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# Chief Technology Officer

- **Company:** Papillon Media Group Inc.
- **Location:** Holmdel, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, DevOps, Digital Asset Management, Metadata, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Audio Streaming, Information Technology, Video Streaming
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_f54e0a7eb656cf224435a001212d2b69

## About the Role

* 10-15 years of progressive technology/engineering leadership, including prior CTO, VP of Engineering, or comparable senior technology role
 * Demonstrated experience taking a consumer digital product from concept through commercial launch and scale
 * Strong knowledge of video and/or audio streaming architecture, cloud infrastructure (AWS or comparable), CDN delivery, content security/DRM, APIs, and data/AI systems
 * Experience managing technology budgets, vendors, and both internal and outsourced engineering talent
 * Entrepreneurial, builder mindset - comfortable operating with speed, resourcefulness, and discipline in an early-stage environment
 * Preferred: experience in streaming/OTT, music, entertainment, or consumer subscription technology
 * Strong product orientation with experience translating business and consumer needs into scalable technology solutions
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred, or equivalent significant technology leadership experience

## Description

We're seeking an entrepreneurial, hands-on CTO to own our technology strategy end-to-end - platform architecture, technology partnerships, engineering leadership, and execution - for a next-generation platform spanning film, music, artists, and digital entertainment. This is a foundational hire: equally comfortable setting long-term strategy and executing an early-stage roadmap, ideal for a builder who can take an idea from whiteboard to scaled consumer product., * Technology Strategy & Architecture:Define and execute the technology vision, architecture, and roadmap for a scalable film and music streaming platform, including determining what technology should be built internally versus sourced through strategic partners.

 * Platform Development & Launch:Lead the platform from concept through MVP, commercial launch, and scale across web, mobile, and connected-TV applications.
 * Streaming & Content Technology:Oversee the infrastructure required to ingest, manage, protect, and distribute film, music, and digital entertainment content, including cloud infrastructure, streaming technology, DRM, content rights, metadata, and digital asset management.
 * Product & Consumer Experience:Partner with executive leadership to translate the company's entertainment strategy into an intuitive consumer product encompassing subscriptions, profiles, search, playlists, watchlists, content discovery, and personalized recommendations.
 * Data, AI & Personalization:Establish the company's data and analytics strategy and leverage AI and machine learning to enhance content discovery, recommendations, customer engagement, and platform operations.
 * Subscriptions & Platform Integration:Oversee subscription billing, payments, authentication, user entitlements, app-store integrations, and other third-party technology partnerships.
 * Security, Scalability & Reliability:Ensure the platform meets high standards for cybersecurity, content protection, privacy, reliability, performance, and scalability.
 * Engineering Leadership:Build and lead a high-performing technology organization, including engineering, product development, data, DevOps, and external development partners.
 * Technology Partnerships & Budget:Select and manage cloud, streaming, development, and technology vendors while maintaining disciplined technology budgets and infrastructure costs.
 * Executive Leadership:Serve as the company's senior technology advisor, communicating technology strategy, investment requirements, risks, and opportunities to the CEO, executive leadership, Board, investors, and strategic partners.

What Success Looks Like

 * A clear technology roadmap and scalable architecture for Papillon's film and music streaming platform
 * Successful development and commercial launch of the platform MVP, with clear measures of adoption, engagement, performance, and scalability
 * A scalable cloud, streaming, content, data and security infrastructure
 * A strong initial engineering organization and technology partner ecosystem
 * Data, AI and personalization capabilities that create measurable competitive advantages for Papillon