Issue No. 19 —The Talent Foundry

Roles at Plaid, Perplexity, Finch, Broccoli, Ema and more

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Daniel James & Adam Casson
February 17, 2026

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

Check out the latest roles below. This week we have some interesting roles in Data / Analytics in addition to the usual areas. In this edition:

  • Who’s hiring: ~50 roles across Biz Ops & Strategy, Chief of Staff, Product, Marketing and Data Science

  • Who’s raised: 15+ new raise announcements

  • What we’re reading: 6 articles to help you operate successfully in the startup world and find your next thing.

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Who’s hiring

Product

Founding Product Manager at Finch Legal (AI-powered legal infrastructure for consumer law, Seed, Remote) – Own product vision for the platform automating pre-litigation, serving top law firms nationwide

Product Manager - AI at Rillet (AI-native ERP for accounting teams, Series B, Remote) – Own the AI product roadmap, building specialized agents that drive zero-day close for finance teams

Global Payroll Programs & Product Manager at Deel (All-in-one global payroll and HR platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Own global payroll programs, driving product strategy for multi-country payroll infrastructure at scale

Director of Product, Growth at Unwrap (AI-powered feedback intelligence platform, Series A, Santa Barbara) – Grow a flagship product from $0 to millions in ARR, owning marketing, pricing, and competitive strategy

Senior Product Manager at Unify (AI-powered system of action for revenue teams, Series A, SF) – Own product direction on a small elite team, building the future of outbound GTM execution

Senior Product Manager, E-commerce & Growth at ZOE (Personalized nutrition science platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Own e-commerce and membership journeys, scaling the purchasing experience for millions of health-conscious consumers

Product Manager, PLG (Product Led Growth) at Weave (AI-powered healthcare practice software, Growth Stage, Remote) – Own the self-serve PLG motion, using Agentic AI to automate onboarding and drive product adoption across healthcare verticals

Product Manager, Activation & Growth at Character.AI (Leading consumer AI entertainment platform, Growth Stage, SF) – Own activation and growth, driving millions of users from first interaction to power user engagement

Product Manager at Outset (AI-powered user research platform, Series B, SF) – Shape product strategy for the leading AI research tool, scaling across enterprise customers growing 8x YoY

Senior Product Manager at Freshpaint (HIPAA-compliant data platform for healthcare, Series A, Remote) – Own product strategy for the data governance layer enabling healthcare companies to run marketing compliantly

Founding Product Manager at Harper (AI-led commercial insurance distribution, Early Stage, NYC) – Be Harper's first PM, building the connective tissue between engineering and business at 100x growth

GTM/Growth/Marketing

Revenue Strategy & Operations Manager at Decagon (Conversational AI for enterprise CX, Series B, SF) – Build and scale revenue strategy and operations, optimizing the GTM engine for enterprise AI sales

Growth Manager at Archive (Branded resale platform for circular commerce, Series A, Remote) – Drive growth strategy and execution, scaling the resale marketplace powering 50+ global brands

Founding Enterprise Account Executive at Broccoli AI (AI agents for home service businesses, Series A, NYC) – Build enterprise sales from the ground up, closing six-figure deals for AI-powered front office automation

Founding Senior Customer Success Manager, London at Adaptive Security (AI cybersecurity stopping deepfake attacks, Series B, London) – Launch and scale customer success in EMEA, building the playbook for a $81M-funded AI security platform

APAC Director of Operations/Strategy at Sentient (Open-source AI platform, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead APAC strategy and operations, driving partnerships and community growth across key Asian markets

Senior RevOps Manager at EvenUp (AI-powered legal tech for injury lawyers, Series B, Remote) – Own marketing operations and revenue infrastructure, driving attribution and lifecycle optimization across GTM

Marketplace Ops Manager EMEA at Deel (All-in-one global payroll and HR platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Scale marketplace operations across EMEA, optimizing partner and contractor engagement in 150+ countries

Revenue Strategy & Operations Lead at Serval (AI platform replacing ServiceNow for IT teams, Seed, SF) – Build and scale revenue operations from the ground up, designing the systems that fuel enterprise growth

Growth Marketing Senior Specialist at hive.co (Event marketing platform for 1,500+ venues, Early Stage, Remote) – Drive content-led acquisition and lifecycle marketing across the full customer journey

Regional Vice President, AI-Native at Rox Data Corp (AI-native revenue operating system, Series A, SF) – Lead enterprise sales into AI-native companies, selling the future of autonomous CRM to modern GTM teams

Head of Growth at Playbook (Creator marketplace for fitness and wellness, Series A, Remote) – Build Playbook's growth engine from scratch, testing and scaling acquisition channels and growth loops

VP Revenue Operations & GTM Strategy at Camunda (Enterprise process orchestration platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Lead global revenue operations and GTM strategy, scaling a 700+ customer enterprise automation platform

Biz Ops & Strategy

Senior Product Strategy & Operations Manager at Canary technologies (AI-powered hotel tech platform, Series B, NYC) – Shape product strategy and operations for a platform serving 20,000+ hotels across 100+ countries

Strategy & Operations Senior Associate at Valon Tech (AI-native OS for regulated finance, Series C, NYC) – Shape strategy and operations for the mortgage servicing platform transforming $110B+ in loans

Business Operations Manager at brightwheel (Leading early education platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Drive operational efficiency across business functions, partnering cross-functionally to scale a Cloud 100 company

Senior Director, Customer Strategy and Operations at Decagon (Conversational AI for enterprise CX, Series B, SF) – Lead customer strategy and operations, scaling how enterprise clients deploy and succeed with AI agents

Strategy Manager, Fraud at Kraken (Leading crypto exchange, Growth Stage, Remote) – Lead fraud strategy and operations, building frameworks to detect and mitigate financial crime at scale

Operations and Strategy Associate at Greenboard (AI-native compliance OS for financial firms, Seed, NYC) – Drive strategy and operations at a YC-backed fintech, supporting growth from early stage through scale

Launch Operations Manager, Scribe at Commure (AI healthcare documentation and coding, Series C, SF) – Lead launch operations for clinical AI products, driving deployments across hundreds of care sites

Founding People Operations Associate  at Probook (AI-powered booking platform, Early Stage, NYC) – Build people operations and recruiting infrastructure from scratch, partnering directly with the founders

Strategic Finance Lead at Rox Data Corp (AI-native revenue operating system, Series A, SF) – Own compute economics and gross margin analysis, building the financial systems that make AI scaling decisions clear

Finance Operations Lead at Distyl AI (Production-grade AI systems for Fortune 500, Early Stage, Remote) – Build finance operations from the ground up at an OpenAI-partnered AI company serving Fortune 500 clients

RCM Manager at Finni Health (Platform for autism care providers, Series A, Remote) – Own revenue cycle operations, driving denial management and payer relations to optimize cash flow

Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff to the COO at Ema (Universal AI Employee platform for enterprises, Series B, Remote) – Architect Ema as an AI-first organization, building the operational blueprint for scaling autonomous AI employees

Chief of Staff, Strategy at Aledade (Value-based care platform for primary care, Growth Stage, Arlington) – Partner with the CSO to drive alignment across strategy, people, comms, and transformation planning

Chief of Staff, Office of the President at Ambience Healthcare (AI clinical documentation platform, Series B, SF) – Partner with the President to drive strategic initiatives across a fast-scaling healthcare AI company

Chief of Staff, Office of the CEO at Bjak (SE Asia digital insurance and AI applications, Series B, Remote) – Support US office launch, driving early hiring, partnerships, and cross-functional execution from zero

Chief of Staff - UK at Bjak (SE Asia digital insurance and AI applications, Series B, Remote) – Lead UK operations for a high-growth fintech, driving strategy and execution across new market entry

Chief of Staff at Probook (AI-powered booking platform, Early Stage, NYC) – Build the entire operational foundation — finance, admin, people ops, and systems — from the ground up

Chief of Staff at Harper (AI-led commercial insurance distribution, Early Stage, NYC) – Serve as an extension of the CEO, running operations across a company growing 100x YoY

Chief of Staff to the CMO at EliseAI (AI agents for housing and healthcare, Series E, NYC) – Partner with the CMO to drive strategic initiatives and operational excellence across marketing

Data & Analytics

Senior Data Scientist, Growth at Pearl Health (Value-based primary care platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Bridge data science and growth as a sales-oriented DS, leading cross-functional initiatives and translating analytics for enterprise healthcare buyers

Senior Data Scientist - Payments at Plaid (Financial infrastructure platform, Growth Stage, SF/NYC) – Own data science for ACH payments, building models that power the financial tools millions rely on daily

Data Scientist, Evals  at Perplexity (AI-powered answer engine, Growth Stage, SF) – Build specialized evaluation pipelines to measure and improve answer quality across Perplexity's LLM-powered search engine

Data Scientist at Solace (Healthcare navigation and advocacy platform, Series C, Remote) – Drive data science for the platform pairing patients with expert advocates to navigate the complexity of US healthcare

Head of Product Data Science at Abridge (AI clinical documentation platform, Series C, Remote) – Lead product data science for the AI platform transforming patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes

Data Scientist - Fraud & Risk at Socure (Digital identity verification infrastructure, Growth Stage, Remote) – Build fraud detection and risk models for the identity trust platform verifying millions of identities across enterprises and government

Head of Data Intelligence  at Supabase (Open-source developer backend platform, Growth Stage, Remote) – Raise the data IQ of the entire organization, embedding analytics across strategic planning, product decisions, and GTM execution

Who’s Raised

Find startups that have runway

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Series D

  • $118m for Garner Health from New York City, US (Doctor Consultation, Health/Medical)

  • $210m for Talkiatry from New York City, US (Health/Medical, Healthcare)

Acquisition/PE

What We’re Reading

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Team @ The Talent Foundry