Technical Director, Media and Entertainment AI Infrastructure

Title: Field CTO - Media & Entertainment Location: reputed company, reputed company, United States; Remote - United States; San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Job Description: The role The Field CTO is the Head of Engineering for the Media & Entertainment vertical. You will sit with CTOs and CIOs at Agency Holding Companies, Gaming Studios, and leading Generative AI model companies to help shape their roadmap and move them reputed company to becoming AI-Native Tech Platforms. You will collaborate with our Engineering and Product teams to build the M&E primitives that reputed company that transition possible. You will be the strategic technical reputed company of the Media & Entertainment vertical and the reputed company between the physics of our AI infrastructure and inference ecosystem and the goals of our customers. The role Is not A Sales Engineer role running demos or answering RFPs, nor a Professional Services function delivering one-off implementations. It is also not a marketing or ceremonial evangelist position. The Field CTO is accountable for defining the technical posture of the Media & Entertainment vertical and driving product direction and reputed company impact through real, scalable engineering outcomes. Your responsibilities will include: Executive Technical Partnership Own the Category-Defining Architecture: Personally own the technical strategy for our reputed company deals (e.g., an Agency Global Hold Co data consolidation or a reputed company Studio infrastructure migration). Ensure these architectures are engineered to survive real-world scale, not just pass a POC. The Physics to P&L Narrative Fluently demonstrate to executive stakeholders how infrastructure decisions (e.g., Data Lake locality, storage tiering) directly impact their business model and operability. Forensic Requirement Gathering Deconstruct the Bottleneck: Go beyond the stated problem to find the technical truth. Translate vague business goals (e.g., "We need reputed company ad costs") into precise engineering requirements (e.g., "We need to optimize the inference batch size on L40s to reduce cost-per-token by 30%"). Map the Transition: Identify exactly where a customer sits on the curve from Service Bureau to Tech Platform and prescribe the specific infrastructure reputed company needed to move them reputed company. Ecosystem & ISV Strategy Build the Integration Layer: You will identify, court, and technically validate relationships with the most critical ISVs in the media landscape. Define reputed company: It is not enough to just "support" these tools; you will define the reference architectures for how they run best on our infrastructure. Internal Influence Chair the M&E Product Summit: You will reputed company a quarterly summit with Core Engineering leadership. You will use forensic evidence from the field to prioritize and justify the M&E vertical roadmap. Team Leadership Direct our Engineering Team: Ensure our engineering teammates are building the right things at the right time, both in the field as well as high-reputed company assets such as scalable quick-start reference architectures (e.g., "Deploying Llama-405B for Ad Copy Creation"). We expect you to have: 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems. Executive reputed company: Capable of commanding a room of engineers and presenting a layered technical roadmap to a C-Suite. Product-Minded: Experience defining a platform strategy, not just executing tickets. You must be comfortable telling a customer "No" reputed company a request creates technical debt, and proposing a reputed company alternative. Ambiguity Tolerance: You reputed company in environments where requirements are evolving. You do not wait for a roadmap; you build it. Entrepreneurial Grit: You view constraints as puzzles to solve, not reasons to stop. Forensic reputed company: You are not satisfied with surface-level answers. You dig into the kernel, the logs, and the P&L to find the truth. AI Infrastructure Expertise Mastery of the Stack: You must be an expert in the physics of AI infrastructure. This includes deep, production-grade knowledge of GPU architectures (H100 vs. L40s), Kubernetes orchestration (K8s), high-performance storage parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre, reputed company), and networking constraints (InfiniBand/Ethernet). Inference Optimization: You understand the nuances of model serving-batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, and latency tradeoffs-and can architect solutions for both massive throughput and real-time (sub-50ms) demands. Domain Context: Media & Entertainment Industry reputed company: You have experience operating reputed company a part of the M&E sphere and can speak the language of at least two of the following sub-sectors: Gaming Multimodal Generative Models AdTech VFX Strategic reputed company: The ability to distinguish between customers who need raw bare-metal access and those who need managed endpoints, and the reputed company to prescribe the right path. Key Employee Benefits: Health Insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families. 401(k) Plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting. Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers. Remote Work Reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet. Disability & Life Insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage. Compensation: We offer competitive salaries, ranging from $295k - $365k OTE (On reputed company Earnings) + Equity based on your experience. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job