CTO Japan - AI Agents Platform

About the role

A partner company helps enterprises build, test, deploy and monitor AI agents for complex needs, across voice, chat, email and back-office systems in any language or culture. It is looking for a CTO Japan to lead the technical side of sales and act as hands-on engineering lead, building and leading a technical team.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the technical side of sales: join early conversations, present demos and guide architecture and security discussions
• Ship code, build integrations and set high quality standards
• Build and lead a technical team across engineering, integration and pre-sales
• Drive customer integrations from scoping to deployment of AI agents and ensure production accuracy
• Gather customer feedback, localize the product and represent regional needs to the global product team
• Serve as the local technical point of contact, building partnerships and handling escalations

Required profile

• 7-8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with shipped products
• Proven track record in pre-sales, solution architecture or complex technical implementations
• Customer-facing background such as Field CTO, Solutions Architect or Deployed Engineer
• Leadership experience at Director, VP or Founder level
• Excellent written and spoken English plus fluency in at least one local language
• Comfortable working independently in a zero-to-one environment; startup experience is a bonus