Chief Technology Officer

Join Foodsmart, a transformative consumer-driven healthcare business focused on bringing foodcare to underserved populations. As the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead a fast-moving engineering organization, develop a long-range staffing plan, and shape the company's AI strategy. You will have full ownership of Engineering, Data, IT, and Security across the US and India-based organization. This is a hands-on role for a builder who is genuinely motivated by the mission of expanding access to affordable, healthy food and helping people build sustainably healthier lives.

• Establish yourself as a leader who is directly engaged in the product day to day, ensuring quality issues are caught early and decisions reach closure quickly.
• Deliver a step-change in product and interface quality by putting in place the standards, ownership, and follow-through that eliminate recurring defects.
• Build a true partnership with the Chief Product Officer and the broader business, operating as one product-and-engineering leadership unit.
• The behaviors below are the ones that matter most for this role and this stage. We are being deliberately specific because fit here is defined as much by how someone leads as by what they have built
• A hands-on builder who leads from inside the work, with a real fire in the belly and a strong bias for action; close to the product, the team, and the details, and stays hands-on as the organization scales
• A talent magnet and builder of teams who can attract, assess, develop, and retain excellent technical talent, and who sets and holds a high standard across the organization
• Business-minded; prioritizes the work that drives business impact, speaks in terms of outcomes rather than activity and makes clear trade-offs against commercial and clinical goals
• A genuine product partner, energized by working with a strong Chief Product Officer and other business leaders; sees product and engineering as a single delivery unit
• An accountable owner who owns outcomes end to end, drives decisions to closure, holds themselves and their team to a high standard, and does not deflect accountability to other teams. Brings urgency to what matters most
• Mission-driven — genuinely energized by the problem we are solving; who believes in bringing foodcare to underserved populations and is motivated by using technology to expand access to affordable, healthy food and help people build sustainably healthier lives
• Fluent and pragmatic on AI, with early-adopter instincts with the judgment to apply AI where it creates leverage in product and development, and the ambition to help lead the company's broader transformation into a truly AI-enabled business
• An excellent communicator, written and verbal, able to translate between technical and business audiences and build alignment across the executive team and the board
• Strong consumer technology experience and a record of building commercially viable products, with a track record of shipping consumer or consumer-grade experiences that customers love and that move the business
• Healthcare or digital health experience, and comfort with the compliance and security realities of the space (HIPAA, SOC 2)
• Experience scaling engineering in a growth-stage, PE- or VC-backed company, with an appreciation for cost discipline alongside growth
• Experience with two-sided marketplace or multi-stakeholder platforms
• Experience leading distributed engineering organizations across US and offshore teams, and building the staffing strategy for both
• A self-aware, feedback-seeking growth mindset, and a kind, collaborative style that fits our values
• Typically 15+ years of relevant industry experience, including direct responsibility for setting org structure and technical vision across multiple products, and a track record of leading and coaching engineering organizations through scale. What matters most is not the size of the largest team led, but a demonstrated pattern of staying close to the work, shipping quality product, and driving commercial outcomes in partnership with product