🧑‍💼 CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

🚀 Context

A fast-growing French scale-up in the education sector, in a structuring phase, is looking for its future Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to steer the technological vision, the integration of AI, and support the next round of fundraising (Series A then Series B).

The current Tech team (12 people) is already solid and committed, and the roadmap is ambitious: platform scalability (desktop + mobile), managerial structuring, advanced AI integration (LLMs, speech-to-text, automation), continuous product improvement and marketplace scalability.
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🎯 Role & Missions

As CTO and member of the Executive Committee, you will be responsible for :

• Define and embody the company's technological and AI vision
• Structuring and growing the tech team (from 12 to 20 people)
• Take charge of key recruitments on the dev, product and design sides
• Supporting founders in fund-raising (Series A / Series B)
• Deploy a scalable, resilient architecture to support growth
• Integrate native AI solutions into all operations (product, infra, automation)
• Steering coordination between Tech, Product, Design and Business
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✅ Profile Wanted

• 10+ years' experience in the tech industry, including at least 3-4 years as CTO, VP Engineering or Technical Lead
• Practical experience of team structuring and scaling tech organization
• Strong ability to convey a vision, arbitrate technically, and help teams progress
• Strong leadership, recruitment, organization and delivery skills
• Appetence for integrating AI at the heart of the product
• Solid technical training (Epitech, X, Mines, Centrale, Télécom...)
• Professional French and English
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🛠️ Stack Technique

• Back-end: Node.js, NestJS, MariaDB, Socket.IO
• Front-end: React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Architecture: Microservices
• Tools & Methodologies: Scalability, real-time performance, integrated AI
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💼 Terms & Conditions

• Contract : Permanent contract
• Remuneration: €120 - €130k gross per annum
• Equity: BSPCE planned (currently being structured)
• Location: Central Paris
• Teleworking: Hybrid (2 to 3 days on site)
• Working language: French + English
• Current team: 12 people (8 devs, 2 designers, 2 product)
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🌱 Why this position?

• Key role in extended founding team (Codir)
• Existing but still perfectible tech structure = high impact power
• Ambitious AI roadmap with integration of LLM bricks, automation, etc.
• Education market undergoing digital transformation
• Highly committed team and strong product culture
• Preparing for a strategic lift (Series A → Series B)
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🧪 Recruitment Process

1. First exchange with the CEO
2. Meet the co-founders and Head of Product
3. Quick decision (2 to 3 interviews max)

👉 Interested in this CTO challenge in EdTech with real strategic leverage on AI and product scalability?

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