Issue No. 10 —The Talent Foundry

Bridging the gap between talent at top tier schools and startup gems in the hidden job market. 

We’re back, delivering fresh open startup roles to your inbox. The timing couldn’t be better. Yes, the market’s been tough. Funding cycles have tightened, hiring has slowed, and a lot of talented people hit pause. But here’s the part most headlines miss: the best startups never stop hiring for high-impact roles. They’re still searching for the builders, operators, and problem-solvers who can change their trajectory next year.

It can be really hard to figure out which startups are going to be the best for your career. Here’s a tip from Lenny’s Newsletter: Look for startups with “are they crazy?” ambition. If the vision feels too big and the founders learn fast, you may have found a rocket ship.

We’re doubling down on helping you find those opportunities. We just launched our new job board with thousands of startup roles across business, product and design.

We selected some of the best roles below, as always, but check it out and let us know what you think!

List your startup’s open roles by submitting this form.

🚀 Biz Ops & Strategy

Thought of the week comes from our friend Aakash at Product Growth: Chase outcomes, not dashboards. In AI workflows, activity is noise, but impact is the signal. Optimize for the metric that proves real value.

Manager, Strategic Initiatives, Remote at aledade (EHR value-based care insights, Growth Stage, Arlington) – Working in the Office of the CEO, support high-priority initiatives to aid in Aledade's performance and growth

Strategic Initiatives Manager at Bosta (Redefining last-mile logistics, Growth Stage, Cairo) – Lead high-impact projects and drive Bosta's long-term growth agenda

Business Operations Manager at hive (Cloud-based AI solutions, Growth Stage, SF) – Work with the executive team to support execution of key processes and systems, development of metrics, and execution of client projects.

Client Operations Manager at January (Rebuilding consumer finance, Series B, NYC) – Lead a team of client operations associates who handle the day-to-day technical needs of our enterprise clients

Founding Director, Financial Strategy & Success at Loop (AI restaurant back office, Early Stage, NYC) – Experience working with AP, AR, Close, Payroll, COGS tools

Director, User Operations at NerdWallet (Consumer Fintech, Late stage, Remote) – Drive AI-powered customer service strategy and use data and AI to transform operations

Strategic Operations Lead at Owner (AI growth for local restaurants, Series C, Remote) – Partner closely with the COO and Chief of Staff to ensure alignment and delivery of company-level objectives.

🧭 Chief of Staff

Thought of the week comes from Tom’s Marketing Ideas: Treat competitor exits like timed sprints. Prepare scripts, outreach plans, and rapid-activation workflows to capture the opportunity immediately. 

Chief of Staff to the CMO at EliseAI (AI agents for Housing & Healthcare, Series E, NYC) – Serve as the strategic and operational right hand to the CMO to help run marketing

Chief of Staff at Greenboard (Rippling for financial compliance and ops, Early Stage, NYC) – Partner with the CEO on the highest priority initiatives, working across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Operations, and Product to multiply impact

Chief of Staff at hive (Cloud-based AI solutions, Growth Stage, SF) – Streamline our productivity and oversee critical internal operations

Chief of Staff to CEO at includedhealth (HealthTech, Growth Stage, SF) – Run the Office of the CEO as a force multiplier - translating strategy into sequenced execution across the organization.

Chief of Staff at ivo (B2B SaaS / LegalTech, Series B, SF) – Work with our CEO and take on high-leverage tasks across product, sales, and hiring

📈 GTM / Growth / Marketing

Thought of the week comes from Lenny and Jeanne Grosser: Sell the pain, not the promise. 80% of buyers purchase to avoid risk; show what breaks without you, not just what improves.

Head of Growth at albedo (Building satellite infrastructure, Growth Stage, Denver) – Shape Albedo’s go-to-market strategy for commercial and industry customers

Head of Revenue Enablement at Eve (AI-driven solutions in legal tech, Growth Stage, Remote) – Shape Revenue Enablement across all of GTM, work cross functionally with GTM orgs to design and implement KPIs, onboarding and training programs

Founding Director, Restaurant Growth at Loop (AI restaurant back office, Early Stage, NYC) – Experience working with Growth & Marketing tools

Founding Marketing Manager at Toku (Crypto Tax & Compliance, Early Stage, United States) – Establish Toku as a thought leader in the EOR and token grant administration space

Head of AI Platform & Ecosystem Partnerships at Crusoe (Accelerating energy and intelligence, SF) – Build and scale relationships across AI platforms, marketplaces, startups, and VC communities

Head of Growth at Anrok (Global Tax & Billing automation, SF) – Lead and scale our growth engine, owning demand generation activation, retention, and expansion to drive revenue growth

Director of Strategic Accounts at Qumis (Insurance with generative AI, Early Stage, NYC) – Define customer expansion and growth playbook, own revenue retention and expansion and build scalable processes

🧪 Product

Thought of the week comes from our friend Aakash at Product Growth: Ship AI only where you can beat a raw LLM. Ask: “Do we have unique data or context that outperforms a baseline model?” If not, don’t build it. If ChatGPT outperforms your feature, kill it and focus on solving a real pain.

Product Manager at Ambrook (Modern Accounting Tools for Agriculture,  Series A, NYC) – As our first product hire, own the direction and execution of customer acquisition, engagement, and retention

Founding Product Marketing Manager at Gushwork (AI agents for SMBs, Early Stage, Bengaluru) – Own the story, positioning, and go-to-market motion for new products and launches

Founding Product Manager at Ideogram (Proprietary generative media models and AI, Early Stage, Toronto) – As the first PM, you'll work closely with the CEO  to develop the product vision, and translate it into concrete strategies and roadmaps

Founding Product Manager at Imbue (Coding agent platform for developers, Early Stage, SF) – Design your own coding agent workflows and re-imagine how developers create software.

Growth Product Manager at Lindy (Building AI employees, Early Stage, SF) – Own and optimize our product-led growth funnel from acquisition all the way through activation and retention, experimentation and product innovation

Founding Product Manager, Healthcare at Protege (AI data, Seed, Remote) – Own product development and the roadmap in the healthcare business

Product Manager, Agent Development at Sierra (Enterprise-grade AI Agents, Singapore) – Build and ship AI agents that handle thousands of customer conversations a day

Senior Product Manager, Billing & Payments at Tabs (AI-native revenue platform, Early Stage, NYC) – Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for invoicing, dunning, payments, collections, and cash forecasting products.

Pre-Seed

$5m for Metri Bio from Boston, US (Biotech, Healthcare)

Seed

$6.6m for Lyric Bio from San Francisco, US (Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing) 

£8.5m for Bourn (bourn.ai) from London, UK (Embedded Systems, Hardware)

$40m for Juniper Biosciences from Bridgewater, US (Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing) 

Uptiv Health from Nashville, US (Health, Healthcare) 

Series A

$64m for Aether Biomachines from Menlo Park, US (Biomedical Engineering, Biotech)

$70m for Excelsior Sciences from New York City, US (Biotech, Biotechnology AI) 

$15m for Circular Genomics from San Diego, US (Biotech, Clinical Diagnostics)

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Team @ The Talent Foundry