Issue No. 13 —The Talent Foundry

Bridging the gap between talent and startup gems in the hidden job market. 

Happy 2026! A new year marks new opportunities. Check out some exciting roles below.

In this edition:

• Who’s hiring: ~40 roles across Biz Ops & Strategy, Chief of Staff, Product and Marketing

• Who’s raised: 10+ new raise announcements

• What we’re reading: 4 articles to help you operate successfully in the startup world and find your next thing.

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Who’s Hiring

Product

Product Manager | New Bets at Ramp (AI-powered finance platform, Series D, Remote) – Lead 0-to-1 product initiatives exploring new business lines at fast-growing fintech

Strategist, Agent Development  at Sierra (Enterprise AI agents platform, Series C, SF) – Partner with customers to design and deploy AI agent solutions for enterprise support

Senior Director, Consumer Product at A Place for Mom (Senior care marketplace, Growth Stage, Remote) – Shape consumer product vision for AI-powered home care platform serving families

Senior/Principal Product Manager, Platform at Horizon3 AI (Autonomous cybersecurity pentesting, Series C, Remote) – Lead platform product strategy for NodeZero autonomous security assessment platform

Founding Product Manager at Pulley (AI permitting intelligence platform, Series A, SF) – Own product vision and roadmap as founding PM for AI platform speeding commercial construction

Product Manager at Pylon (B2B support platform, Series A, SF) – Drive product decisions across support, AI, and account management product lines

Product Manager | Procurement at Ramp (AI-powered finance platform, Series D, Remote) – Build procurement platform helping companies manage vendor spend and contracts

Product Manager | Risk at Ramp (AI-powered finance platform, Series D, Remote) – Own risk and credit products protecting 50K+ businesses on the Ramp platform

GTM/Growth/Marketing

Head of Marketing at Maven AGI (Enterprise AI customer service, Series B, Remote) – Lead marketing strategy for AI platform reimagining enterprise support

Head of Sales, Mid Market  at CUBE (RegTech compliance platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Build and scale mid-market sales team driving 50%+ annual growth

Founding Enterprise Account Executive at Axe (AI agents for logistics, Seed, Dublin) – Close enterprise deals with world's largest logistics providers as founding AE

Founding GTM Lead at Axe (AI agents for logistics, Seed, Dublin) – Build and lead GTM motion identifying new verticals for AI logistics agents

Senior Customer Success Manager at Roboflow (Computer vision ML platform, Series B, Remote) – Own customer success for enterprise accounts building ML-powered vision applications

Senior Account Executive (Remote) at Adaptive Security (AI cybersecurity defense, Series B, Remote) – Close enterprise deals for NVIDIA-backed AI cybersecurity platform

Sr. Director of Growth, Product at HighLevel (White-label marketing SaaS, Growth Stage, Remote) – Lead product-led growth strategy for platform serving 2M+ businesses

Biz Ops & Strategy

Go-to-Market (GTM) Operations at Adaptive Security (AI cybersecurity defense, Series B, NYC) – Build GTM operations infrastructure for rapidly scaling cybersecurity startup

Senior Research Manager at Listen Labs (AI research platform, Seed, SF) – Partner with customers to unlock insights from AI-powered interview analysis

Founding Operations at Nabi (Digital eating disorder care, Seed, NYC) – Build clinical operations engine powering AI-enabled behavioral healthcare

Operations Lead at Orchard Robotics (Agricultural robotics and AI, Series A, Palo Alto) – Lead field operations scaling AI-powered farming technology across US orchards

Head of Finance at Pylon (B2B support platform, Series B, SF) – Build finance function from ground up, scaling from $10M to $100M ARR

Operations Lead at Axe (Value-based healthcare platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Partner with CEO on highest-priority initiatives across strategy and ops

Director of Finance at Tremendous (Corporate card and finance platform, Series D, Remote) – Lead security operations protecting $10B+ in customer transactions

Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff at Rothy's (Sustainable fashion brand, Growth Stage, SF) – Partner with CEO on strategic planning and cross-functional execution

Chief of Staff, CRO at attentive (AI marketing personalization, Series E, Remote) – Drive strategic initiatives and operational excellence for CRO organization

Chief of Staff at Beam Impact (Loyalty platform for nonprofits, Series A, Remote) – Partner with CEO driving strategy and execution across the organization

Chief of Staff to the Chief Administrative Officer at OpenGov (Government ERP and AI platform, Growth Stage, Boston) – Drive strategic initiatives for Chief Administrative Officer at govtech leader

Chief of Staff at Arch (B2B marketing intelligence, Growth Stage, SF) – Drive collections strategy optimizing revenue recovery for enterprise accounts

Chief of Staff to CPO/CLO at EvenUp (AI data infrastructure, Series B, SF) – Build ML products for observability platform handling petabyte-scale data

Pre-Seed

• $4m for KaliSpot from Atlanta, US (Finance, Financial Services).

Seed

• $1m for Reprai Inc from Wilmington, US (AI, Healthcare) with funding from Simya VC, Arya Women.

• $1.75m for Mitera Biosciences from Bellevue, US (Biotech, Data & Analytics)

• $7.5m for Traini Inc from Palo Alto, US (AI, AI Chatbots) with funding from FutureX Capital, NYX Ventures Partners and others.

Series B

• $39m for Addionics from London, UK (Automotive, Consumer Electronics) with funding from Scania Group, General Motors Ventures and others.

Series C

• $55m for CHAMP from Cleveland, US (Cloud, Consulting) with funding from ORIX USA, Point72 Ventures and 1 more.

IPO

• Insilico Medicine from Bethesda, US (Aging, Bioinformatics)

Acquisitions

• AtomIQ from Somerset, US (Logistics/Supply Chain, Manufacturing) acquired by Nuclear Diamond Batteries, Inc..

• Jasper PIM from Toronto, Canada (Consulting, IT) acquired by Venzee Technologies.

• Umnico from London, UK (CRM, Marketing & Sales) acquired by T2 Russia.

• $400m for ON24 from San Francisco, US (AI, Education) acquired by Cvent.

Next week is JPM’s annual Healthcare Conference in SF. If you’re in the area and interested in healthtech, you should try to attend some of the events surrounding JPM26 if you’re not able to go to the main conference.

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More soon,

Team @ The Talent Foundry