3. Lead a small, high-performing team

• Coordinate engineers and contractors around clear outcomes, priorities, and standards.
• Create the context, feedback loops, and accountability needed for people to do their best work.
• Identify when to hire, contract, automate, or simplify as the company grows.

4. Partner with the Business Leader

• Turn customer insight and business priorities into a focused product and engineering roadmap.
• Balance speed, quality, cost, and technical risk when making decisions.
• Bring technical judgment into company planning, resource allocation, and product strategy.

5. Communicate with the board

• Report to the Martell Ventures board on roadmap progress, product performance, technical health, risks, and investment needs.
• Communicate complex technical decisions in clear business terms.
• Surface issues early and bring thoughtful recommendations, not just problems.

What You Bring

• 7+ years building and operating production software, including experience leading a small team, contractors, or a technical function.
• A strong track record as a hands-on builder who can own systems from architecture through deployment and operations.
• Experience shipping AI-enabled product features and working with modern AI models, tools, and development workflows.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• Experience building reliable systems and owning uptime, security, performance, cost, and incident response.
• The ability to create clarity, set standards, and keep a small team moving quickly without adding unnecessary process.
• Clear communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives and boards.
• High ownership, sound judgment, and comfort operating in an early-stage environment where priorities evolve quickly.

Success Looks Like (First 120 Days)

• Agentic pipeline. Winly's development workflow has been rebuilt around AI agents—from planning and implementation through testing, review, documentation, and deployment.
• Team adoption. Every engineer and contractor is effectively using the pipeline, with clear standards, shared workflows, and documented best practices.
• Quality guardrails. Automated tests, CI/CD, code review, monitoring, and human approval points allow agents to move quickly without compromising reliability or security.
• Measurable leverage. Development velocity, cycle time, release frequency, and quality are measured, with clear evidence that the team is shipping faster and more consistently.
• Hands-on leadership. You are actively contributing code while continuously improving the systems that multiply the output of the entire team.
• Scalable foundation. The Business Leader and Martell Ventures board have a clear view of the pipeline's performance, risks, and roadmap for further automation.