Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Influence Analytics Start-upType: Full-time | Location: UK / EU Remote (occasional London meet-ups)Start: Flexible – ideally before Sept 2025Pipped is partnering with a stealth-mode analytics start-up that is reinventing how social-media influence is tracked, measured and predicted. We’re searching for a mission-driven CTO to turn product vision into a scalable platform, ship the first MVP, and build a top-tier engineering organisation from the ground up.What you’ll ownTech vision & roadmap – Translate product goals into a clear architecture from MVP to full platform.Data collection at scale – Design compliant pipelines that pull from X/Twitter, Meta, Reddit, YouTube and third-party sources.Infrastructure & ML – Deliver real-time + batch processing, embedding AI/ML models directly into production.Social-media intelligence – Craft novel metrics for hidden-influencer detection, bridge mapping and predictive analytics.Team leadership – Hire, mentor and inspire a lean group of data scientists & engineers.What you’ll bring5+ years’ senior engineering leadership in SaaS, data or analytics scale-ups.Deep experience with API data ingestion, distributed systems and ML in production.Full-stack fluency and a track record of shipping 0→1 products in fast-moving environments.Bonus: graph AI / network-science expertise, prior social-media analytics background, start-up scaling experience.Why join?Green-field ownership, genuine technical challenge, and the chance to shape a category-defining product—while recruiting the team that makes it happen.Keen to learn more? Message Pipped for a confidential chat.