Deputy CTO (AI Product)
Social Discovery Group
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Jun 29, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical leadership role sitting directly below the CTO, with responsibility spanning backend and ML teams. The position combines hands-on coding and feature delivery with architecture ownership, people management (hiring, resourcing, team leadership), and cross-team coordination. It suits an engineer with 8+ years of experience who has moved into technical leadership but still writes code regularly, preferably with a background in C#, Python, or comparable backend languages.
Principal level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 7,100–17,700
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $175,140 (middle half $138,060–$220,730).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title 'Deputy CTO' carries no standard seniority level word, so the title states no level. However, the role's actual scope — org-wide technical authority second only to the CTO, owning architecture across backend and ML teams, with full people-management (hiring, compensation, resourcing) and cross-team alignment at CTO/CDO level — places it firmly at Principal on the IC-to-leadership ladder.
The role is a genuine hybrid of senior people management (11-3021) and hands-on individual contribution (15-1252). The JD explicitly requires the candidate to still write code and ship features themselves, making 15-1252 a meaningful runner-up. 11-3021 was chosen as primary because formal people-management duties (hiring, offboarding, compensation, resourcing) are explicitly listed as core responsibilities.
Backend language requirement: C# and Python are explicitly preferred; strong Java or 'other backend experience' is also accepted. These are framed as interchangeable options for the same gate, so C# is listed as the primary with Python and Java as alternatives.
Compensation figures are not disclosed in the posting — the JD states pay will be shared with candidates during recruitment. No comp range is extracted.
The role is described as globally distributed with no single country of primary work; the caller has declared it fully remote with a national (US) candidate pool, so no metro is set.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend engineering, system architecture, infrastructure management.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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