Chief Technology Officer

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...