AI Strategy & Operations Associate

Light; København; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Light is hiring for the AI Academy Intake in Copenhagen. This on-site, full-time role focuses on building agentic factories that rethink what AI makes possible across product, marketing, implementation, and customer service.

You will develop cross-functional skills through hands-on AI training and projects with direct influence on multiple business areas. As part of the AI Academy, you’ll drive initiatives that blend technology and business outcomes, while collaborating with exceptional

Qualifications

• Exceptional level of achievement demonstrated by record in highly competitive endeavours.
• Ability to work across multiple functions and learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Rethink work from first principles across marketing, sales, finance, partnerships, customer success, or product.
• Own operations end to end across finance ops, people ops, and legal/compliance, working with the CEO.
• Build agents and workflows yourself, identifying opportunities to automate or standardise manual work.
• Move fast and ship a first version in hours, iterating rapidly.
• Participate in the AI Academy and apply learnings across functions.
• Own projects through delivery from scoping to final handover.

Job description

AI Academy Intake - Copenhagen (on-site, full-time)

At Light, we're redefining how software is built, how it's delivered, and how it works.

We're building organic software. Software that heals itself. Software that adapts to the user and the business. Software that learns and gets better as it's used.

Our starting point is finance. Companies including Legora, Lovable, and Fuse Energy run on Light. We're building towards a platform that understands how each business operates and evolves with it.

The AI Academy

The AI Academy is where Light builds its future leaders for an ever-changing world. It's a small cohort of exceptional early-career people who take an operating process in marketing, sales, finance, partnerships, customer success, product or any other team, and rebuild it so AI agents do the work and humans handle the exceptions. Then they move on to the next one.

We believe roles will increasingly merge, and that cross-functional collaboration and broad knowledge of the business will define high-performing teams. The Academy is built around that:

1. Training. You start with a period of training on how to use AI to drive business outcomes: tools, agents, automations, and how to judge their output.

2. Several functions at once. You then apply it across several functions, splitting your time between teams such as marketing, sales, finance, partnerships, customer success and product.

3. Focus. Over time you move into fewer functions, where you've had the most impact and want to go deepest.

In this role you're a member of Light's AI Academy. You'll undergo specialised AI training and be pushed to use AI in every aspect of your job and to re-think the status quo from first principles.

This training will enable you to effectively build operations and companies at scale. If you aspire to be a future single-person unicorn founder, this is the ideal training ground.

Who this is for

You must meet this requirement: an exceptional level of achievement in a highly competitive endeavour. Work experience in itself is irrelevant, past hires have been 17 years and older. For example:

• A gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) or International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)

• Experience at McKinsey QuantumBlack, the Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group or TMT group (regular IBD do not apply), Optiver, Jane Street or similar.

• Having built or sold a company

• Competed in elite-level sport (e.g. a sub-8-hour Ironman, the Olympic Games, or a European or World Championship, football or basketball at highest level)

• A FIDE chess rating of 2,400 or higher (IM level)

• An equivalent level of achievement in another highly competitive endeavour

• Top of class in high-school year

If you're applying with an equivalent achievement, explain the competition or field, your result, and the standard required to achieve it. If you don't have an equivalent level of achievement we encourage you to not apply.

Our bar at Light is high, and this is more than just a job. You will need the curiosity to explore unfamiliar areas, the willingness to go the extra mile to get things right, the discipline to test your assumptions, and the persistence to keep going when your first approach does not work.

We hold two bars: outperforming your metrics, and being kind and supportive of each other. Exceptional ability without kindness is not a fit.

What you'll work on

You'll be in charge of building agentic factories that re-think what is possible across product, marketing, implementation, customer service.

• Rethink work from first principles. Take a process in marketing, sales, finance, partnerships, customer success, or product. Ask what outcome it exists to deliver, and redesign it around what AI now makes possible. Making the old process faster is the easy part.

• Own operations end to end. Take full ownership of processes across finance operations, people operations, and legal and compliance, working directly with the CEO. Run them, then rebuild them so agents do the work and nothing falls through the cracks.

• Build the agents and workflows yourself. Identify where manual work can be automated or standardised, and build the solution rather than waiting for someone else to do so.

• Move fast. Ship a first version in hours and iterate several times a day.

• Participate in the AI Academy. Complete the specialised AI training, apply what you learn in every function you work in, and share what worked and what didn't so the rest of the cohort and the teams can adopt it.

• Own projects through delivery. Scope the problem, build the solution, debug regressions, and follow through until the team can rely on what you've shipped.

You'll work alongside exceptional colleagues.

What else we're looking for

• Clear thinking and the ability to explain your decisions, including what you tried and why it didn't work.

• Kindness. You make the people around you better.

How we'll measure success

Your work should produce measurable improvements: 10 to 1,000x output capacity.

What you'll get

• Full-time compensation above the standard market rate.

• Every tool available. We give everyone in the Academy access to all the AI tools on the market, and put you in the environment that will make you a success.

• A role based in our Copenhagen office, working alongside the teams and the AI Academy cohort.

• Ownership from your first day, with a path to owning a function.

Light is an equal opportunity employer.