer

**Founding Chief Technology Officer (CTO)** **10% Equity \| PropTech \+ AI \| Founding Team** **The Opportunity** **We are assembling the founding team behind a new company designed to challenge one of the largest and most established consumer industries in America.** **We aren’t ready to publicly share everything we’re building.** **But we can share the thesis:** **AI is about to dramatically change the economics of selling a home. We intend to be ahead of that change.** **We are building a national real estate platform that combines AI\-powered listing technology, transparent flat\-fee services, and an optional layer of in\-person support into a fundamentally different consumer experience.** **Not another lead\-generation company.** **Not another CRM.** **Not another slightly cheaper version of a traditional brokerage.** **Something different.** **And we’re looking for the Founding CTO who wants to build it with us.** **Why This Is Interesting** **Most startups entering real estate eventually encounter the same problem:** **They can build the technology.** **They can raise money.** **They can generate demand.** **But actually operating a brokerage nationally introduces an enormous regulatory and licensing challenge.** **We have an opportunity to approach the market with licensing capabilities across all 50 states from the beginning.** **That changes what can be built.** **Instead of proving a concept in one state and spending years assembling the infrastructure required to expand, our ambition is national from day one.** **Combine that with experienced leadership, strong sales capabilities, direct industry knowledge and a business model that has already attracted significant interest from venture capital, private industry and strategic players, and we believe the ingredients exist to build something unusually large.** **What We’re Building** **We won’t publish the entire product roadmap here.** **The broader vision is straightforward:** **Flat\-fee real estate \+ AI listing technology \+ optional in\-person services.** **We believe homeowners should be able to use technology to handle significantly more of the home\-selling process themselves while having professional assistance available exactly when they need it.** **That means rethinking the entire experience rather than simply digitizing the traditional one.** **The technology could ultimately touch areas including:** **\* AI\-assisted property listing** **\* Pricing and market intelligence** **\* Listing distribution** **\* Marketing automation** **\* Transaction management** **\* Consumer guidance** **\* Showing coordination** **\* Document workflows** **\* Communications** **\* Brokerage operations** **\* Marketplace/service infrastructure** **\* Local, on\-demand assistance** **Some of what we intend to build is obvious.** **Some of it isn’t.** **The latter is a major reason we’re intentionally keeping this description broad.** **Your Role** **You would join as our Founding Chief Technology Officer and a true equity partner.** **This is not a position where someone else hands you a finished product specification and asks you to manage engineers.** **You will help determine what the product becomes.** **You’ll work directly with the founding team to translate a significant industry opportunity into a technology platform capable of operating nationally.** **Early on, you’ll be a builder.** **You’ll architect.** **You’ll prototype.** **You’ll write code.** **You’ll experiment with AI.** **You’ll decide what we build internally and what we integrate.** **You’ll probably kill some ideas and discover better ones.** **As the company grows, you’ll build the engineering organization around the architecture and technical vision you helped establish.** **The Technical Challenge** **We aren’t looking to sprinkle AI on top of an existing brokerage model and call it innovation.** **The question we’re interested in is much larger:** **If you were designing the process of selling a home today, with modern AI, automation and software available from the beginning, how much of the traditional model would you actually recreate?** **That’s the problem we want our CTO thinking about.** **The platform will require a combination of sophisticated consumer software, AI systems, real estate data, APIs, transaction infrastructure, brokerage operations and automation.** **And there is substantial room for the CTO to influence how those pieces come together.** **Who We’re Looking For** **We’re looking for a technical founder, not simply an employee with a CTO title.** **Someone who can move between architecture and execution.** **Someone who can build the first version and eventually recruit the people capable of building the hundredth.** **Experience with several of the following would be valuable:** **\* Full\-stack application development** **\* AI/LLM systems** **\* Agentic AI and automation** **\* API architecture** **\* Cloud infrastructure** **\* Data\-intensive applications** **\* SaaS platforms** **\* Marketplaces** **\* FinTech or PropTech** **\* Payments** **\* Security and privacy** **\* Real estate/MLS data** **\* Scaling engineering organizations** **Real estate experience is helpful, but not necessary.** **The ability to build quickly, think independently and recognize enormous technical leverage is.** **Why Join Now?** **Because the most interesting time to join a company isn’t after everything is obvious.** **It’s before.** **The founding team brings experience across real estate, brokerage operations, strategy, sales, marketing, product development and company growth.** **We have a significant structural advantage that would be difficult for a new entrant to reproduce quickly.** **We have a defined market thesis.** **We have a clear vision.** **And we are intentionally leaving one major seat at the founding table open:** **Technology.** **The person who fills it won’t inherit the technical strategy.** **They’ll create it.** **Compensation** **This is an equity\-first founding opportunity.** **Founding CTO Equity: 10%** **That’s meaningful ownership because we want meaningful commitment.** **We aren’t looking for someone to spend a few hours each week advising us from the sidelines. We want someone who wants to become one of the people who built the company.** **The equity structure would be formally documented with appropriate founder vesting and protections.** **As funding and/or revenue support it, the position is intended to evolve into a compensated executive role while retaining the CTO’s meaningful ownership position.** **The Bigger Picture** **The residential real estate industry represents an enormous amount of consumer spending.** **Technology has changed almost everything surrounding the transaction.** **Search changed.** **Marketing changed.** **Mortgage technology changed.** **Consumer behavior changed.** **And now AI is changing what consumers can reasonably do for themselves.** **We believe that creates a window for a very different kind of real estate company.** **One that combines technology, national brokerage infrastructure and real\-world services rather than choosing between them.** **We have a very specific vision for what that company can become.** **We’re intentionally not putting all of it in a job posting.** **If you’re the kind of technical founder who sees a massive legacy industry and immediately starts wondering how much of it can be rebuilt, we’d like to show you the rest.** Employment Type Pay: $60\.00 \- $75\.00 per hour Expected hours: 1\.0 – 30\.0 per week Work Location: Remote