Chief AI Officer Softoria $$$
Madfish
Software Engineering, Data Science
Remote
Posted on May 10, 2026
About: Softoria is the Ukrainian software development company serving a multi-entity tech portfolio (DataForSEO, DataImpulse, ZoogVPN, FinImpulse). The CAIO drives AI adoption across every function - owns outcomes, not slideware.
Responsibilities:
- Embed AI in sales, marketing, and operations - automate repetitive work, augment decisions, measure impact in hours saved and revenue moved
- Design, build, and deploy internal AI agents (support, research, lead enrichment, ops, finance)
- Ship small projects and internal tools via vibe coding - fast iteration, working software over specs
- Lead AI R&D - evaluate frontier models, test new capabilities, productize what works
- Set AI standards across portfolio companies: tooling, security, prompt patterns, data handling, evals
- Hire and lead a lean AI team; partner with department heads on adoption
Must-have:
- 1+ years shipping AI/ML products; deep hands-on with LLMs, agents, RAG, function calling
- MCP - production experience with Model Context Protocol (servers, clients, tool integration)
- n8n and/or Make.com - built and operated real agents and automation flows in production
- Proven record of automating real business workflows end-to-end (not demos)
- Operates autonomously, ships weekly, owns metrics
Interview requirements - candidate must:
- Demo working agents they built (live, not screenshots)
- Walk through n8n / Make.com flows in production use
- Describe at least 2 non-standard AI implementations in real business processes
- Show internal tools they vibe coded and how teams actually use them
Nice to have: B2B SaaS or data infrastructure background; experience with vector DBs, BigQuery, eval frameworks.
Reports to: CEO