Jobs at Unusual Ventures

Build and ship AI-powered internal systems across investing, talent, founder services, finance, and operations. Projects include talent intelligence, sourcing and research tools, diligence workflows, firm knowledge search, operations automation, and reusable portfolio-company AI tools. The role requires end-to-end ownership, from identifying high-leverage problems and selecting the technical stack to building usable products, working with messy business data, and supporting portfolio founders with AI strategy and implementation.

Build and operate Helios’s acquisition and document-processing infrastructure, including web crawlers, connectors, fault-tolerant pipelines, multilingual document and media processing, OCR, extraction, transcription, and enrichment. Establish data contracts, provenance, versioning, observability, security, and correction propagation across distributed systems. Scale batch and real-time CPU/GPU workloads while supporting international sources and restricted environments.

Build and architect production-grade AI systems, including LLM orchestration, retrieval layers, multi-agent workflows, tool-calling systems, and structured reasoning. Establish scalable, observable, cost-aware architecture patterns; guide data, infrastructure, API, evaluation, monitoring, and governance decisions; mentor senior engineers; and translate ambiguous business problems into reliable technical solutions. The role emphasizes hands-on building, end-to-end delivery, production reliability, and technical leadership.

Build GovSignals’ AI-powered growth engine from scratch, including enrichment pipelines, LLM personalization, agentic outbound, campaigns, messaging, content, dashboards, attribution, and funnel optimization. Run rapid growth experiments across email, paid/social, webinars, conferences, and ABM. Translate technical AI products into clear customer narratives and partner with product, sales, and deployment. The role requires direct experience with federal agencies, government contractors, or federal-supporting organizations.

Lead full sales cycle for Roboto's robotics analytics platform: prospect, demo to engineering teams, close deals, and grow accounts. Generate pipeline through outbound, events, partners, and community; perform technical discovery and translate product capabilities into customer value while serving as a long-term trusted advisor.

Lead company vision, strategy, and execution; drive growth, fundraising, investor and board relations; build and mentor executive team; align organization, monitor performance, and create long-term value.

Lead and operate the Founder Services and Platform teams at a VC firm: organize talent, GTM, marketing, events, and customer introductions; coach founders (pre-seed to Series B) on recruiting, go-to-market, narrative, and hiring; build repeatable playbooks, set quality standards, and ensure timely, high-impact support.