Chief Technology Officer - Digital Media Company in Bangalore, भारत

Location: Basvangudi, Bengaluru (with travel to Mumbai and Delhi)

Reports to: CEO and COO

Type: Full-time, leadership team

Katapult is a recruitment consultancy that helps brands and agencies hire exceptional talent. This role is with our client company. 

Company: A Leading Digital Media Company 
We're an integrated digital-first media and marketing company, specialising in organic media, meme marketing, influencer partnerships, and content-led brand solutions. Operating at the intersection of culture, creators, and communities, we help leading consumer and digital-native brands drive awareness, engagement, and cultural relevance across social platforms. Through a vertically integrated ecosystem of proprietary meme networks, creator collectives, and owned media brands, we deliver scalable, content-first distribution models that combine strategy, storytelling, and organic reach to engineer attention at scale.

The Role

You will own technology across every business. You will lead the engineering, product-tech and AI effort behind our new age content creation platforms and the tech-led businesses we launch next. This is a builder's job. We want someone who can solve a hard problem personally, ship it, and then teach and hire others to run it.

What You Will Do

Year one

• Scale our 2 live social media platforms: users, engagement, reliability, performance and monetisation.

• Build and launch 1 to 2 new tech-led lines of business from zero.

• Put AI at the centre of our products and internal workflows: content, recommendations, creator and brand matching, analytics and automation.

Ongoing

• Set the technology vision and roadmap with the CEO and COO, tied to business outcomes.

• Build and grow the engineering org from the current 10+ to a much larger, high-performing team. Hire leaders, set the bar and coach.

• Stay hands-on where it counts: architecture, prototypes, debugging, code and design reviews.

• Own platform quality: architecture, security, data, cloud costs, uptime and delivery speed.

• Work closely with product, design, content, creator and sales teams across all business verticals.

• Evaluate build vs buy, vendors and acquisitions, including tech integration for businesses that are brought in.

• Build an engineering culture that is fast, curious and AI-native.

What We Are Looking For

Experience

• 10+ years in software and technology, including at least 5 as a founder, CTO, VP Engineering or Tech Lead.

• Has built a product or tech org from the ground up, scaled it, maintained it and managed the team through growth.

• Currently or recently leads a team of 10+ engineers, and has scaled one through rapid growth.

• Strong consumer product background, ideally in social media, creator platforms, media, content or high-traffic consumer apps.

Technical depth

• Full-stack fluency across backend, frontend and mobile, and comfort across cloud-native architectures and modern stacks.

• Practical AI experience: has shipped AI/ML or LLM-powered features and uses AI to speed up engineering.

• Experience with scale: high traffic, video and media pipelines, data infrastructure, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

How you work

• A problem solver who gets things done, not only a manager of managers.

• Comfortable with ambiguity, speed and shifting priorities in a high-growth company.

• Understands social media and internet culture, and cares about what makes content and communities work.

• Can communicate with founders, creators, brands and engineers, and make technical trade-offs clear to non-technical leaders.

• Thrives in a young, ambitious team and sets the energy for it.

Why This Role

• Technology is a central part of our next phase, and you will have a seat at the leadership table.

• You will build from the ground up: two live platforms to scale and new businesses to launch.

• You will work directly with the CEO and COO, in a company that moves quickly and rewards ownership.

• Real scale: a large creator network, owned media properties and a 400+ person team to support.