About the job

Location: Remote

Stage: Early revenue, scaling

Equity: Founder-level (true co-founder, meaningful ownership)

Build the AI workforce for SMBs

Lieutenant is building the first AI workforce platform—deploying AI employees that execute real work across a company’s workflows. Not copilots. Not assistants.

AI employees that operate in the background.

We already have:

Working product + live demos (multi-agent workflows in production)
Real-world use cases (deal origination, pipeline management, workflow automation)
Clear wedge (revenue & operations workflows)
Early validation from operators and investors

This is not an idea.

This is a system already doing real work—ready to scale.

The Role

You will own the entire technical vision and execution:

Build and scale the AI workforce architecture (multi-agent systems, orchestration, memory)
Ship production-ready agents that execute workflows end-to-end
Architect integrations across core systems (CRM, email, messaging, data sources)
Optimize for reliability, autonomy, and real-world execution (not demos)
Lead technical hiring and build the engineering team

This is a 0→1 builder role, not a manager role.

What You’ll Be Building

AI agents that take action, not just generate text
Multi-agent coordination systems (agents working together across workflows)
Persistent memory layer across fragmented business data
Real-time workflow execution across systems (email, CRM, internal tools)
Infrastructure that enables AI employees to operate like real team members

Who This Is For

Senior full-stack engineer / technical founder / staff+ level engineer
Has built and shipped products end-to-end (0→1 experience required)
Thinks in systems, not features
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving fast
Deep interest in AI agents, infrastructure, or workflow automation
Obsessed with building products that actually get used daily

Who This Is NOT For

Managers who don’t code
People optimizing for stability over speed
Anyone looking to “experiment with AI” without owning outcomes

Equity

Founder-level equity (co-founder track)
Meaningful ownership with long-term upside

Why This Is Interesting

The next wave of AI is not tools—it’s labor replacement
SMBs don’t want software—they want work done automatically
Every company is currently stitching together tools with no coordination

We’re building:

The system that runs workflows across an entire company
Not the “Harvey of X.”
The layer above it.

The Opportunity

Define a new category: AI Workforce for SMBs
Build infrastructure that replaces entire layers of labor
Work directly with the founder on product, architecture, and vision
Own one of the most important technical problems in AI:
turning intelligence into reliable execution

Co-Founder CTO (Pre-Seed Stage Startup)

Benefits