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Bearing AI - FrontEnd Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community.
About Bearing AI:
Bearing is at the forefront of bringing AI to the maritime shipping industry. This is a trillion dollar industry that moves 90% of the goods we interact with on a daily basis, but has traditionally lagged far behind other industries in adopting new technologies. At Bearing, we’re changing that. We’re building an AI-driven platform that helps shipping companies dramatically streamline their operations and tackle their single biggest pain point. We’ve already built our first product and have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our partners. Our team is made up of highly experienced AI engineers and tech industry veterans and we’re backed by the AI Fund and shipping industry investors.
What You Will be Doing:
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Front-End Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of our WebApp and will collaborate closely with our designer and back-end engineering team. Since you’ll be joining an early-stage startup at the ground level, you’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment.
Transform UI/UX wireframes into a full-featured WebApp: You will lead the development of our new WebApp, making it easier for our customers to access our core product. This will require close collaboration with both the engineering and product teams.
Own the front-end stack and lead front-end architecture efforts: As the lead Front-End Engineer you’ll be responsible for defining and owning the front-end development experience. You will also need to architect efficient and reusable front-end modules and systems that support scale.
Ensure a high quality user experience through high quality code: The WebApp will be the main customer touch point for our product. As a result, it will not only need to be intuitive it will also need to be reliable and secure. You will be responsible for ensuring that WebApp meets our SLAs and fails gracefully if there are any back-end issues.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
• 3+ years professional experience shipping front-end code
• Strong computer science foundations
• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/jQueryExperience with ReactJS or Angular
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and working with JSON
• Understanding of key UI/UX principles
• Proficiency with version control systems, such as Git
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people
• Excellent English language skills
• BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
• Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
Nice to Haves:
• Graphic design skills
• Experience with Machine Learning products
• Experience working on logistics or shipping-related products
• Experience with Agile development
What We Have to Offer:
• Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
• A week off between Christmas and New Year’s
• Medical Insurance coverage through SURA for you and family members.
• Monthly education budget
• Commuter benefits
• Collegial atmosphere
• Direct and transparent communication style
• Innovative environment
• Work with global AI Leaders
• Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Bearing AI - Senior Full Stack Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community.
About Bearing AI:
Bearing is at the forefront of bringing AI to the maritime shipping industry. This is a trillion dollar industry that moves 90% of the goods we interact with on a daily basis, but has traditionally lagged far behind other industries in adopting new technologies. At Bearing, we’re changing that. We’re building an AI-driven platform that helps shipping companies dramatically streamline their operations and tackle their single biggest pain point. We’ve already built our first product and have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our partners. Our team is made up of highly experienced AI engineers and tech industry veterans and we’re backed by the AI Fund and shipping industry investors.
What You Will be Doing:
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Full-Stack Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for building out our API to support our new WebApp as well as helping us develop new AI-driven products. Since you’ll be joining an early-stage startup at the ground level, you’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment.
Lead the development of a RESTful API to support our new WebApp: Collaborating closely with the rest of our engineering team, you will architect and build out a scalable, reliable back-end for our new WebApp.
Architect and implement new features from scratch: Partnering with our Machine Learning engineers, you will lead the end-to-end development of new AI-driven products.
Improve code across the entire stack: You will identify bugs and performance issues across the stack and work to improve those. You will also build performance monitoring and testing tools to ensure our product quality stays high.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
• 5+ years professional experience shipping production-ready code
• Strong computer science foundations, including data structures & algorithms, OS, Computer Networks, databases
• Expertise in Python
• Experience in setting up data pipelines and databases
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience developing RESTful APIs
• Basic understanding of Machine Learning models
• Expertise with version control systems, such as Git
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux systems
• Experience with Amazon AWS and containerization technologies
• Excellent English language skills
• BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
• Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
Nice to Haves:
• Experience shipping Machine Learning products
• Experience working on logistics or shipping-related products
• Experience with Agile development
What We Have to Offer:
• Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
• A week off between Christmas and New Year’s
• Medical Insurance coverage through SURA for you and family members.
• Monthly education budget
• Commuter benefits
• Collegial atmosphere
• Direct and transparent communication style
• Innovative environment
• Work with global AI Leaders
• Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Digital Marketing Manager Palo Alto, CA
Workera (a deeplearning.ai company) is the assessment platform that evaluates the skills of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers. It provides applicants with performance feedback, learning plans, certification, and referrals to the best jobs in AI, and helps companies establish top performing AI teams.
We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Manager to help grow our community of job seekers (B2C) and corporate clients (B2B). In this role, you will help lay the foundation of our marketing efforts. You’ll help optimize our digital marketing operations, and be the leader of content and social media, events strategies. You’ll be responsible for developing and executing data-driven digital marketing campaigns, with an emphasis on content marketing. As an early member of the Workera team, you will play a strategically important role in shaping the direction and vision of our brand.
Here’s what you’ll do:
Drive keyword discovery, competitive research, and web page optimization using SEO best practices and platforms such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Moz/SEMRush, and A/B testing platforms.Plan, implement, and optimize new paid search campaigns (e.g., SEM, Google Display/Search, Facebook campaigns) in accordance with predefined KPIs on an ongoing basis.Execute content marketing strategies and develop key messaging that resonates with target audiences.Work with key stakeholders to develop digital marketing campaigns that support key moments including product launches, events, and partnership announcements. Compile and present reports to evaluate marketing performance, and learn information about our users, and segment them appropriately into distinct categories.
Here’s the skills you should have:
Direct experience with leveraging marketing automation tools to execute successful data-driven growth campaigns.Demonstrated ability to run creative and fun marketing campaigns. Proven ability to develop meaningful growth metrics and lead marketing campaigns end-to-end, from planning to execution, to reach those results. Experience developing strategies for 2-3 marketing channels in parallel, and gauge the success and go-forward strategy for each channel based on performance metrics. Experience in developer marketing, and engaging with developer communities, is highly preferred.Experience with B2B lead generation is highly preferred.
What you get working with us:
Being part of a world-class technical team working alongside offices in different parts of the world.The opportunity to consolidate a quickly growing startup.Access to state of the art infrastructure and technology.By working with us, you will have access to top-level training, and the opportunity to try high impact ideas.
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
Strong work ethic. All of us believe in our work’s ability to change human lives, and consequently, work not just smart, but also hard.Growth mindset. We are eager to teach you new skills and invest in your continual development. But learning is hard work, so this is something we hope you’ll want to do.Team oriented. We care and watch out for each other. We’re humble individually and go after big goals together.Flexibility. You should be flexible in your tasks and do whatever is needed, ranging from lower-level tasks like scheduling to high level recruiting strategy.
What we offer: Workera offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, a monthly education stipend, flexible PTO and much more.
At Workera we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. deeplearning.ai believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
FourthBrain - Founder in Residence Palo Alto, CA
About AI Fund:
AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward.
Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. AI Fund is uniquely positioned to build AI businesses that can make an immediate and decisive impact.
About FourthBrain:
Students across the US now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. Our team, mostly from Stanford, has collectively educated more people in machine learning than any other organization in the world. The Company will run a blended-learning program that trains existing engineers to become machine-learning experts.
What You Will Be Doing:
- You’ll be the public face of the company, including setting up partnerships with local organizations and customers around the world
- You’ll set overall strategic direction and work relentlessly on execution.
- You’ll build and operate scalable training program, resulting in students being qualified for machine learning jobs upon graduation
- You’ll establish and oversee a recruiting engine that sources qualified candidates and is matched by a strong pipeline of employers for these students upon graduation.
- You’ll build and manage a world class team to scale all aspects of the company, in order to serve thousands of students
What You Must Bring:
- Previous management experience. You’ll be leading a team, and should have a strong track record of management and business/executive leadership.
- Experience in the education profession, specifically student facing educational businesses with technology angle.
- Strategic thinking. You should be able to understand a complex environment and distill a clear and thoughtful direction.
- Previous startup experience or experience with small teams. You will be joining in a very early stage and should be comfortable with ambiguity. You will own scaling the company and have operations experience.
- Exceptional track record of personal and organizational accomplishments.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with curriculum development
- Ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
HealthCare AI Founder-in-Residence Palo Alto, CA
As a Founder in Residence, you will be joining the team at the ground floor to ideate and incubate a new AI Fund portfolio company. You will be working with a small team to validate and build an AI + healthcare company with a focus on administrative, rather than clinical, applications. As a Founder-in-Residence, you will be the leader of this entrepreneurial endeavor, owning the creation and building of an innovative, high growth company in collaboration with the AIFund team.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Working with a small AI Fund team to develop a high growth AI company in the healthcare administration space
- Define the critical pain point/opportunity area the team will pursue
- Develop, test, and iterate on an MVP
- Build relationships with key stakeholders and potential customers
- Define, assess, and develop early GTM opportunities
- Build and lead a high-performing team of engineers, operators, and sector experts
What You Must Bring:
- Previous entrepreneurial experience or experience working with a small, scrappy team that is building new products and/or solutions
- Strong network in the healthcare space, preferably in administration/operations
- Experience selling high-value technology projects into enterprise or government customers or conducting business development around high-level strategic partnerships
- Strong customer discovery and product development skills
- Experience in setting and refining strategic direction
Nice To Haves:
- Experience in sectors that often deal with regulation, such as government, finance services, or healthcare sectors
- Technical background
- Experience in healthcare administration from the vantage point of multiple stakeholders (e.g. payer and provider)
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Partner - Business & Strategy Palo Alto, CA
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
What You Will be Doing:
AI Fund is looking for a senior executive to assist with our process of systematically ideating, validating, building and launching AI companies. You will participate in ideation of new companies, and will be responsible for helping to give strategic guidance to multiple companies at many different stages, ranging from an idea to Series A or B funded companies. Depending on your background and the needs of the fund, you might also end up focusing on companies in one or a small handful of sectors (such as AI+education, AI+healthcare, etc.) Especially in the earlier stages, you will be playing a very active role in shaping the company to ready the company for Series A funding and launch.
- Drive the process for companies through multiple stages of startup creation and launch. Be the single point of contact on behalf of AIF during the multiple stages of startup creation stages to ensure that all milestones are met and on track.
- Provide strategic guidance to our portfolio companies and help them pivot or conduct change management as necessary.
- Be part of the team to continually improve startup creation process.
- As part of AI Fund’s leadership team (CFT), provide oversight and guidance over the fund.
What You Must Bring:
- Previous executive management experience.
- Strong strategic thinker.
- Prior experience assessing a multitude of business situations and driving to a clear and logical strategy.
- Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
- Recent hands-on experience helping startups with pivoting in business related strategy and change management.
- Strong connections and network in the valley to make relevant introductions that will further our portfolio companies in landing first POCs or first customers.
- Been with multiple companies at the pre-product and pre-revenue stage and seeing company growth from 0 to 1.
Nice to Haves
- Successful exits in the past.
- Previous advisory experience advising early stage companies.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement:
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Product Marketing Consultant Palo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
(This will be a 3-4 month consultant role, requires working full time in Palo Alto)
What you will be doing:
Builds the best AI solutions to solve today’s critical issues in healthcare, financial services, human capital, logistics and more. This is not your traditional product marketing job, as you will be part of the Startup Studio’s investment team that assess market needs, understands customer pain points, and ideates on how to best solve a given problem. Once the idea is funded, you will cycle back to create the next best idea.
Work on a cross-functional team
You will be the product marketing lead that works on uncovering customer insights and spot opportunities ahead of time. You will keep the team on track to be able to succinctly explain core customer insights, market drivers, product/service benefits, value-based messaging, amongst other things.
Strategy
You will deeply understand a given marketplace and help define the "why," "what," and "when" in the build process, and develop key messages that offer unique value propositions to the stakeholders, as well as how it stands out from the competition. You have deep experience understanding product/services landscapes, competitive analysis, competitive threats, and can anticipate market shifts.
Customer development
Your focus will be to study the market to uncover a need in a marketplace and understand key stakeholder personas and pain points. You will thrive on talking to customers to understand and validate their pain points. As you move through the build process, you will develop scenarios on how to best solve the pain points of the stakeholders and help move the process through to ideation and then to an MVP.
Go-to-market
You have been there and done that and know what it takes to get a product/service to market. How will you get to the right audience, with the best solution at the right time? With your expertise, you will be the lead for developing go-to-market recommendations for the idea to succeed.
What you must bring:
Must Haves:
Minimum 8 years of product marketing or related experience in tech industries
Previous product marketing experience
Previous marketing or sales experience
Sound business acumen
Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience
Must exhibit hands on, roll up your sleeves qualities
Strong analytical skills
Have represented technology companies and solutions
Bachelor's Degree and MBA preferred
Nice to Haves:
Experience with AI products
Experience in healthcare related industries
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Rustle - Chief Technology Officer Palo Alto, CA
AI is the new electricity: Just as electricity transformed numerous industries starting 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. AI Fund is a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up. Our companies bridge AI technology and applications, focusing on industries and problems that we believe move the world forward. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, our team merges a deep understanding of AI technology with a proven ability to start new ventures. We have a unique business model that prepares founding members of a portfolio company with technical validation of the idea, experienced back office operational support and our team’s AI know how as well as connections within the AI community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of an exciting AI Venture Firm and through it, grow its portfolio.
About Rustle:
Rustle’s mission is to create the most effective way for customers and companies to interact, leveraging AI, natural-language processing, and a mobile-first interface. We believe the outdated model of the customer contact center, and its huge IT and organizational cost, that has been in-place for over 50 years is due for a reset. We believe the existing model is frustrating and demotivating for both customers and customer service agents. We believe customers want a faster, easier, more satisfying way to interact with companies; and that companies want a less expensive, more transparent, and more flexible way of nurturing their customer relationships. We believe that if companies and customers could design their ideal way of communicating, that it would not involve contact centers, CRM systems and case numbers, but a seamless, personalized, empowered experience. Rustle is building that experience.
What You Will be Doing:
-Develop Rustle’s overall technology strategy and software architecture
-Evaluate buy/build/partner options and implement systems infrastructure
-Ensure security, scalability and performance of overall technology infrastructure
-Manage an initial 3-person technical team and grow that team, initially with two open headcount
-Evangelize the company’s technology plan, capabilities and vision with executives, customers, investors, employees and other key stakeholders
-Work intimately with early customers, both end users and enterprises, to rapidly incorporate feedback and build an optimal product solution
-Align company’s technology development plan with the company’s business goals
-Develop unique, proprietary (and ideally patentable) intellectual property that yields competitive advantage
-Drive system infrastructure decisions to ensure performance and capital efficiency
-Define quality assurance, security, compliance and data protection processes
-Manage within target KPIs, project timelines, and overall budgetary goals
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
-8-10 years of experience, both as an individual contributor and manager.
-Entrepreneurial spirit -- someone who can simultaneously think big, but also grounded in the immediate, practical, get-stuff-done mindset of a startup.
-Previous startup experience is the best way to evaluate this skill.
-Strategic vision -- need someone who is passionate about what we are doing and how it will make our customers’ lives better.
-Deep knowledge of the latest technologies and engineering trends, tools and platforms. Excellent written and verbal communication skills -- both interpersonal as well as presentation and customer-facing skills.
-Understanding of budgets and project planning with an adept ability to prioritize and focus on the most critical projects first.
-Ability to conduct technology analyses/evaluations, infrastructure decisions and deep code reviews.
-Hands-on development expertise, particularly in AI, machine learning, NLP or related field, with the ability to write and review code themselves.
-Deep leadership and organizational development skills, with the ability to attract, assess, hire and retain top technical talent.
-Growth mindset with a love of solving problems and a willingness to know one’s own knowledge limitations.
-BSc/BA in Computer Science/Engineering from top-tier institution.
-Previous technical leadership experience required at least at a director level.
-Well-tuned organizational skills, translating to predictable delivery and deadline achievement, along with the ability to consider prioritization trade-offs.
Nice to Haves:
-Prior experience as a CTO and member of an executive/founding team a plus
-Masters/PhD in Computer Science or an MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.
-Located in the Bay Area and willing to work from our Palo Alto office preferred, but open to remote candidates.
Characteristics
Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity.
Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future.
Grit: able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times.
High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure.
Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively able to get things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation.
Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.
Workera - Co-Founder/Sr. Executive Palo Alto, CA
Workera (a deeplearning.ai company) is the assessment platform that evaluates the skills of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers. It provides applicants with performance feedback, learning plans, certification, and referrals to the best jobs in AI, and helps companies establish top performing AI teams.
About Workera:
Workera is building a self-assessment platform connecting job seekers to employers in AI. The product is a two-sided marketplace where:
- Workera candidates (i) are tested with skill-based assessments, (ii) receive personalized feedback, and (iii) are referred to jobs they like. Our value propositions to candidates include self-assessment, career guidance, interview preparation and job referrals.
- Workera partners (i) define precise requirements curated by Workera, (ii) receive statistics regarding the talent availability for the roles they define and (iii) select qualified referrals on a dashboard. Our value propositions to partners include helping them frame their needs strategically, and quick access to unbiasedly vetted talent.
What You Will be Doing:
- Strategy and Planning. You will participate in shaping company strategy. This includes Positioning, Go-To-Market and Marketing strategies.
- Executive leadership. Ability to grow, manage and scale a sizable team. S/he should have prior experience managing and mentoring at least teams of size about 25 or larger, ideally even much larger. S/he should also help Workera put in place sound management systems and processes to ensure smooth running of the organization.
- Business Leadership. S/he will be responsible for building up the business functions of the company. This includes finding and selling to Workera’s enterprise customers, and maintaining relationships over time as we help companies hire better using Workera’s technology and processes. S/he will also manage the recruiting team supporting our placement business and monitor their performance.
- Marketing and Customer Aquisition. Able to oversee the company’s marketing activities, and drive both B2C and B2B customer acquisition through marketing.
Must Haves:
- Strong business experience, including commercialization and Go-to-market experience
- B2B sales experience, including the ability to manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing
- B2C user acquisition experience to build up a community
- Experience growing small teams in a fast moving environment, and experience managing at 25+ employees
- Proven ability to help drive corporate strategy and select the right points of focus to grow a business
Nice to Haves:
- Experience in an early stage startup, either as an early employee, founder, or advisor
- Field experience in two-sided marketplaces, recruiting, and/or assessment
- Experience leading high-growth teams
What we offer: Workera offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, a monthly education stipend, flexible PTO and much more.
At Workera we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. deeplearning.ai believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
You must already have, or be able to obtain, authorization to work in the United States.