Build AI that manufacturers rely on to make strong product and portfolio decisions.
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The world's leading manufacturers possess extraordinary knowledge about their products, technologies, customers, and markets. Much of that knowledge lives across disconnected systems, documents, and teams, making it difficult to access when consequential decisions need to be made.
Narratize is changing that.
We're building an AI-native Product Portfolio Intelligence platform that helps manufacturers determine what to develop, where to invest, and how to advance innovation.
With enterprise customers and a substantial technical foundation in knowledge orchestration, intelligent agents, and connected workflows, our next challenge is clear: make sophisticated AI genuinely useful in the daily decisions of product teams. We're building compelling, trusted experiences that are easy to adopt, quick to implement, and valuable enough to become part of how manufacturers work.
We're seeking a Chief Technology Officer who can help lead that transformation. We're looking for a builder who thinks like an owner to scale an ambitious business, knows what it takes to turn emerging technology into commercially successful products, and thrives when resources are constrained and decisions matter. You can move fluently between shaping company strategy, working alongside engineers on difficult technical problems, and helping the CEO win transformational enterprise customers.
As a senior member of our executive team, you will connect the frontier of AI innovation to meaningful customer value and measurable commercial advantage.
You will make an impact across five dimensions:
You've personally built, launched, and commercialized enterprise software or AI products, ideally in a venture-backed or similarly entrepreneurial company serving demanding enterprise buyers. You combine deep technical judgment, commercial instincts, and the ability to make consequential decisions with limited time, capital, and engineering capacity.
You understand modern production AI deeply—including LLM applications, enterprise knowledge, retrieval, agents, evaluation, and emerging model capabilities—and have turned technically sophisticated systems into intuitive, reliable experiences that customers repeatedly use, trust, and pay for.
You've personally engaged enterprise CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and business leaders in consequential technology decisions; helped resolve deployment objections and win business; and mentored engineers and engineering leaders. You can move from executive discussion to architecture review or prototype when the situation demands it.
You're entrepreneurial, intellectually curious, decisive, collaborative, and energized by building alongside founders. You challenge assumptions, spot opportunities early, and take personal pride in the success of customers and colleagues.
Experience building software for enterprise buyers in an early-stage or scaling company is strongly preferred; venture-backed experience is valuable. Manufacturing, industrial innovation, and enterprise product-development experience are advantages, not prerequisites.
Location: Narratize is a remote-first company headquartered in Greater Cincinnati. We strongly value in-person collaboration and welcome candidates interested in relocating to Cincinnati, with relocation incentives available. Relocation is not a requirement. We are equally committed to finding exceptional talent across Eastern and Central time zones, provided the leader can regularly collaborate with our team and travel to strategic enterprise customers when necessary.
This is an opportunity to shape how the world's most innovative manufacturers make their most important product decisions—and to help build the company that makes it possible.
Email hello@narratize.com with Chief Technology Officer in the subject line.
Narratize is a remote-first team helping advanced manufacturers bring superior products to market faster. If this role fits, we'd like to hear from you.