CTO

head-huntress.comNew York, NY
Onsite

About The Position

Our client is looking for an exceptional CTO (This is not an advisory CTO role, but hands-on) to lead technology, product architecture, and engineering execution for a new AI healthcare payments company. This is a funded, early-stage venture built around a high-conviction thesis at the intersection of healthcare, payments, revenue cycle, and AI. The company is focused on improving complex financial workflows across the healthcare ecosystem, including provider-payer payment processes, claims workflows, revenue cycle operations, payment reconciliation, denials, and administrative automation. This is not an advisory CTO role. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who can build the product, architect the platform, recruit the early engineering team, and move quickly from MVP to scalable commercial product. The company is developing an AI-enabled healthcare payments application designed to improve how healthcare organizations manage payment, claims, and revenue-cycle workflows. The platform will use AI, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure infrastructure to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, accelerate payment processes, and create better visibility across healthcare financial operations.

Requirements

  • Hands-on technical leader
  • Ability to build the product
  • Ability to architect the platform
  • Ability to recruit the early engineering team
  • Move quickly from MVP to scalable commercial product
  • Strong technical depth
  • Founder-level urgency
  • Experience building products from zero to one
  • Structured technical training in computer science, engineering, or a related field
  • Experience in top-tier engineering environments, high-growth startups, or complex technical organizations
  • Ability to personally build while also recruiting and leading an engineering team
  • Strong product instincts
  • Comfort working with customers, commercial leaders, investors, and advisors

Nice To Haves

  • Former founder or early technical leadership experience
  • Graduate of top 10 School (examples given Penn, Columbia, UChicago, etc.)
  • Interest or experience in healthcare, payments, fintech, revenue cycle, or healthcare infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Own the technology vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap
  • Build and launch the initial product
  • Evaluate and select the technical stack
  • Design secure, scalable systems for healthcare payment workflows
  • Build AI-enabled workflow automation into the product from the beginning
  • Lead integrations with healthcare, claims, payment, billing, and data systems
  • Recruit and lead the early engineering team
  • Work directly with the CEO, investors, advisors, and early customers
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