What You Will Be Doing:
- Leadership & Strategy: Provide visionary leadership and strategy for the engineering team; Establish and drive strategic technology goals and objectives.
- Team Development: Develop and grow engineering talent, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Proven success in a remote environment.
- Collaboration: Work closely with all teams to ensure alignment between business and technological goals.
- You'll be expected to demonstrate a lead-by-example leadership style, an unparalleled commitment, and a proactive mindset to shape the foundation and drive the company's success from its earliest stages, including:
- Ready to dive deep, encompassing a hands-on, get-it-done mentality for whatever is needed, regardless of the job role.
- Actively contribute to the codebase, setting the standard for coding practices and ensuring high-quality software development.
- Be a full-time coach for your team to develop talent and create opportunities for staff.
- Mentor other departments, such as customer service and implementation, on the technology to best support customers.
- Being comfortable presenting to the board, addressing the entire company, and engaging in discussions with high-value potential customer prospects.
- Always strategizing and proactively sharing insights on improving the company, enhancing our product, and empowering our team to achieve greater success.
- Participation in fundraising activities.
What You Must Have:
- Entrepreneurial Experience: Previous experience as an engineering leader for a VC-backed technology company.
- 0 to 1 experience building a software product from MVP to scale.
- Full Stack Development: Across the software development lifecycle, ensuring best practices in both front-end and back-end development.
- Ideally proficient in both Python and TypeScript.
- AI/ML Proficiency: Conceptual understanding of AI/ML technologies to drive innovation within our product and ensure the engineering team stays updated with the latest advancements.
- Enterprise Integration and Scalability: Familiarity with integrating various data sources, tools, and platforms, ensuring scalability and growth optimization.
- Data Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and develop data management and governance practices, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility.
- Off-shore development: Hands on experience with building and leading mixed on/off shore development teams.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field a plus.
- Fundraising: Previous experience raising VC strongly preferred.
Why Join
- All essential support needed to take the existing full stack engineering team to the next level and ensure your success in the role and, ultimately, the company's success.
- Remote first company for you and the engineering team.
- Headcount available to meet team growth needs.
- Fortune 500 users as design partners for real-world product feedback and prioritization.
- Turbocharge your AI network via AI Fund AI ecosystem, events, experts and connections.
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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.
