Chief Technology Officer

The posting, as Artsy and Artnet wrote it

ABOUT ARTSY AND ARTNET

Artsy and Artnet have combined to create the world’s largest online art marketplace and information platform. Together, we connect collectors, galleries, auction houses, and institutions across a global market valued at over $60 billion. Our products serve both the art world’s largest institutions and individual collectors – supporting art discovery, research and transactions.

We are at a pivotal moment. The combined company brings together the broadest customer base in the online art market, uniquely valuable proprietary data, a proven team, and new velocity as a combined organization. We believe the rapid evolution of AI will reshape not just how we build our products, but how our users interact with them. We want a technology leader who is as excited about that future as we are.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead the combined engineering organization through a period of ambitious growth and technological transformation. This is not a maintenance role. It’s a mandate to retool how an entire organization builds software, to mentor a talented team through that transition, and to ensure that what we’re building today is designed for the world our users will inhabit tomorrow.

The right person is energized by a set of hard questions: Which parts of our platform are durable advantages, and which will be commoditized by AI? How should we build for an agentic user who discovers and transacts through AI intermediaries rather than browsing a website? Where are we underinvested? What does a world-class engineering team look like when AI fundamentally changes how software is written?

Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll own the full technology function: engineering, infrastructure, and technical architecture. You’ll be the company’s eyes on the technology frontier, constantly scanning what’s emerging, and pressure-testing our assumptions about what’s feasible. As a key member of the senior leadership team, you’ll surface information and opportunities to help shape company direction and make the best possible strategic decisions.

Just as importantly, you’ll be a mentor and teacher to the entire organization. The transition to AI-augmented workflows isn’t just a tooling change, it’s a cultural one. We need a leader who can bring the team along, raise everyone’s capabilities, and create an environment where engineers, product managers, designers, and business operators are all fluent in what’s now possible.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Retool How We Build

• Lead the adoption of AI-augmented development workflows across the engineering organization, fundamentally increasing what the team can ship and how fast they can ship it
• Mentor engineers, product managers, designers, and business operators in new ways of working, making AI fluency a core competency across the org, not just a tooling layer for a few
• Build on the team’s existing foundation of modern tooling, agile practices, and continuous d

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Artsy and Artnet are committed to equitable compensation practices, and your offer will depend on the relevant experience and skillset you bring to the team.

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by email. You should submit your application directly through our careers website!

ARTSY AND ARTNET VALUES

Our values guide how we work, shape our decisions, and bring us together as one team. They keep us aligned and help drive us toward our mission: to expand the art market, support more artists, and bring more art into the world—helping us create a future where everyone is moved by art, every day.

Own the Outcome: We need all of us to achieve our mission. We take individual responsibility for team results, and we push to get the job done.

Move Fast, Learn Fast: We are building and reinventing every day, iterating quickly on multiple ideas to find what drives impact. We believe learning happens by doing and seeing what works.

Be Direct, Be Kind: We trust our colleagues and treat them with respect. Solving hard problems requires having hard conversations, and we support one another by being candid and kind.

Build for the Customer: We believe the art market has to evolve in order to flourish. We have a unique role to play in that growth, so we work hard to deeply understand the industry and build tools that solve real user needs.

Embrace Change: Achieving our mission in a dynamic tech environment demands constant change. We lean in to opportunity, face ambiguity bravely, and model to others and the industry a state of constant innovation and evolution.

Artsy is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status.