We're a profitable, founder-led consumer brand business selling across Europe, the UK, and the US — Amazon, Shopify, local marketplaces. We're betting our next decade on AI doing the execution while humans do the thinking. We need someone obsessed with that bet to lead it.
Apply nowWe have a Junior AI Developer in-house already — sharp, hungry, shipping his first automations. He needs a senior to learn from. We have ~50 people across the world running an e-commerce business at growth stage. This role sits at the center of how all of that gets reinvented over the next 3 years.
You will not manage SaaS contracts, write strategy decks, or run "digital transformation roadmaps." You will build the systems, enable the operations team to use them, and mentor a small team as it grows around you. This is one of the most important roles in the company right now — which is why you'll work directly with the CEO and the COO from day one.
Within 3–5 years, the majority of execution at CD Commerce should be handled by AI agents. Humans stay in the loop for decisions and for fine-tuning the agents, not for the work itself. That's the destination. Here's the road.
Vectorize the company's qualitative knowledge so AI can retrieve and act on it. Quantitative data already runs well via our analytics partner — you own the qualitative layer.
Production AI agents per function — listings, supplier comms, marketing, customer service, internal retrieval. Not toy demos. Systems the team relies on every day.
Specialists already vibe-code small tools with Claude and Cursor. You turn their prototypes into robust production apps — proper databases, deployments, security. You enable 50 people to build with AI, safely.
We're not hunting for the polished, top-of-class candidate — we've been there, it didn't work. We're hunting for someone who is smart, deeply passionate about AI, and committed enough to grow with us for years. A messy career detour, a non-traditional background, a "wrong turn" in your studies — none of that is a problem. Hunger and capability are.
You read the release notes on Friday night. You've already shipped a side project — a bot, an agent, a tool — that someone other than you uses. AI is not your job. It's what you'd do anyway.
Polished CV is optional. Sharp brain is not. You connect dots quickly, you're comfortable in the unknown, and you'd rather figure something out than wait for someone to explain it.
5–7 years in software development. Solid foundation in databases, deployment, security. When you see a problem, your instinct is to prototype it by Friday — not to write a strategy doc. Speed beats polish here.
Our team is distributed and mostly non-technical. You explain technical things plainly, write well in async, and you can carry a marketer or a sourcing manager along without making them feel slow.
If your CV shows five companies in the last three years, this is not for you. We're looking for someone who genuinely wants to build something here for the next 3+ years — not for the next stop on a tour. Stability matters because the work compounds.
We don't want to be average. We want to be the company other founders look at and ask "how did they do that with 50 people?" If that energy excites you — apply. If it sounds exhausting — don't.
CD Commerce is flat: no directors, no VPs — only "Head of" at the top. If you deliver, you move up quickly. We start you as Senior AI Developer on purpose, then grow you from there.
You ship the first production agents, build the knowledge base, mentor our Junior. We start you here on purpose — to see how you actually work before we hand over a team.
If you're delivering, this comes fast. You lead a focused team of 2–4 and own the AI roadmap end-to-end.
Part of the leadership team. The agent layer is real. The knowledge base is the company's nervous system. You decide where this scales next.
If you're good, you'll move fast. We promote on impact, not on tenure. If you're not, we'll have an honest conversation about it.
Around half of our department heads are based in the Philippines. Several of them joined as juniors and were promoted as their teams grew into their own departments. That's the trajectory we believe in: hire for capability and ambition, then get out of the way.
This is one of our highest priorities right now. Weekly sync with both. No middle layer, no politics. If you want to ship, you can ship.
We've grown at minimum 50% year over year for nine years straight. We expect the same in 2026, at our current size. You're joining a real, accelerating business — not a slide deck.
Claude, Cursor, n8n, vector DBs, model APIs — if it makes you faster, we pay for it. Best tools, not the cheapest ones.
We love rough prototypes. We test, learn, iterate. We don't worship process. Speed of learning beats polish at our stage.
If you deliver, AI Lead in 6–12 months and Head of AI by ~24 months. We promote on impact, not on tenure. The path is real.
We don't have a fixed salary range for this role. Tell us what you want — at start, after 1 year, after 2 years — and convince us why. If the value is there, we pay.
Tell us what you've built, what you'd build here, and why you read AI release notes for fun. Generic CVs go to the bottom of the pile.
Start your applicationDon't overthink this — short and honest beats long and polished. We'll reach out within 7 days.