Issue No. 27 —The Talent Foundry

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, Sales, GTM and Data Science

• Who’s raised: 15+ new raise announcements

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

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Who’s hiring

New this week: 24 new startups including Dash0, Docker, Doppel, Flagright

Product

Founding Product Manager - France at voize (Voice AI for nursing documentation, Series A, Remote) – Lead France product launch from discovery through pilot to scale

Technical Product Manager at Archive (Branded resale platform, Series B, Remote) – Own technical product roadmap for logistics and marketplace systems

Product Manager at Latent (AI clinical workflow automation, Series B, NYC) – Define and build products for medication access and prior auth automation

Senior Product Manager (Contact Center Strategy) at Lendbuzz (AI auto lending platform, Debt Financing, Remote) – Own contact center product strategy and servicing experience

Director of Product Strategy, Sales Engagement at Outreach (Sales engagement AI platform, Late Stage, Seattle) – Own product strategy for the sales engagement suite

Growth Product Manager at Ruby Labs (Consumer mobile apps, Remote) – Drive ARPU growth through retention and engagement optimization

Staff Product Manager, Content Agent at Sanity (AI content operating system, Series C, Remote) – Own Content Agent product vision across studio, dashboard, and API

Product Manager, Artists & Creators  at Suno (AI music creation platform, Series C, Boston) – Own product experience for professional artists and creators

Senior Product Manager at Topline Pro (AI for home service pros, Series B, NYC) – Drive product roadmap for AI marketing and ops automation

Product Manager at Doppel (AI social engineering defense, Series C, Remote) – Drive product strategy for threat detection and platform capabilities

VP Product, Customer Growth & Experience at Neo Financial (Digital banking for Canada, Series D, Calgary) – Lead customer growth and experience product vision across the app

GTM/Growth/Marketing

Sales Strategy & Operations Manager at Ironclad (AI contract lifecycle platform, Series E, Remote) – Own sales strategy and ops across pipeline, comp, and territory

Founding Product Marketing Manager at Vantage (Cloud cost optimization FinOps, Series A, Remote) – Shape product positioning and GTM strategy as first PMM hire

Founding (Enterprise) Account Executive at voize (Voice AI for nursing documentation, Series A, Remote) – Lead France market entry and close enterprise healthcare deals

Revenue Strategy & Ops Manager at Decagon (AI customer support agents, Series D, SF) – Own revenue strategy and ops across pipeline, forecasting, and systems

Founding Account Executive at Lightfield (AI-native CRM from email, Series A, NYC) – Drive early sales motion from first customer to repeatable playbook

Marketing Ops and Strategy Lead at Render (Developer cloud platform, Series C, Remote) – Own marketing ops and strategy for demand gen and lifecycle programs

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Dash0 (OpenTelemetry observability, Series B, Remote) – Shape product positioning and messaging for developer audiences

Sales Operations Manager at Front (B2B customer operations platform, Series D, SF) – Drive sales ops infrastructure across deals, forecasting, and tools

Head of Data Strategy & Access  at Method Financial (Real-time liability API platform, Series A, Remote) – Lead data partnerships strategy and institution access expansion

Staff Enterprise Product Marketing Manager at Sanity (AI content operating system, Series C, Remote) – Position products for developers and enterprise decision-makers

Fraud Operations Manager, Consumer Technology at Suno (AI music creation platform, Series C, Boston) – Build and scale fraud detection and trust operations

Growth Marketing Manager (PALs/Consumer) at Tavus (Real-time AI human simulation, Series A, SF) – Drive consumer growth marketing across paid and organic channels

Head of Talent Brand Content and Growth Marketing at TRM Labs (Blockchain analytics for compliance, Series C, Remote) – Own talent brand content and growth marketing to attract top talent

Senior Organic Growth Marketing Manager at Verifiable (Healthcare provider credentialing, Series B, Remote) – Own organic growth strategy across SEO, content, and community

VP, Sales [APAC] at Deepgram (Voice AI APIs for speech, Series C, Singapore) – Build and lead the APAC sales organization from the ground up

Biz Ops & Strategy

GTM Strategy Manager at Scribe (Process documentation AI, Series C, Remote) – Build and deploy AI agents for GTM workstreams and territory strategy

Performance Marketing Architecture & Strategy Lead at Freshpaint (HIPAA-compliant data platform, Series B, Remote) – Lead performance marketing product strategy and technical architecture

Marketplace Operations Manager at WorkWhile (Flexible workforce marketplace, Series B, Remote) – Optimize marketplace operations across supply, demand, and fulfillment

Biz Ops Manager (Commercial Ops) at Metabase (Open-source BI analytics, Series B, Remote) – Own commercial ops systems across billing, pricing, and revenue tools

People Operations Manager at Notabene (Crypto compliance infrastructure, Series B, Remote) – Run global people ops across a 50-person distributed team

Global Ads Strategy Manager- Tokyo at Plaud (AI voice recorder hardware, Seed, Tokyo) – Own Japan ads strategy across formats, platforms, and performance

Clinical Strategy & Operations Manager  (Remote) at Rula (Mental health care platform, Series C, Remote) – Drive clinical strategy and ops initiatives across provider network

Strategy & Operations Manager at BetterUp (AI coaching for enterprise, Series E, Austin) – Drive operational efficiency across Account Management sales workflows

Deal Strategy & Ops at Clay Labs (AI-powered GTM data platform, Series C, Remote) – Own deal strategy, pricing, and revenue ops for enterprise accounts

Finance & Strategy Associate at Phia (AI fashion shopping app, Series A, NYC) – Support FP&A, investor comms, and financial ops at a scaling startup

Founding AE at Sapien (AI autonomous CFO platform, Seed, NYC) – Own full-cycle enterprise sales from first call to close

Senior Associate, Strategic Finance & Os at Mandolin (AI clinical finance infrastructure, Series A, NYC) – Build the strategic finance function across FP&A, ops, and compliance

Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff at Ema (Universal AI employee platform, Series A, SF) – Build company operating systems across people, process, and strategy

Chief of Staff, Marketing at Clay Labs (AI-powered GTM data platform, Series C, Remote) – Drive marketing strategy and execution as right hand to CMO

Chief of Staff at Sapiom (Payment rails for AI agents, Seed, SF) – Architect the company operating system as executive proxy to CEO

Chief of Staff at Somethings (Teen social wellness platform, Series A, Remote) – Drive cross-functional initiatives and scale-up operations

Chief of Staff to CPO/CLO at EvenUp (AI for personal injury law, Series F, Remote) – Partner with CPO/CLO on Product and Legal strategic initiatives

Chief of Staff at Koah (Native ads for generative AI, Series A, NYC) – Solve biggest business problems across sales, product, and ops

Chief of Staff to CEO  at Multiverse (AI/tech upskilling apprenticeships, Series D, London) – Partner with CEO on highest-priority strategic initiatives

Chief of Staff at Radiant Industries (Portable nuclear microreactors, Series D, DC) – Drive regulatory affairs strategy and government stakeholder engagement

Chief of Staff at Arch (Private investment automation, Series B, NYC) – Partner with CEO on strategic initiatives across ops, product, and growth

Chief of Staff at Duet (NP primary care network, Series B, Remote) – Drive key initiatives across external partnerships, content, and ops

Data & Analytics

Senior Data Scientist, Content + Social at Suno (AI music creation platform, Series C, Boston) – Own content and social analytics driving creator engagement

Analytics Manager, GTM  at Docker (Container platform for developers, Late Stage, Remote) – Build GTM analytics for Sales pipeline and PLG conversion insights

Senior Data Scientist - Payments Operations at Preply (Language tutoring marketplace, Series D, Remote) – Own payments data science across risk, fraud, and optimization

Staff ML Research Scientist, Pegasus at TwelveLabs (Multimodal video AI models, Series A, SF) – Lead ML research for next-gen multimodal video foundation models

Senior Marketing Analyst (Contract) at Strava (Fitness social network, Late Stage, SF) – Measure marketing performance and drive MAU and subscription growth

Head of Marketing Operations and GTM Analytics at LangChain (Agent engineering platform, Series B, SF) – Lead marketing ops and GTM analytics to scale data-driven growth

Senior Data Scientist at Lyric (AI supply chain optimization, Series F, Wilmington) – Build ML models for supply chain forecasting and optimization

Companies That Raised This Week

YC’s Winter 2026 Batch is historically strong, so be sure to check these companies out for opportunities to join a potential rocketship. You’ll see some of them below in Seed, having closed a $500k check from YC. Oftentimes these are followed by bigger rounds, so watch out for more from these companies later.

Seed (YC = $500k)

• $500k for Eos AI from San Francisco, US (AI, Data & Analytics)

• $500k for Lumius from Durham, US (Digital Health, Healthcare)

• $500k for Beacon Health from New York City, US (AI, Healthcare)

• $500k for Adialante from Redwood City, US (Health, Healthcare)

• $500k for Tepali from San Francisco, US (AI, Finance)

• $500k for Scheduling Wizard from San Francisco, US (AI, Healthcare)

• $500k for Taiga from San Francisco, US (AI, Billing)

• $500k for Maquoketa Research from Chicago, US (Defense & Military, Drone Deployment)

• $500k for Fort (YC W26) from San Francisco, US (Fitness, Fitness for Service)

• $500k for General Astronautics from San Francisco, US (Aerospace, Manufacturing)

• $44m for Noon from San Francisco, CA (Design Tech / AI Product Design)

Series A

• $80m for Latent Health from San Francisco, US (AI, Healthcare)

• $60m for Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals from New York City, US (Biotech, Health/Medical)

• $45m for Try Glimpse from New York City, US (Brand Innovation, Marketing & Sales)

• $19.3m for NeuBird AI from San Francisco, CA (AI / IT Operations & SRE)

Series B

• $3.48m for Elemeno Health from Oakland, US (Behavioral Health, Coaching)

• $137m for Sidewinder Therapeutics from San Diego, CA (Biotech / Oncology (ADCs)) with funding from Frazier Life Sciences and Novartis Venture Fund

• $111.7m for Starfish Space from Tukwila, WA (Space Tech / Satellite Servicing)

Series C

• $230m for Science Corporation from Alameda, US (Biotech, Biotech R&D)

• $350m for Hermeus from Atlanta, GA (Defense / Hypersonic Aviation)

• $40m for True Footage from Austin, US (Consulting, Residential)

• $650m for Slate Auto from USA (Electric Vehicles / Automotive)

• $125m for Aria Networks from Palo Alto, CA (AI Infrastructure / Networking)

Series D+

• $150m for Eight Sleep Inc. from New York City, US (Fitness, Health)

• $80m for Life Biosciences from Boston, MA (Biotech / Longevity)

• $100m for Chapter from New York, NY (HealthTech / Medicare Platform)

• $400m for SiFive from Santa Clara, CA (Semiconductors / RISC-V)

Acquisition, Post-IPO, PE

• Go Deed Inc from Brooklyn, US (B2B/Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility) acquired by Bonterra.

• Pledge Health from Seattle, US (Health/Medical, Healthcare) acquired by Collectly.

• Inflow. from New York City, US (Health/Medical, Mental Health) acquired by Cerebral Inc.

What We’re Reading and Watching

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More soon,

Team @ The Talent Foundry