Issue No. 15 —The Talent Foundry

Roles at MagicSchool, OpenAI, Cardless, Elise, Perplexity, and more

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Daniel James & Adam Casson
January 20, 2026

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

Check out the latest roles below. In this edition:

  • Who’s hiring: ~70 roles across Biz Ops & Strategy, Chief of Staff, Product and Marketing

  • Who’s raised: 20+ new raise announcements

  • What we’re reading: 5 articles to help you operate successfully in the startup world and find your next thing.

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Who’s hiring

Product 

Growth Product Manager | Housing at EliseAI (AI agents for housing/healthcare, Series E, NYC) – Own growth levers and drive product-led expansion in housing vertical

Product Manager at Cardless (Credit card & loyalty platform, Early Stage, SF) – Shape product strategy for next-gen credit card programs

Agent Product Manager at Decagon (AI customer experience platform, Early Stage, SF) – Own agent product development for enterprise CX at scale

Agent Product Manager at Decagon (AI customer experience platform, Early Stage, NYC) – Own agent product development for enterprise CX at scale

Founding Senior Product Manager at Retell AI (AI voice agents for call centers, Early Stage, SF) – Shape CX platform vision as first product hire at $36M ARR

AI Product Manager at Unwrap (AI feedback insights platform, Early Stage, Remote) – Own AI product roadmap serving DoorDash, Stripe, and more

Senior Product Manager at 0g Labs (Decentralized AI infrastructure, Early Stage, Remote) – Own product strategy for core AI infrastructure components

AI Chatbot Product Manager at binance (Global crypto exchange, Late Stage, Asia) – Own AI chatbot product for 280M+ user platform

AI Product Manager at binance (Global crypto exchange, Late Stage, Asia) – Drive AI product strategy across trading and finance

Product Lead, Compliance at binance (Global crypto exchange, Late Stage, Asia) – Lead compliance product across 100+ country operations

Senior Product Manager - AI & Operational Efficiency at binance (Global crypto exchange, Late Stage, Asia) – Drive AI & operational efficiency across platform

Product Manager, Upmarket & Integrations at Heidi Health (AI clinical documentation, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead upmarket expansion and build integrations across 116 countries

Senior Product Manager, Collaboration at FLORA (AI creative tools platform, Series A, NYC) – Own multiplayer features: marketplace, API, and enterprise workflows

Senior Product Manager  at FleetWorks (Voice AI for freight logistics, Early Stage, SF) – Own and scale carrier voice AI product to industry standard adoption

GTM/Growth/Marketing

Product Marketing Manager at Perplexity (AI answer engine, Early Stage, SF) – Architect product narrative and build systematic launch engine

Product Marketing Manager ChatGPT, Campaigns  at OpenAI (Building AGI, Early Stage, SF) – Drive ChatGPT campaigns that fuel awareness and engagement

Director of Product Marketing at MagicSchool AI (AI platform for educators, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead PMM team and translate AI capabilities into adoption drivers

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Harvey (AI for legal services, Early Stage, SF) – Drive product positioning for 700+ enterprise customers globally

Senior Product Marketing Manager | Housing at EliseAI (AI agents for housing/healthcare, Series E, NYC) – Lead product marketing strategy across housing vertical

Product Marketing Lead, AI & Platform at Deel (Global payroll & HR platform, Late Stage, Remote) – Own AI & platform positioning for 150+ country expansion

Director, Product Marketing at Atlan (Active metadata platform, Early Stage, NYC) – Lead product marketing and drive category leadership globally

Product Marketing Lead at Anything (AI product engineer for apps, Early Stage, SF) – Own go-to-market launches and turn product velocity into momentum

Product Marketing Manager at Sierra (AI customer experience platform, Early Stage, SF) – Shape product positioning for enterprise AI agents at scale

Founding Product Marketer at Dust (AI work operating system, Early Stage, Paris) – Define go-to-market narrative to fuel 6x growth by year end

Founding Product Marketer at Delve (AI-native compliance platform, Series A, SF) – Shape positioning and drive launches for $300M-valued compliance leader

Founding North America GTM Lead  at adaption (Continual learning AI, Early Stage, Remote) – Build North America GTM from zero as first commercial hire

Product Marketing Manager at Resolve AI (AI for on-call engineering, Early Stage, SF) – Define product positioning and drive developer adoption

Head of Revenue Cycle Management at Duet (NP-owned primary care network, Early Stage, Remote) – Build and lead revenue cycle operations from credentialing to collections

Founding Partnerships Lead (US) at Dust (AI work operating system, Early Stage, NYC) – Build US partnerships to fuel 6x growth target

Head of Marketing at Extend (AI document processing cloud, Series A, SF) – Turn rocketship traction into dominant category leadership

Head of Demand Generation & Growth at Harvey (AI for legal services, Early Stage, SF) – Build and scale demand generation for 700+ customer base

Performance Marketing Lead, Growth at Harvey (AI for legal services, Early Stage, SF) – Own performance marketing to drive enterprise pipeline

Founding GTM Lead at Prime Intellect (Open superintelligence infra, Early Stage, SF) – Build founding GTM motion for AI research infrastructure

CMO, Head of Marketing at 0g Labs (Decentralized AI infrastructure, Early Stage, SF) – Own global narrative and growth engine for AI x Web3 category

Senior Product Marketing Manager at april (Embedded tax platform, Early Stage, NYC) – Shape B2B positioning across wealth, banking, and SaaS verticals

Head of Revenue Operations at Ambient.ai (AI physical security platform, Series B, Remote) – Build and scale revenue operations for enterprise growth

Founding Technical Account Executive at Antimetal (AI infrastructure management, Early Stage, NYC) – Own full sales cycle and build founding GTM playbooks

Head of Revenue Operations at ashby (All-in-one recruiting platform, Early Stage, Remote) – Build revenue operations for 4,000+ customer base

Head of Demand Generation at Ashby (All-in-one recruiting platform, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead demand generation during high-growth scaling phase

Founding Mid Market Account Executive at Complete (Compensation infrastructure, Early Stage, Remote) – Own mid-market sales cycle from prospecting to close

Founding Payor Partnerships Lead at Duet (NP-owned primary care network, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead payor partnerships and shape reimbursement strategy

Head of Growth and Marketing at Duet (NP-owned primary care network, Seed, Remote) – Build growth engine from scratch at seed-stage healthcare startup

Director of Product Marketing at Assort Health (AI patient experience platform, Early Stage, SF) – Lead product marketing for 90M+ patient interaction platform

Biz Ops & Strategy

Business Operations Lead at Atticus (Legal aid for people in crisis, Series C, Remote) – Drive business operations for $4B+ aid platform

Manager, Customer Strategy & Success at Duet (NP-owned primary care network, Seed, Remote) – Own customer success and drive NP practice engagement

Business Operations Manager at Flux (AI hardware engineer platform, Early Stage, Remote) – Build operational backbone for hypergrowth hardware AI startup

SVP, Strategy at Darkroom (AI-powered growth marketing, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead strategy consulting for next-gen brand growth

Founding Operations Coordinator at Ambrook (Fintech for American agriculture, Series A, Remote) – Build operational foundation for farm & ranch lending platform

Business Operations Lead at Prime Intellect (Open superintelligence infra, Early Stage, SF) – Build operational backbone for hypergrowth AI infrastructure

Head of Operations and Strategy at OpenAI (Building AGI, Early Stage, SF) – Build scalable operating models for global product deployment

Corporate Development, Strategy & Scouting Lead at OpenAI (Building AGI, Early Stage, SF) – Lead M&A scouting and translate strategy into acquisition targets

Compute Business Operations Lead  at OpenAI (Building AGI, Early Stage, SF) – Drive compute infrastructure initiatives across engineering and ops

Head of Finance at Copilot Money (Personal finance tracker app, Early Stage, NYC) – Own all financial responsibilities at consumer fintech

Head of People Operations at Abridge (AI clinical documentation, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead people operations during rapid healthcare AI scaling

Operations Manager at 0g Labs (Decentralized AI infrastructure, Early Stage, SF) – Streamline operations and project manage key company initiatives

Director, Creative Strategy at Darkroom (AI-powered growth marketing, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead creative strategy across brand growth portfolio

Strategic Finance Lead at Valon Tech (AI mortgage servicing platform, Series C, NYC) – Lead strategic finance for $110B+ loan portfolio operations

Business Operations and Strategy Lead at Parafin (SMB financial tools platform, Series C, SF) – Drive strategy and operations for DoorDash/Amazon partnership growth

Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff at april (Embedded tax platform, Early Stage, NYC) – Partner with CEO to drive execution during scaling phase

Chief of Staff - People at Sword Health (AI healthcare platform, Late Stage, Portugal) – Partner with CPO to scale people operations globally

Chief of Staff at tem (Direct renewable energy trading, Early Stage, London) – Drive operational excellence across scaling energy platform

Chief of Staff at Maven AGI (Enterprise AI for customer service, Early Stage, Remote) – Drive strategic initiatives for HubSpot/Google/Stripe founded startup

Chief of Staff - CEO at Casap (AI dispute automation for banks, Series A, Remote) – Own strategic planning and drive execution during hyper-growth

Chief of Staff to the CEO at EliseAI (AI agents for housing/healthcare, Series E, NYC) – Partner with CEO on highest-priority strategic initiatives

Chief of Staff to the CMO at EliseAI (AI agents for housing/healthcare, Series E, NYC) – Drive marketing org efficiency as CMO's strategic partner

Chief of Staff at Profound (AI presence management platform, Early Stage, SF) – Drive strategic initiatives and create leverage across the business

Chief of Staff, Tech Team  at Profound (AI presence management platform, Early Stage, SF) – Partner with CTO to turn technical vision into high-velocity reality

Chief of Staff at Tandem (AI for clinical trials, Early Stage, NYC) – Own critical initiatives at biopharma platform with PMF

Who’s Raised

Find startups that have runway

Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 batch of 39 companies has started. Look out for news on these companies - some may turn into rocketships and several have already raised big rounds.

Pre-Seed

  • $4.2m for diffraqtion from Somerville, US (Computational Optics, Defense)

  • $3.7m for Xella Health from San Francisco, US (AI, Diagnostic Overview)

Seed

  • $4.95m for Osheru - Ziplyft from Bend, US (Health/Medical, Manufacturing)

  • $80m for Proxima Bio from New York City, US (Biotech, Biotech R&D)

Series A

  • ¥80m for Signet Therapeutics from Boston, US (Biotech, Biotech R&D)

  • $60m for Cytotheryx from Rochester, US (Biotech, Biotechnology AI)

  • $11m for RISA Labs from Palo Alto, US (Cancer Care, Healthcare)

  • Recludix Pharma from San Diego, US (Biotech, Health/Medical)

  • $5m for Coxwave from Seoul, South Korea and San Jose, US (AI, Governance)

  • $1.3m for Elyos AI from London, England (AI Agents, Services)

Series B

Series C

  • $60m for Tive Inc from Boston, US (Automotive, Aviation)

Series D

Acquisition

What We’re Reading

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More soon,

Team @ The Talent Foundry