Spellbook Hires Former Shopify CTO as Executive Individual Contributor
Spellbook, the Ottawa-based contract AI company backed by Khosla Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, and Inovia Capital, has hired Jean-Michel Lemieux — former CTO of Shopify, former VP Engineering at Atlassian — in the role of Executive Individual Contributor, a designation the company describes as a "high-leverage operator" working across product, engineering, go-to-market, and internal systems.
BY TRANSATLANTIC DESK · JUNE 3, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
Spellbook, the Ottawa-based contract AI company backed by Khosla Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, and Inovia Capital, has hired Jean-Michel Lemieux — former CTO of Shopify, former VP Engineering at Atlassian — in the role of Executive Individual Contributor, a designation the company describes as a "high-leverage operator" working across product, engineering, go-to-market, and internal systems. CEO Scott Stevenson said AI is collapsing the functional boundaries that traditional management hierarchies were built around, and Lemieux's role is to build an AI-first operating system for the company itself. The hire signals Spellbook's intent to use AI-native operational design as a competitive moat alongside its contract intelligence product.