Iris is building the intelligence layer that connects founders to the right investors, mentors, and opportunities through one high signal network, starting with a curated network of female founders in the UK and France.
We are looking for a CTO to design and build the AI that powers this network, turning fragmented relationships and informal introductions into a scalable, data-driven system that matches the right people at the right time.
Tasks
What you will do
- Translate real-world network behaviour into structured data and intelligent, LLM-driven workflows
- Own the product architecture from MVP to scale across email, WhatsApp, and web, building a secure, serverless foundation natively within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem
- Design AI systems with a strong focus on safety, fairness, privacy, and transparency, ensuring recommendations and matching logic are responsible, explainable, and free from harmful bias
- Implement best practices for AI governance, model evaluation, and responsible data usage as the platform scales
- Work closely with founders to define product, roadmap, and technical strategy
- Build and lead the engineering team as the company grows
Requirements
What we are looking for
- Strong experience building and scaling products, ideally in AI, data, or network-driven platforms, with deep Applied AI Engineering skills (hands-on expertise with LLM orchestration and generating high-dimensional embeddings)
- Experience building trustworthy AI products, including model evaluation, bias mitigation, privacy-preserving systems, and safe deployment practices
- Deep technical familiarity with the Google Cloud ecosystem, specifically Vertex AI (Vector Search) and serverless deployment (Cloud Run, Firestore)
- Ability to move fast from zero to one with limited resources
- Product-minded engineer who understands user behaviour and real-world workflows (you prioritize frictionless data capture over clunky UI layers)
- Experience in the venture ecosystem is a strong advantage
Benefits
Why join
- Build the system that routes capital and opportunity in an underserved founder segment
- Turn a live, high-quality female founder network into a scalable technology platform from Day 1
- High ownership, high impact, early equity