Creativedock is building a portfolio of new ventures with our client, spanning manufacturing quality, production, data infrastructure, automation, and supply chain provenance. A discovery phase has mapped 16 investable concepts across 5 strategic themes — each with its own venture thesis and market/regulatory clock.

We are recruiting founding leadership to take one of these concepts from validation and pilot to a fundable, scalable business. As Founder, you will own the technical direction and build from the first prototype through scale, partnering directly with a Founder/ Product Lead and backed by Creativedock's venture-building team and client's industrial network.

What You'll Do

- Technical Architecture: Define and own the technical architecture, adjusting as constraints clarify.
- Engineering Leadership: Build and lead the early engineering effort—hiring when appropriate, building hands-on when needed.
- Stack & Tooling Strategy: Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions balancing speed against long-term flexibility.
- Customer Pilot Validation: Validate technology directly with pilot customers, working alongside plant engineers and IT/OT teams in real production environments.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and compliant—including data privacy and OT-specific security considerations for factory systems.
- Investment Gate Diligence: Own technical due diligence at each gate, translating technical risks and progress for the steering board.
- Co-Founder Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Founder on product roadmaps, sequencing, and engineering resource allocation.

- What You Could Be Building Concepts are matched to your background and conviction during the recruitment process. Technical surface areas across the current portfolio include:

- Computer Vision & Applied ML: Catching defects, damage, or quality issues from sensor and image data in manufacturing environments.
- Industrial Data Platforms & Integration:



Unifying data across shop-floor and enterprise systems (MES, PLC, ERP, LIMS) while securing against OT-specific threats.
- Real-time & Predictive Software: Optimizing production scheduling, inventory, and capacity-matching decisions.
- Robotics & Automation: Control software, connectors, and orchestration for adaptable, modular production equipment.
- Traceability & Provenance Systems: Verifying and recording product journeys from raw material to the field.

- Note: You do not need experience across all domains—a strong pattern of architecting/shipping 0-to-1 technical products and rapid domain acquisition is what matters most.

What We're Looking For

- 0-to-1 Track Record: Proven experience taking a product from prototype to production as a technical founder or lead.
- Hands-on Depth: Current coding and architecture experience—this is an active builder's role, especially in early stages.
- Domain Expertise: Experience in at least one key domain (e.g., CV/ML, industrial data integration, IoT/OT systems, robotics, enterprise data platforms).
- Pragmatic Mindset: Lean build instincts focused on shipping early, learning, and iterating quickly.
- Communication & Leadership: Ability to translate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders/investors and act as a full partner in product decisions.
- Languages: Fluent English; German is a plus.

Nice to Have

- Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or OT-connected environments.
- Exposure to securing OT/industrial systems.
- Production experience with robotics or applied computer vision.
- Previous experience as a startup CTO or technical co-founder.

What We Offer

- Founder Equity: A meaningful founder stake in the venture you build with real upside.
- Venture Support: Dedicated methodology, coaching, operating capital, and proven build processes from validation through launch.
- Network: Direct access to clients as a design partner, pilot site, and engineering sounding board.
- True Founding Journey: The opportunity to build a company from scratch, rather than joining an existing entity.

📌 Technical Lead / Founder (Barcelona)
🏢 nFrontier by Creative Dock
📍 Barcelona