Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO) - ScraperAPI

We recently acquired Traject Data, home of SerpWow and Rainforest API, and now run an end-to-end data pipeline: from proxy and scraping infrastructure through to structured, ready-to-use data APIs. The next chapter is turning that into one coherent, AI-native platform, and we’re looking for a CTPO to lead the combined 25-person product and engineering org through it. You’ll report directly to the CEO, sit at the leadership table, and be the person who understands the stack down to the proxy layer while also setting where the product goes next.

Your immediate impact in the first 3-6 months will be:

• Get hands-on with the heart of the product: proxy dynamics and anti-bot evasion, working directly with our Head of Ops to optimize vendor relationships and build up capacity.
• Build real fluency in the product and the backend so you can operate as a genuine technical sparring partner to the CEO, not just receive direction.
• Start bringing the ScraperAPI and Traject Data infrastructure together on a coherent technical roadmap.

Your responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product and technology strategy across our scraping infrastructure, proxy networks, and structured data API products (ScraperAPI, SerpWow, Rainforest API).
• Lead, scale, and develop a 25+ person product and engineering organization spanning multiple countries and time zones, building the management structure it needs as it grows.
• Set technical architecture direction for high-scale, high-reliability infrastructure, including proxy management, anti-bot evasion, and large-scale scraping systems.
• Drive AI and modern ML tooling into both the product itself and how the team builds and ships it.
• Define and execute one product roadmap across the merged ScraperAPI and Traject Data lines.
• Represent product and technology to the board, and work closely with the CEO and commercial leadership to keep product direction and business strategy aligned.
• Stay close enough to the code and infrastructure to go in and troubleshoot, fix, or challenge a technical decision yourself when it matters.

What You bring to the table

• Experience leading product and/or engineering at a highly technical company (CTO, CPO, VP Engineering or similar), at a 25+ person org or larger.
• Real hands-on depth in web scraping, proxies, or closely adjacent infrastructure. You understand the operational reality of this space and you don’t rattle when a source breaks overnight and it’s suddenly all hands on deck.
• A genuine track record with AI/ML, both shaping AI-powered product capability and pushing AI-native ways of working through an engineering team.
• Experience owning product vision and technical architecture together, not just one side of that line.
• Comfort operating at board level: a clear communicator who can hold their own with an ambitious, hands-on CEO and knows when to push back.
• Bonus: experience integrating product lines after a merger or acquisition.