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AI Fund - Principal 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 venture studio founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. Our portfolio companies utilize AI technology and applications to improve processes and efficiency. The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and operators. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms.
Our purpose is to build AI companies that move humanity forward.
What We Seek:
We are looking for an energetic Principal to join our investment team and help us identify the best early stage companies leveraging AI today and help our portfolio companies grow. As company builders, founders and investors ourselves we are looking to add a top new investment talent to our investment team to expand our investment practice. We welcome candidates who possess a growth mindset, strong analytical skills and ability to handle ambiguity.
What You Will be Doing:
Source early stage deal-flow. You will be responsible for generating deal flow and finding interesting companies to invest in. You will also be expected to network with other industry professionals or entities that bring proprietary deal flow to the fund as well as proactively prospect for opportunities.
Evaluate opportunities . You will evaluate investment opportunities, determine key issues, leverage your network and firm resources to perform due diligence. To do this successfully, we expect you to be a smart and logical thinker, to be able to learn quickly, and to seek out expert opinions.
Communicate with entrepreneurs and executives. To support deal sourcing and evaluation, you will communicate directly with entrepreneurs and executives. You will have to have to have strong people skills and strong communication skills, and be able to network and build rapport quickly.
Perform due diligence for potential new investments. You will be responsible for calling customer and personal references to validate companies and entrepreneurs and uncover any critical issues that we should consider in our investing.
Facilitate investments and support company building efforts. You will be responsible for investment memos, market analysis, financial models, and benchmarks that companies need to be aware of. You will attend board meetings as an observer, supporting the General Partner, and eventually on your own.
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
- MBA or demonstrated success as an entrepreneur.
- At least two years of experience post-MBA working at a US growth technology company in a product or engineering role or at a venture capital firm doing early stage investments.
- Strong people skills and have the ability to interact professionally with company founders and executives.
- Be a self-starter that takes initiative and can get a lot done with relatively little direction.
- Strong analytical and verbal skills.
Nice to Haves:
- AI and/or ML knowledge at a conceptual level.
- Entrepreneurial experience.
- Technical background, such as a technical undergraduate degree (engineering, math, science, and/or computer science)
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 country you will work from.
AI Fund - Senior Recruiter United States
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 an early stage venture firm founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. Our portfolio companies utilize AI technology and applications to improve processes and efficiency. The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and operators. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms.
Together, let’s build great companies that will move humanity forward.
What We Seek:
We are seeking an experienced senior recruiter at AI Fund who will work with our leadership team and hiring managers to identify VC-backable entrepreneurs to join our ecosystem. Successful candidates will understand the importance of creating a positive candidate experience and be results-oriented while keeping the bar high. Besides hiring executives/co-founders type of profile, you will also be responsible for recruiting non-executive roles as needed. You will wear multiple hats including business development (sourcing and networking), quality control when screening candidates entering the recruiting pipeline, facilitate the interview process, and close offers with reasonable costs and on a quick timeline.
What You Will be Doing:
You will work with hiring managers to identify recruiting needs. You need to sync with the company’s leadership team and hiring managers regularly to identify hiring needs and prioritize positions based on the portfolio company's goals. You will need to master the recruiting process and advise hiring managers on job market trends and compensation structure. For each portfolio company you support, you must understand their vision and their product inside and out in order to present the data in such a manner that attracts the best talents.
You will need to ensure positive candidate experience throughout the entire interview process. This includes things such as timely follow-up, interview scheduling, maintaining open and transparent dialogue with candidates as well as the entire hiring committee and your manager.
Source high quality talent for all positions. We typically are requested to find the initial founding team of a brand new startup which means quality and ability to match up skill sets and personalities to optimize team structure is critical. You will be responsible for identifying, reaching out to, and engaging talents for all functions as well as negotiate a compensation package that focuses on long term gain.
You will recommend and execute the best recruiting strategy. You need to know what the most effective channels are to hire for different positions. We expect the recruiter to know where the best talents congregate and find every opportunity to network with talents to get referrals and gain their trust. Run recruiting campaigns and run virtual or face to face events on a quarterly basis.
You will be able to learn and use different HR and recruiting systems to assist with managing the hiring process and recruiting funnel. You will be responsible to use our ATS system and other scheduling and recruiting related systems including Greenhouse, Lever, HackerRank, Linkedin and other systems. You need to assist with our recruiting committee to list any type of job posting (career page job post, Linkedin paid job post, other social media job post) in order to advertise and promote the job. You will utilize different tools and resources to promote the job, and manage the candidates from different channels and migrate any new candidate data into Lever for tracking.
You will be responsible to negotiate offers that focus on long-term incentives within a reasonable timeline. You need to build strong relationships with promising candidates by knowing what truly motivates the candidates. In most cases, candidates who join our ecosystem focus on the opportunities instead of short term financial return. You need to identify candidates’ concerns, present opportunities and involve hiring managers/executives to the closing process in the right timing to close the offer.
What you must bring:
- At least 7 years of hands-on senior level recruiting experience running the process from beginning to end with at least 3 years of experience working as an in-house recruiter.
- Experience working in hi-tech startups with a preference working with artificial intelligence applications.
- Healthy network of high quality candidates and/or demonstrate the ability to create a network of them.
- Excellent interpersonal ability; strong verbal and written communications and interpersonal relationship skills.
- Operational excellence. We expect you to be able to manage an efficient recruiting process - from sourcing, scheduling, screening to negotiating and closing offers - for multiple candidates simultaneously and constantly identify ways to improve the candidate experience.
- Attention to detail and multi-tasking. You’ll be juggling a lot of important projects at once. It will be important both drive them forward quickly and to pay attention to the details so balls don’t get dropped.
- Bachelor degree from a top university. Technical degree or marketing degree is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with applicant tracking systems, including Lever, is a strong plus.
Characteristics we value:
High Performer: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity. Always aim to deliver high quality results quickly.
Growth Mindset: keep an open mind about all possibilities and always reflect from within rather than look externally for reasons to not succeed.
Great Attitude. maintain an upbeat and positive attitude with everyone you come in contact with. Check any negative attitude or passive aggressive behavior at the door.
Scrappy: Take initiative and proactively get things done with low resources, but doing creative things and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation. Thinks quickly on both feet and are able to roll with the punches.
Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.
Bearing - Lead Product Manager North America
Bearing is an early-stage startup 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’ve built AI-enabled products that solve the shipping industry’s biggest pain points and already have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our customers.
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented product leader to join our small but growing team. This person will be responsible for leading core product efforts for Bearing. This will include defining new products, improving existing products and implementing product processes. We expect this person to be able to contribute on day one as an individually contributing Product Manager, but also to grow and help lead the product org. over time.
Since this person will be joining an early-stage startup they’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment.
What you’ll be doing:
- Defining detailed product roadmaps (to fit the company’s long-term vision): You will be responsible for defining, prioritizing and scoping product efforts related to new features for existing products as well as completely new product offerings. You will be responsible for aligning product efforts with quarterly and annual company goals.
- Generating PRDs: You will work closely with engineering and design to generate thorough PRDs for each of our product efforts.
- Establishing and enforcing product processes: You will help define the product org.’s role within the company, determine the product approval process as well as the desired interaction with design / engineering.
- Actively prioritizing engineering efforts and managing sprints through project management tools: You will be responsible for leading sprint planning, ticket creation and working with engineering leaders to actively manage team progress against plans.
- User research and customer outreach: You will conduct basic user research (both quantitative and qualitative) and lead efforts to gather customer feedback.
What you must bring:
- 2+ years of experience as a Product Manager
- 3+ years of experience working with agile processes
- Strong skills with standard project management tools (e.g., Jira)
- Strong skills with analytics tools (e.g., Amplitude)
- Experience running user experiments and a solid understanding of basic statistics
- Experience interviewing and surveying users
- Basic design and prototyping skills, preferably in Figma
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Nice if you have:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field
- Experience hiring and managing other Product Managers
- Experience working at Series C or earlier startup
- Experience working on enterprise Saas products
- Basic proficiency in software development
- Experience working with AI-enabled products
What we have to offer:
- Food benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Untracked PTO
- Variety of medical, dental and vision coverage to choose from
- 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 Bearing, 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. Bearing 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 - Senior Engineering Manager Medellín, Antioquia
Bearing is an early-stage startup 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’ve built AI-enabled products that solve the shipping industry’s biggest pain points and already have some of the world’s biggest shippers as our customers.
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Engineering Manager to add to our team. This person will work closely with our Chief Engineer and help with managing our growing team of engineers. This person will be responsible for helping our engineers be as productive as they can be as well as for helping to set engineering strategy and defining engineering processes.
Since this person will be joining an early-stage startup they’ll need to be able to wear multiple hats and thrive while working in a dynamic environment. This is a full-time role to based in Medellín, Colombia
What you’ll be doing:
- Help guide the engineering planning processes: Working with the Chief Engineer, you will help define and enforce technical planning, review and approval processes. You will also help coordinate efforts with the product and business functions in the company.
- Provide direct management and mentorship of individually contributing engineers: You will be responsible for helping individual engineers set and achieve their professional goals. This will include working with them on career development roadmaps and providing ongoing feedback and guidance on those roadmaps.
- Coordinate engineering efforts: You will help ensure the engineering team is effectively collaborating and prioritizing the most important engineering tasks. You will also work closely with the other functions of the business (e.g., Product) to ensure engineering is working effectively to support broader company goals. Hiring and recruiting: You will be responsible for helping to hire and onboard new engineers.
- Help lead sprint planning and manage sprint progress: You will help engineers with ticket creation and help ensure engineers meet their goals for each sprint.
What you must bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 4+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer
- 4+ years managing a team of Software Engineers
- 4+ years of experience running agile software development processes
- Strong familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Jira)
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Previous experience working at an early-stage startup is a plus
What we 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
- 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 Bearing, 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. Bearing 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 - Senior Full Stack Engineer Global
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.
Bearing - Sr DevOps Engineer Global
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 DevOps Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for leading scaling efforts for our technology platform. 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.
What You Must Bring:
• Must have 2-5 years of experience working in platform engineering, software product deployment, and API integration
• Must have hands-on experience in developing modern-software-deployment-flow. The candidate should have expert level knowledge of tools such as Jenkins, Docker, GitHub and Kubernetes
• Must have hands-on experience managing cloud-based work environment and storage system such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
•Must have hands-on experience in building commercial-grade APIs. The candidate should have expert level knowledge in either OpenAPI or GRPC, and understand how to scale API from proof of concept (POC) to handle substantial traffic
• Must have hands-on experience in building development, testing, and deployment flow. The ideal candidate should be able to independently create a continuous integration system that automates unit-testing, integration-testing, and pre-deployment testing
• Must have a good understanding of service-based software architecture. Having hands-on experience in building microservices is a big plus
• Must be able to write clean and efficient code. Familiarity with object-oriented programming is a big plus
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.
Chief Executive Officer Palo Alto, CA
About AI Fund:
AI Fund is a VC firm that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture firm is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, and powered by the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
Why Partner With AI Fund:
We’ve been there. We’ve founded and scaled successful companies ourselves, and we know that creating meaningful startups is really hard. Many entrepreneurs toil with ideas for years. Many spend time building something without the foresight of limiting factors that could have been easily dismissed up front. Accomplished execs often teeter between a desire to start a company and creating something great versus taking a job that is less fulfilling. If only someone could help with taking the risk out of turning an idea into reality and accelerate the company building process, more people would take that first step in becoming an entrepreneur.Coming up with great ideas, sussing them out, assembling great teams, and helping raise capital is what we do. We shorten a process that can take years down to months. We make sure you are going after the right market, are fully validated, and are surrounded by great teammates. Lastly, we make sure you see the world through the lens of a data scientist and machine learning expert, which is the perspective any meaningful company in the future must have. But we also know that the process is not about us. It’s about great Founders and empowering them to do great things.
About PowerBlox:
Powerblox is a stealth enterprise startup backed by AI Fund that uses artificial intelligence to optimize your webinar experience.
What We Seek:
This is an opportunity to get involved with a startup at its earliest stages that has already been validated and has a prototype in place. We are looking for a product focused CEO who desires to get their feet wet running a startup. We are looking for a passionate entrepreneur who can hire great people, get others excited about their vision, raise capital, and make it all happen.
What You Will be Doing:
- The CEO will be in charge of launching the product and ensuring that the portfolio company is hitting its milestones towards its next funding.
- Working in concert with General Partner to deliver on critical milestones
- Recruiting key members of the operational team
- Mapping out direction of the road map and determining product requirements
- Securing and negotiating strategic partnerships
- Ensuring customer satisfaction with early, key customers so that they are referenceable.
- Scaling the business, especially with regards to sales and marketing
- Responsible overall success of the product and business
What You Must Bring:
- Strong experience in developing SaaS products and/or building communities.
- Experience in the marketing tools or sales enablement markets.
- Previous leadership and management experience.
- The ability to think strategically and the foresight to think about problems ahead of time.
- Experience with doing customer outreach, understanding market needs, and driving towards product market fit.
- Experience fundraising.
- Nice to Have previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
Is Nice if you Have:
- MBA from top university preferred.
- Technical background, preferably with experience working in artificial intelligence.
Characteristics that We Value:
- 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 is 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.
Data Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Job Description:
We are looking for experienced data engineers for one of our portfolio companies. You will use various methods to transform raw data into useful data systems. For example, you’ll create algorithms and conduct statistical analysis. Overall, you’ll strive for efficiency by aligning data systems with business goals.
To succeed in this data engineering position, you should have strong analytical skills and the ability to combine data from different sources. Data engineer skills also include familiarity with several programming languages and knowledge of learning machine methods.
If you are detail-oriented, with excellent organizational skills and experience in this field, we’d like to hear from you.
What You Will be Doing:
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture across multiple data sources, including licensed and scraped data
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional needs of AI/ML engineers and front-end engineers
- Design and develop optimal data processing techniques: automating manual processes, data delivery, data validation and data augmentation
- Develop any necessary ETL processes to optimize analysis and performance
- Manage analytics tools that provide actionable insights into usage, customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
- Architect and implement new features from scratch, partnering with our AI/ML engineers to identify data sources, gaps and dependencies
- Identify bugs and performance issues across the stack, including performance monitoring and testing tools to ensure data integrity and quality user experience
- Build a highly scalable infrastructure using SQL and AWS big data technologies
- Keep our data secure and compliant with international data handling rules
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
- Professional experience shipping high-quality, production-ready code
- Strong computer science foundations, including data structures & algorithms, OS, computer networks, databases, algorithms, object-oriented programming
- Experience in Python
- Experience with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript and Networking
- Experience in setting up data pipelines using relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Cassandra and MongoDB
- Experience with AWS cloud services, including S3, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
- Proven success manipulating, processing and extracting value from large heterogeneous datasets
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
- Experience with extracting and ingesting data from websites using web crawling tools
- Experience with big data tools, including Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
- Experience developing scalable RESTful APIs
- 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
- Excellent English language skills
- Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
- Strong project management and organizational skills
Nice to Haves:
- BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
- Experience with extracting and ingesting data from emails (eg. gmail)
- Understanding of AI/ML models
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with consumer applications and data handling
- Familiarity with data privacy regulations and best practices
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.
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 gets 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 product and extremely results-driven in nature.
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.
Factored - Machine Learning Engineer Medellín, Antioquia
Who We Are:
Factored (an AI Fund Portfolio company) was conceived in Palo Alto, California by Andrew Ng and a team of highly experienced AI researchers, educators, and engineers to help address the significant shortage of qualified AI & Machine-Learning engineers globally. We know that exceptional technical aptitude, intelligence, communication skills, and passion are equally distributed around the world, and we are very committed to testing, vetting, and nurturing the most talented engineers for our program and on behalf of our clients.
We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our team. You will drive the development of AI products for external clients and internal efforts and also will participate firsthand in the development of a top-notch AI.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Lead the ideation, prototyping, and development AI softwares.
- Develop and deploy high-quality proof of concept projects with a variety of first customer partners.
- Rapid development of high performance ML models for deployment to production.
- Drive continual performance improvements and iterate on the product offering.
- Develop innovative NLP approaches for novel applications where good solutions do not currently exist and work creatively to come up with the optimal systems to solve customer’s most burning needs.
- Be part of a dynamic, fast growing team as a founding employee.
- Participate in the development and direction of the company’s evolution and product roadmap.
What You Must Bring:
- Strong background in machine learning and NLP.
- Able to launch and lead new ML application projects in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Strong coding ability--you must be able to write clean, modular, efficient code.
- Experience deploying software at scale is a plus.
- An advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field is a plus.
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 gets 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 Factored, 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.
Founder-in-Residence California
Who We Are:
AI is the new electricity. Just as it transformed entire industries 100 years ago, AI is poised to do the same today. AI Fund is a venture studio that was formed to be at the forefront of this revolutionary wave. We harness artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
Why Partner With AI Fund:
We’ve been there. We’ve founded and scaled successful companies ourselves, and we know that creating meaningful startups is really hard. Many entrepreneurs toil with ideas for years. Many spend time building something without the foresight of limiting factors that could have been easily dismissed upfront. Accomplished execs often teeter between a desire to start a company and creating something great versus taking a job that is less fulfilling. If only someone could help with taking the risk out of turning an idea into reality and accelerate the company building process, more people would be inspired to start a company. Coming up with great ideas, sussing them out, assembling great teams, and helping raise capital is what we do. We shorten a process that can take years down to months. We make sure you are going after the right market, are fully validated, and are surrounded by great teammates. Lastly, we make sure you see the world through the lens of a data scientist and machine learning expert, which is the perspective any meaningful company in the future must have. But we also know that the process is not about us. It’s about great Founders and empowering them to do great things.
What We Seek:
We are looking for passionate entrepreneurs with first-hand knowledge of the problem they have encountered or entrepreneurs that might match to a problem or idea we already have. It’s not a mandate, but ideally, we want people with experience solving business problems and have a keen eye for anticipating business risks. We are looking for a sound business leader who has built a company from 0 to 1 or a product manager running a product or built a product line from scratch before. We desire entrepreneurs who can hire great people, get others excited about their vision, raise capital, and make it all happen.
About the Idea:
There are many scenarios in which marketers may solicit 100s or 1000s of pieces of freetext responses from users, such as:
- Market research to shape the definition of new products.
- Reducing customer churn by reaching out proactively to specific customers to solicit feedback.
- Soliciting user feedback on current products.
Long-form multiple choice surveys have a low response rate. We have developed a new capability for marketers that enables them to synthesize user insights out of a collection of thousands or tens of thousands pieces of unstructured text written by users/customers/potential customers. In that synthesizing process, be able to predict customer desires, pain points and potential churn.
What You Will be Doing:
- Determine the launch product. The technology we have developed addresses multiple potential use cases. You will be responsible for evaluating these ideas or developing additional ideas yourself, and selecting a specific product direction to go to market.
- Build initial prototype and carry out validation. Working potentially with internal engineers and AI talents as well as design contractors, you will be responsible for developing an initial design of the product and collecting user feedback to validate the core business thesis.
- Build business case. Including initial financial models, TAM/SAM/SOM analysis, estimate of margin, competitive analysis, etc. As part of this, we expect you to validate (or falsify) user demand and willingness to pay, and also develop the initial GTM.
- Develop a request for funding as a final milestone during the 3 months FIR consulting engagement. At the conclusion of this 3 month plan, you and AI Fund will jointly make a decision on whether to fund and proceed with this as a business.
What You Must Bring:
- Marketing experience.
- Business or Product leadership background.
- Startup experience, building companies from 0 to 1.
- Previous experience leading fundraising from institutional investors is a huge plus
- Previous founder, co-founder or startup CEO experience.
- Enterprise B2B sales experience.
The following are nice to haves:
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 gets 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.
FourthBrain - Machine Learning Instructor United States
Who We Are
About FourthBrain:FourthBrain aims to launch candidates into careers in Artificial Intelligence by bridging the gap between employers and qualified candidates via real world applications and hands-on training. Students will now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. FourthBrain will run a blended-learning program that trains candidates to become machine-learning experts and positions them for careers in AI.
About AI Fund:FourthBrain is backed by AI Fund, a venture studio that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
What You Will be Doing:
The Instructor will work closely with the Curriculum Development Director at FourthBrain to leverage their technical skills in ML to manage a cohort of students in a part-time ML training program. The instructor is responsible for facilitating live class sessions, preparing class materials, and providing feedback and guidance to each student. Your experience as an educator, technical skills in the AI space, and ability to communicate will all be critical for this role.
Please note that at this time, this role is limited to individuals in the US.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Deliver live class session(s) for a total of 5-6 hours each week. These sessions will be on the weekends or evenings (schedule is variable by cohort, but consistent throughout the entire program)
- Manage the digital classroom, including releasing curriculum materials and assignments on a weekly basis
- Evaluate and grade assignments
- Provide regular guidance and feedback on capstone projects
- Hold office hours (60-90 mins) a week, which could be on evenings and weekends, to assist students with their weekly work
- Collect feedback from students and industry experts to continuously iterate on learning modules
- Partner with Curriculum Director on updates and modifications to curriculum and projects
- Partner with Career Education to identify key areas of development
What You Must Bring:
- Technical background in machine learning, math and programming
- Expert level proficiency in using Machine learning packages for Python; experience with Tensorflow
- Experience with instructional design best practices as well as experience designing and teaching technical courses
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelors in STEM / AI / CS, or equivalent industry experience in areas like software development, machine learning or data science.
It's Nice if You Have:
- Masters in AI, CS or related field
- Previous experience as an instructor or lecturer in the areas of AI, machine learning, data science, robotics or similar
- Professional experience in AI or ML roles
- Interest in student engagement, motivation, and teaching
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 gets 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 and FourthBrain, 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 and FourthBrain believe 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.
FourthBrain - Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning Palo Alto, CA
Who We Are
About FourthBrain:
FourthBrain aims to launch candidates into careers in Artificial Intelligence by bridging the gap between employers and qualified candidates via real world applications and hands-on training. Students will now have the opportunity to learn next-generation artificial intelligence applications, theories, methods, and systems. FourthBrain will run a blended-learning program that trains candidates to become machine-learning experts and positions them for careers in AI.
About AI Fund:
FourthBrain is backed by AI Fund, a venture studio that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
The Teaching Assistant will work closely with the Curriculum Development Director at FourthBrain to leverage their technical skills in ML to create quizzes and assignments for existing content, as well as prepare supplemental materials to improve the student learning experience. The TA will be supporting students during live online classes and be available for virtual office hours. Your experience as an educator, technical skills in the AI space and ability to communicate and work well with a team will all be critical for this role.
What You Will be Doing:
- Create quizzes, weekly assignments for core machine learning concepts.
- Evaluate and grade quizzes and projects
- Hold office hours (60-90 mins) a week, which could be on evenings and weekends to assist students with their weekly work.
- Troubleshoot with students on their projects and help debug.
- Collect feedback from students and industry experts to continuously iterate on learning modules
- Manage data to drive decisions. Track & implement necessary adjustments to the program
- Act as the escalation point for students when they have concerns & suggestions and serve as a mediator
- Advocate for students with empathy. Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Deliver instruction to test curriculum for early cohorts
What You Must Bring:
- Technical background in math and programming to develop machine learning assessments and curriculum.
- Experience with instructional design best practices as well as experience designing and teaching technical courses.
- Capability to digest github codebases and create assignment projects from them.
- Bachelors in STEM / AI / CS or equivalent industry experience in areas like software development, machine learning or data science.
It's Nice If You Have:
- Professional experience in project deployment life cycles OR academic experience with a capstone project with focus on deployment.
- Previous experience as an instructor or TA in the areas of AI, machine learning, data science, robotics or similar.
- Previous experience in building grading rubrics or in grading programming assignments.
- Interest in student motivation in online or flipped classroom formats.
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 gets 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 & FourthBrain, 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.
Full Stack Engineer Global
Job Description:
We are looking for Full Stack Engineers to produce scalable software solutions for our portfolio companies. You’ll be part of a cross-functional and will be responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.
As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.
What You Will be Doing:
- Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Write effective APIs
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Create security and data protection settings
- Build features and applications
What You Must Bring:
Must Haves:
- Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
- Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
- Familiarity with common stacks
- Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
- Knowledge of multiple object-oriented languages (e.g. Java, Python) and multiple frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
- Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to have in-depth technical discussions with both the engineering team and business people
- Excellent English language skills
- Self-starter and comfort working in an early-stage environment
- Strong project management and organizational skills
Nice to Haves:
- BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar field; Master’s or PhD degree is a plus
- Understanding of AI/ML models
- Understanding of big data tools, including Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with consumer applications and data handling
- Familiarity with data privacy regulations and best practices
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.
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 gets 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 product and extremely results-driven in nature.
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.
Operations Manager Medellín, Antioquia
AI Fund is an early stage venture firm founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, investors and operators to support our portfolio of companies utilizing AI to move humanity forward. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms including Sequoia, Greylock and NEA.
We are looking for an energetic professional who doesn't mind wearing multiple hats, to lead our office operations in Medellin, Colombia. The ideal candidate for the role must be experienced in handling a wide range of finance, accounting, HR and overall administrative leadership related tasks. He or she must be able to work independently with little or no supervision, well organized, flexible and enjoy the managerial challenges of leading a new operation of diverse people.
What You Will be Doing:
- Finance. You’ll serve as the accounting manager to oversee the outsourced accounting service vendors for payroll, accounting & treasury functions of the Colombia office. You will need to effectively coordinate the delivery of all accounting and financial reports, make timely payments to vendors, review local and federal taxes, and report all financial matters to our US headquarters on a periodic basis. You will also manage the corporate bank account, and monitor costs savings.
- Human Resources. You’ll be responsible for managing all required HR processes for the team, including: Employee Onboarding and documentation, payroll review, social security, amongst others. You will also work alongside the health & security management system to keep office adherence aligned with labor risk policies.
- Legal. You will be responsible to manage the relationship and communication with the legal counsel. We expect you to help us Identify legal requirements and government regulations affecting HR and Finance functions to ensure that all company's policies, procedures, and reporting are in compliance with local law.
- Operations. Responsible for all office administrative management, including event logistics, vendors and providers relationship management, office supplies, amongst others. We also expect you to be the main go to person for all our on site team.
What You Must Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related fields
- Previous office administration and/or operations experience
- Knowledge of office management responsibilities, systems and procedures
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize work
- Attention to detail and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Knowledge of accounting, finance, and tax
- Knowledge of administrative management practices and procedures
- Knowledge of human resources management practices and procedures
- Knowledge of business and management principles
- Computer skills and knowledge of office software packages
Nice If You Have:
- Previous StartUp experience
- Previous experience working with facilities, leases and set up of an office from scratch
We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
- Prioritize: Identify your most important tasks for moving the fund forward, and focus on them. Make sure you can stack rank according to priority, communicate out your priorities, and say “no” or “not now” appropriately to low priority items.
- Execute fast: Move quickly. Set ambitious but realistic deadlines, communicate them out, and stick to it. Don’t take two days to do what can be done in one day, nor two months to do what can be done in one. Startups live or die by their ability to execute, pivot, and grow faster than anyone else.
- Work hard: Startups are a lot of work to build. A core advantage startups have over established companies is that they are willing to work much harder, and so can do much more. Lean in and do the work needed to give them the best chance of success.
- Own the outcome: Raise all fund-related issues directly. Propose solutions to any issue, including higher-level problems that are “outside your job scope.” We’re a small team and you are empowered to try to make anything better.
- Be helpful: Leverage your team’s expertise and be generous in helping others in our ecosystem of companies. Let others help you too, and state your needs clearly to empower others to assist you.
- Keep improving: Be receptive and welcome feedback. Keep looking for opportunities to learn. Keep investing in learning. Set high standards and reach for them.
What We Have to Offer:
- Free snacks, drinks, lunches and dinners daily
- Commuter benefits
- Collegial atmosphere
- Direct and transparent communication style
- Empowered to be the best you can be
- 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. Lacuna 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.
Sr. Associate/Principal Remote
Title: Senior Associate
Location: US time zone -- Anywhere
Reporting to: Perry Wu, General Partner
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 venture studio founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. Our portfolio companies utilize AI technology and applications to improve processes and efficiency. The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and operators. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms.
Our purpose is to build AI companies that move humanity forward.
What We Seek:
We are looking for an energetic associate to join our investment team and support our process of building companies. As company builders, founders and investors ourselves we are looking to add a top new talent to our investment team. We welcome candidates who possess a growth mindset, strong analytical skills and ability to handle ambiguity. You will be responsible for driving projects forward until either they are falsified (and ended) or smoothly transitioned to a newly found company.
What You Will be Doing:
- Carry out early product validation. You will be responsible for working with Andrew and our leadership team to quickly validate or falsify specific ideas. This may involve product work, such as carrying out user interviews or carrying out quick user studies, deep dives into technology, and/or fleshing out an initial product vision.
- Build a business case. For ideas that seem promising, you will be responsible for building a case for the business, including such elements as a TAM/SAM/SOM analysis, initial business model and initial GTM strategy, and compiling a pitch deck-like document that synthesizes the main thesis of the business.
- Assist with bringing on FIR (Founder in Residence). You will play an instrumental role in explaining the business idea to potential founders, helping them understand the potential of the business, and working to bring on a strong FIR to carry the business forward through a 3-4 month FIR consulting period.
- Support FIR and AI Fund leadership through initial phases of the project. AI Fund and the FIR will meet regularly during the FIR period. You will be responsible for coming to these meetings and playing a coordination and program management role to make sure necessary resources are made to the FIR, as well as drive follow up needed to move the business forward.
- Support AI Fund investment decision at conclusion of FIR period. You will be helping to build a case for whether AI Fund should invest.
What You Must Bring:
- MBA degree from top tier program with superior academic performance, or equivalent business experience.
- Able to work well with senior executives in way that makes efficient use of their time
- Technical undergraduate degree (engineering, math, science, and/or computer science)
- Previous experience working in investment banking analyzing various companies/business problems or top management consulting firms working with companies in a strategic or operational level
- Market research experience including competitive market mapping, trend analysis and TAM/SAM/SOM analysis.
- Proactive self-starter with strong work ethic
- Excellent project management and organizational skills
- Natural analytical ability
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong desire to work in deal generation/sourcing investment environment and help early stage companies grow
- Strong writing skills
Nice to Haves
- Product experience at a tech company or a hi-tech start-up
- AI and/or ML knowledge at a conceptual level at a minimum
Please note that there is no relocation budget or visa sponsorship budget available for this role.
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.
Stepwise - Founder-In-Residence Palo Alto, CA
Who We Are:
AI Fund is a VC firm that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture firm is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, and powered by the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
Why Partner With AI Fund:
We’ve been there. We’ve founded and scaled successful companies ourselves, and we know that creating meaningful startups is really hard. Many entrepreneurs toil with ideas for years. Many spend time building something without the foresight of limiting factors that could have been easily dismissed up front. Accomplished execs often teeter between a desire to start a company and creating something great versus taking a job that is less fulfilling. If only someone could help with taking the risk out of turning an idea into reality and accelerate the company building process, more people would take that first step in becoming an entrepreneur.
Coming up with great ideas, sussing them out, assembling great teams, and helping raise capital is what we do. We shorten a process that can take years down to months. We make sure you are going after the right market, are fully validated, and are surrounded by great teammates. Lastly, we make sure you see the world through the lens of a data scientist and machine learning expert, which is the perspective any meaningful company in the future must have.
But we also know that the process is not about us. It’s about great Founders and empowering them to do great things.
About StepWise:
StepWise is a stealth enterprise startup that utilizes modern-day media to improve the way industries and product companies communicate to their relevant constituents.
What We Seek:
This is an opportunity to get involved with a startup at its earliest stages that has already been validated and built. We are looking for either a product leader who desires to get their feet wet running a startup or someone we bring on as the CEO from the get go.
We are looking for passionate entrepreneurs who can hire great people, get others excited about their vision, raise capital, and make it all happen.
What You Will be Doing:
- The FIR will be in charge of launching the product and ensuring that the portfolio company is hitting its milestones towards its next funding.
- Working in concert with General Partner to deliver on critical milestones
- Recruiting key members of the operational team
- Mapping out direction of the road map and determining product requirements
- Securing and negotiating strategic partnerships
- Ensuring customer satisfaction with early, key customers so that they are referenceable.
- Scaling the business, especially with regards to sales and marketing
- Responsible overall success of the product and business
- Although it is not required, we are interested in candidates that can scale to be the CEO. Under this role, you will additionally be responsible for building the company, recruiting great people, and raising capital.
What You Must Bring:
- Strong experience in developing SaaS products and/or building communities.
- Experience in the marketing tools or sales enablement markets.
- Previous leadership and management experience.
- The ability to think strategically and the foresight to think about problems ahead of time.
- Experience with doing customer outreach, understanding market needs, and driving towards product market fit.
- Experience fundraising.
- Nice to Have previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.
- MBA from top university preferred.
- Technical background, preferably with experience working in artificial intelligence.
Characteristics that We Value:
- 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.
UI/UX Design 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 venture studio that harnesses the use of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for the big challenges of today. With the collective aspirations of our co-founders, we build companies from inception to market launch. We innovate, ideate, and validate to address some of the most pressing issues in human capital, healthcare, wellness, and other traditional industries.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $176 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, along with the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and operators.
We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented UI/UX Designer to turn our software into easy-to-use products. You will be responsible for gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements and building navigation components. To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools. If you also have a portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with web/mobile applications, we’d like to meet you.
What You Will be Doing:
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
- Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
- Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
- Build page navigation buttons and search fields
- Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
- Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
- Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
- Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
- Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images
What You Must Bring:
- Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role
- Portfolio of design projects
- Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Wireframe.cc and InVision)
- Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Figma
- Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
- Good time-management skills
- Able to work independently
Nice if you have:
- Experience working with startups from an early stage.
- BSc in Design, Computer Science or relevant fields.
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.