AI-First Leadership

About the role

🎯 AI-first leadership hiring — this is where we started, and where we're strongest. SmartScale partners with startups and scale-ups to match them with the leaders who will shape how their organizations work in the AI era. Leadership hiring is our core niche: placing people who can combine deep domain authority with a genuinely AI-native way of leading, building, and scaling teams — because leadership itself looks different than it did three years ago. If you've led through this shift already, or you're ready to lead the next stage of it, we should talk. We're actively searching for AI-first leaders across: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) VP Engineering / Head of Engineering Chief Product Officer / VP Product Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) / VP Sales VP Marketing / CMO VP People / Head of People (CHRO) CFO / VP Finance COO General Manager (regional expansion) 📍 Leadership mandates across Europe, for startups and scale-ups entering their next stage of growth. 👉 Want to talk about where AI-first leadership is headed? Reach out — let's talk about where you'd fit.