Technical Co-founder (CTO) - AI Collections Agent

FutureSight • Seattle, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Argentl is seeking a Technical Co-founder (CTO) to partner with the CEO and lead product and engineering for their AI collections agent. The company has validated its customer thesis, engaged design partners, and is running live pilots. The next critical phase involves proving in-production reliability, delivery economics, and scalability. Argentl's AI collections agent handles outbound debtor follow-up automatically, focusing on outcomes like DSO reduction and cash commitments captured, rather than configuration effort. The venture aims to define the category of AI finance-ops roles, starting with collections follow-up and expanding to adjacent functions delivered through a managed model. This is a co-founder role with founder-level equity, authority, and decision-making power in product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy.

Requirements

• Shipped LLM-powered and voice systems into production environments where incorrect outputs carried real consequences.
• Full-stack confidence across applied LLMs, real-time voice and conversational AI, telephony, human-in-the-loop workflows, observability, and secure multi-tenant SaaS.
• Well-formed convictions about reliability engineering, edge-case management, and the trade-offs between AI quality and cost-per-call.
• Experience building managed and service-heavy platforms, with the discipline to scale delivery without scaling engineering headcount.
• Prepared to operate as a principal — including saying "this won't scale" or "this isn't ready" when the integrity of the product requires it.
• A hands-on builder — still writes code and ships, and is happiest close to the product.

Nice To Haves

• Finance, accounting, or FinOps background — understanding AR, DSO, aging, disputes, and how finance teams actually work.
• Based in Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area (or ready to be).
• Pragmatic and creative — a solution finder who gets to "working" fast and iterates from there.
• Co-operative, strategic, and hands-on in equal measure.
• Capable and willing to help in finding and closing early customer partnerships.
• An active social media presence that can be put to work for founder-led distribution.

Responsibilities

• Take over production code and continue building the product.
• Set the technical direction and lead execution end-to-end.
• Harden voice and workflow systems for in-production reliability.
• Establish core architecture, observability, and audit-trail standards.
• Build the internal infrastructure for configuring, monitoring, and optimizing agent performance.
• Mature the workflow engine for reliable call flow, intent classification, and next-action execution.
• Own the accounting and ERP integration layer (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.).
• Own the trade-offs between AI quality and cost-per-call, and lock in unit economics within a monthly pricing model.
• Represent the company as the technical voice to finance leaders, partners, and investors.
• Convert pilots into paying customers and expand the AI staff beyond collections.
• Begin a path toward custom and self-hosted models for data-privacy and financial-compliance requirements.
• Recruit and lead the founding engineering team.
• Establish the cultural foundation of the company.

Benefits

• Founder-level equity
• Founder-level authority with co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy
• Genuine partnership with the CEO on every material decision

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed