R&D Lead - Founding Team

We are seeking an R&D Lead to lead the development of Cloudinary for Agentic Commerce, a brand new Cloudinary product. The product focuses on owning the visual and semantic layer that AI agents rely on to understand, rank, and present products. We are a small, fast-moving, and highly independent team with full end-to-end ownership. The opportunity ahead is large: the “front door” of commerce is shifting from websites to AI agents, and merchants must adapt to be discovered, selected, and converted inside agent-driven experiences.

Lead and be accountable for all development efforts, with a co-founder / CTO-level mindset

Co-lead the pod alongside the GM as a true counterpart

Build a deep understanding of how AI agents consume product data, media, and signals,  and how merchants win selection and conversion in this new paradigm

Starting as a solo developer, you will be responsible for designing and shipping an AI-native product, growing a team when needed

Leverage Cloudinary’s platform to get to market quickly, building only what meaningfully advances learning and traction

Continuously adjust technical direction as agent behaviors, protocols, and market assumptions evolve