Welcome to Edition 132! Before getting into the jobs, I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all who have supported or joined for my Thursday Nights in AI fireside chat series. Lots more upcoming — register here for the in-person events or livestreams.
The series was mentioned in Forbes yesterday, in the piece about my partners’ $200M Series B for AI research company Imbue (they’re also hiring for a Chief of Staff, JD linked below). I posted about the piece on LinkedIn and Twitter, and I’d deeply appreciate any likes, retweets, reshares, and replies to feed the algorithms (apparently replies are particularly useful for boosting the algos).
To learn more about Imbue, join us Thurs, Sept 28 as I interview Kanjun about the company’s work training their own foundation models, prototyping agents, and developing a deeper theoretical understanding of why deep learning works:
It’s a pleasant August evening in San Francisco as Houston takes the mic to talk about all things AI with Qiu and Ali Rohde, who manages a small venture fund Imbue’s founders established to back other early-stage AI startups. Several dozen attendees, mostly entrepreneurs and engineers, flock to productivity software company Notion’s minimalistic Mission District office to hear Houston speak.
The gathering, one of a weekly series, is reminiscent of The Archive’s old dinners, but at a larger scale. “Every decade or so there’s a new era of computing that kicks off, and everybody’s fumbling around together,” Houston said later. “To be in that community, it’s exciting.”
Houston didn’t expect his former employee to pivot from recruiting automation to AI research lab; now, given the recent excitement around generative AI, he said the move has gone from looking like “science project” to “right in the fairway.” He’s joined by a who’s who of backers in that fund, Outset Capital, including Quora CEO and OpenAI board member Adam D’Angelo, Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and Google DeepMind head of policy (and former Dropbox PR chief) Dorothy Chou.
And now, onto the jobs. As always, please submit any relevant jobs you want shared HERE - Ali
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Second Cohort of NEXT, the community by my friend Anthony Nardini
Excited to share that my friend Anthony Nardini just announced the second cohort of his community for startup job-seekers!
NEXT brings together entrepreneurial mid-career and exec-level people who are intentionally thinking about what they want in their next chapters.
The community provides speaker events with top VCs, workshops with career coaches, access to startup job opportunities, masterminds, and a collaborative search experience supported by peers.
From someone who learned about NEXT through Ali Rohde Jobs and landed her new role at a Sequoia-backed startup through an intro from the community: “The learnings and network have been invaluable.”
Mention Ali Rohde Jobs in your application for an expedited review!
Chief of Staff roles:
Chief of Staff, Imbue (AI, Series B, backed by NVIDIA), SF (check out their $200M funding announcement in Forbes!)
Chief of Staff, UpKeep (Enterprise, Series B, backed by Bain Capital Ventures), Los Angeles, CA
Chief of Staff, Econic AI (AI, Early-stage), Dallas, TX
Chief of Staff, Fort Health (Mental Health, Early-stage), Remote
Chief of Staff, Surround Insurance (Insurtech, Seed), Boston, MA
Chief of Staff - Technology, Thrive Global (Wellness, Series C, backed by Kleiner Perkins), NYC
BizOps roles:
Strategy Operations and Program Management Lead - Personalization, Spotify (Media, Public), NYC / Hybrid
Operations Analyst, Tandem (Healthcare, Seed, backed by Thrive Capital), NYC
Sr. Dir, Deputy to the GM of Venmo, Venmo (Fintech, Acquired by PayPal), San Jose, CA / NYC
Research Analyst, Obama Foundation, Chicago, IL / Washington, DC / Remote
Operations Associate (entry-level), Databento (Fintech, Series A), Various/Remote
Strategic Partner Manager (NorCal), Doordash (Food Delivery, Public), SF / Seattle, WA / Portland, OR
Senior Editor, Architecture Lists, Forbes, Remote
Business Planning and Pricing Strategy Principal, Google Cloud, Google, Various / Remote
Founder's Office, Huddle01 (Web3, Seed), SF / Remote
Senior Manager, SMB Strategy & Operations, Afterpay + Cash App, Afterpay (Fintech, Acquired by Block), Remote
Strategy & Research Analyst (Contractor), Brilliant.org (Edtech, Series C, backed by Union Square Ventures), Remote
Revenue Operations Business Partner, Checkout.com (Fintech, Series D, backed by Insight Partners), London, United Kingdom
Strategic Finance, Go-to-Market, Notion (Collaboration, Series C, backed by Sequoia), SF
Analyst, Revenue Strategy & Operations, Senior Manager of Executive Team Projects, OpenTable (Restaurants, Acquired), SF
Strategy and Business Operations Associate and Director of Revenue Operations, Peek (Travel, Series C, backed by Khosla Ventures), Remote
Director, Strategy & Business Operations, Rakuten Viki (Video Streaming, Acquired by Rakuten), San Mateo, CA
Business Operations Manager, Senior Operations Manager, Rippling (HR Tech, Series E, backed by Sequoia), SF
VC roles:
Principal, NFX, SF
Associate, Salesforce Ventures, SF
Senior Business Development Manager, Venture Capital, Carta, SF / NYC
Fintech Partnerships Vice President, JP Morgan Chase, SF
Analyst, Differential Ventures, NYC
2023 DRF Investment Partner, Dorm Room Fund, Various / Remote
VC Analyst, Metaprop, NYC / Hybrid
NFX Fellowship - MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Any School, NFX, SF
Precursor Graduate Internship, Precursor Ventures, Remote
Associate (Global Innovation Fund), Sands Capital, SF / Hybrid
Equity Research Associate (Technology Sector) - 2024 Graduates, Sands Capital, Arlington, VA / Hybrid