What You'll Do
- Own the technical foundation of Meeno end-to-end: Web + mobile + backend + data + experimentation
- Renate Nyborg, founder/CEO (former Tinder CEO, ex Apple/Headspace)
- Josh Knox, product lead (founder of Outright, brand and content expert)
- Andrew Ng, Chairman (AI Fund, founder of Coursera/Google Brain)
- Voice capture/playbackLow-latency interactions
- Scene framework (content + branching + scoring hooks)
- Feedback loops and user progression
- Personalization
- Quality, reliability, security/privacy, and shipping culture.
- Focus on quality over quantity, leveraging AI and talent to scale while staying lean.
What We're Looking For
- Strong builder who has shipped consumer products.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast without breaking the soul of the product.
- Product taste: you care about “feel,” not just functionality.
- Excited by voice, interaction design, and behavior change.
- Can operate like a founder: make tradeoffs, set direction, ship.
Green flags (not requirements)
- Hyped about social connection, empathy for Gen Z loneliness.
- Early adopter of AI-driven development.
- Hungry for rapid career progression and societal impact.
- Experience with audio/voice pipelines, realtime systems, mobile performance.
- History of building unconventional projects (creative tech, experiments, indie builds).
- Interest in human behavior, social dynamics, and product psychology.
You won't pass the vibe check if...
- You are not passionate about our mission.
- You only want to manage, not build.
- You need perfect specs to move.
- You optimize for process over product feel.
- You are not fun.
What success looks like (first 6 months)
- Meeno has a stable foundation, and we can run rapid experiments.
- Our product feels fast, human, and culturally sharp.
- We have a pipeline of world-class engineering talent.
- We are well-positioned to raise Series A with clear signal on north star metrics.
- We are having fun.
Top Skills
What We Do
Who is AI Fund?
We are a team of AI pioneers, proven entrepreneurs, seasoned operators, and venture capitalists that collaborates with leading entrepreneurs to solve big challenges using artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is backed with $176 million in capital by some of the leading VC firms and investors, including NEA, Sequoia, and Greylock.
How Are We Different?
We work with entrepreneurs during their startup’s most critical and risky phase, from 0 to 1. At the earliest stages, your company strategy is still being formed, and you’re still on the path to demonstrating your idea’s full potential – this is a reality we understand. This is the period when decisions on product strategy, market fit, and team are most critical, moving fast and fixing parts of your business when you have limited resources is a challenge.
We believe the best way to help entrepreneurs is by providing our time, expertise, and resources to help flesh out these key strategic decisions. Making the right decisions at the right time can often make the difference. We are here to improve these dynamics, at a time when the help matters the most.
Why Work With AI Fund?
Getting a startup from idea to Series A funding is not easy. We’ve been there and understand the challenges you must overcome. Whether you desire limited help and just want access to our unique ecosystems of AI experts and entrepreneurs or you would like our full support, we are interested in the opportunity to help in your success.
We are flexible in how we work with companies, but ultimately, we are here to maximize your chance of success and accelerate getting your company to market. We provide the capital, expertise, and resources to accelerate the work required to minimize risks in your startup, help you rise above the noise, and make your company more attractive to new investors.
