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It is a Martell Ventures portfolio company with the ambition to build a category-defining product and a highly leveraged, AI-first operating model.\nAbout Martell Group\nThe Martell Group exists to build people, brands, and ventures that create meaningful impact. Across our four companies, we combine audience, operators, and execution to launch scalable products and empower ambitious leaders in Media, B2B SaaS, and AI.\nFounded by serial entrepreneur and investor Dan Martell (investor in Udemy, Intercom, and Unbounce), we're building a company that values leadership, growth, and simplicity, and we're looking for people who live those values too.\nOur goal is to attract world-class talent and align people where their impact is greatest. When you apply to Martell Group, you'll automatically be considered for all open roles across our companies, not just the one you applied for.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for an AI-first Technical Leader to own product engineering at Winly. You'll write code every day while coordinating a small, high-performing team of engineers and contractors.\nThis is a player-coach role for someone who can move fluidly between architecture, product decisions, hands-on development, and team leadership. You'll partner closely with the Business Leader to translate company priorities into a focused technical roadmap, and you'll report progress, risks, and key decisions to the Martell Ventures board.\nYour mandate is to build a reliable, scalable product; use AI to increase the speed and quality of development; and create a technical organization that can grow with the business.\nWhat You'll Do\n1. Own the product and technology\nSet the technical direction and make pragmatic architecture decisions that support the company's strategy.\nStay deeply hands-on: write production code, review pull requests, debug critical issues, and ship meaningful product improvements.\nOwn reliability, security, performance, and the quality of the customer experience.\n2. Build an AI-first engineering organization\nUse AI-native development tools and workflows to help a small team produce exceptional output.\nEstablish strong engineering fundamentals, including testing, CI/CD, code review, documentation, monitoring, and incident response.\nContinuously improve how the team plans, builds, ships, and learns.\n3. Lead a small, high-performing team\nCoordinate engineers and contractors around clear outcomes, priorities, and standards.\nCreate the context, feedback loops, and accountability needed for people to do their best work.\nIdentify when to hire, contract, automate, or simplify as the company grows.\n4. Partner with the Business Leader\nTurn customer insight and business priorities into a focused product and engineering roadmap.\nBalance speed, quality, cost, and technical risk when making decisions.\nBring technical judgment into company planning, resource allocation, and product strategy.\n5. Communicate with the board\nReport to the Martell Ventures board on roadmap progress, product performance, technical health, risks, and investment needs.\nCommunicate complex technical decisions in clear business terms.\nSurface issues early and bring thoughtful recommendations, not just problems.\nWhat You Bring\n7+ years building and operating production software, including experience leading a small team, contractors, or a technical function.\nA strong track record as a hands-on builder who can own systems from architecture through deployment and operations.\nExperience shipping AI-enabled product features and working with modern AI models, tools, and development workflows.\nStrong product judgment and the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.\nExperience building reliable systems and owning uptime, security, performance, cost, and incident response.\nThe ability to create clarity, set standards, and keep a small team moving quickly without adding unnecessary process.\nClear communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives and boards.\nHigh ownership, sound judgment, and comfort operating in an early-stage environment where priorities evolve quickly.\nSuccess Looks Like (First 120 Days)\nAgentic pipeline. 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