D-Tools, Inc. 

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

D-Tools, Inc.

Location: Eastern or Central U.S. time zone (slight preference for Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC)

Reports to: CEO

Commitment: Full-time

Compensation: Competitive base + performance-based variable compensation + equity participation

About D-Tools

For nearly three decades, D-Tools has been the technology backbone of the audiovisual integration industry. Our software powers the proposals, designs, and workflows that more than 10,000 users at thousands of AV integration firms depend on every day. Our product catalog of over 2 million items is the most comprehensive data asset in the industry.

We are on a strong growth trajectory: building new services on our SaaS foundation, investing in the business, and investing aggressively in AI. We operate a legacy enterprise platform alongside a modern cloud solution, and both are growing. There is a lot happening at D-Tools right now: a fast wave of product releases with more debuting at industry events like CEDIA, InfoComm and ISE, a recent investment that widens what we deliver to customers, and a team energized about what is next.

The Opportunity

AI is the defining inflection point for the software industry, and D-Tools intends to lead that transition in our market. This is a CTO role for a builder, not a maintainer. We have the market position, the customer trust, and the data moat. What we need is a technology leader who can build on that foundation and accelerate the next phase of growth.

You will partner with a strong Chief Product Officer who came to us through our recent investment and now owns product strategy across the portfolio. That partnership frees you to focus on where you do your best work: architecture, engineering culture, AI in product, and shipping. You will not carry the product remit. You will carry the engineering remit alongside a peer who is already an expert at leading product. If you do your best work turning complexity into clarity and building teams that ship, keep reading.

What You Will Own

• Technology strategy, architecture, and execution across all D-Tools platforms, including the legacy enterprise platform (D-Tools SI) and our modern cloud solution (D-Tools Cloud), plus the platform that came in through our recent investment.
• A pragmatic roadmap to modernize the legacy platform while accelerating the cloud solution, protecting and growing revenue across both.
• The engineering operating model: in-house teams (onshore and offshore), third-party partners, pace, quality, and reliability.
• AI in two dimensions: shipping customer-facing AI features that change how integrators work, and driving AI-augmented development that changes how our teams ship.
• Technical due diligence and post-investment integration as we continue to expand what we deliver.
• Engineering talent development, with a focus on strengthening domestic technical leadership to complement our global workforce.

Who You Are

You have written code, designed systems, and led teams that shipped products customers depend on. Your career is in product development and engineering, building customer-facing vertical B2B SaaS. You have shipped real customer-facing products with real users and revenue attached. You have led architecture that survived scale. You may not write production code every day, but you are still close to it: reviewing pull requests when it matters, sketching architectures on a whiteboard, and using modern AI development tools yourself, not just having your team use them. Whether you have been a CTO or you are a VP or Director of Engineering ready for the seat, what matters is what you have shipped recently and where you are heading.

This is a full-time role. You are ready to make D-Tools your singular focus, your next chapter.

Required

• Eight or more years of progressive engineering leadership building customer-facing software. CTO, VP of Engineering, Senior Director, or Director of Engineering ready for the next-step CTO seat. What matters is the trajectory, the substance, and what has shipped, not the title or tenure.
• Deep, recent B2B SaaS recurring-revenue experience. You have built and shipped products in industries where software is the system of record (construction, field service, manufacturing, professional services, integration verticals, or similar). Enterprise IT, systems integration consulting, and payments backbones do not qualify on their own.
• Real, recent, personal AI-in-product experience. In the last two years, you have shipped customer-facing AI features that customers use every day (agents, copilots, RAG-based intelligence, workflow automation), and you personally use GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent as a working part of your practice, not as an observer.
• Real architecture launches at scale. You have designed and led the buildout of production systems (cloud-native architectures, API platforms, multi-tenant data models, or the equivalent) that support real customer load, not internal proofs of concept.
• Built and led engineering organizations in the 25-to-100 person range, including in-house onshore teams paired with offshore engineers.
• Direct experience with technical due diligence and post-investment integration: platform consolidation, evaluation of acquired technology, and unification of engineering teams.
• Strong software engineering foundation: hands-on architecture, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), API design, DevOps, and CI/CD. Clear, direct communicator with executives, product leaders, customers, and boards.

Preferred

PE-backed, investor-owned, or high-growth SaaS environment experience, including board reporting and diligence exposure. Success in a small or midsize, resource-constrained company where the CTO is close to the work. Familiarity with the electronic systems integration or AV industry and the mindset of its buyers. Based in or willing to relocate to Atlanta or Charlotte.

What Drives You

Beyond experience, we care about character. Three principles define the culture we are building:

Passion. You care deeply about building great software and the impact it has on real customers. That energy is contagious.

Humility. You listen before you prescribe. You give credit freely and own it when things go sideways. No room for egos.

Curiosity. You ask why before you ask how. You are drawn to problems you have not solved before, and you push the people around you to think bigger.

 

Application and Nomination 

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. To apply for this position, please email a position-specific cover letter and resume to Jennifer N. Hiatt at jennifer@greybullstewardship.com. Nominations may be emailed to the same email address. Applicants needing reasonable accommodations to participate in the applications process should contact Jennifer N. Hiatt directly at 307-249-1161.