Co-Founder/CEO (AI For Tax Equity)

career; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading venture studio in the United States seeks an experienced individual to drive the launch and scaling of new businesses. The role requires hands-on experience in full-stack development and product management. Ideal candidates should be leaders with a strong entrepreneurial mindset, capable of fostering innovation in an ambiguous environment. Join this mission-driven startup environment and make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience shipping full-stack, cloud-native applications.
• Demonstrated 0-to-1 product building experience from concept to launch.
• Proven leadership experience in a product-driven organization.

Responsibilities

• Work with the AI Fund Leadership Team to launch new businesses.
• Translate regulatory expertise into scalable technical solutions.
• Recruit engineering talent and establish product development processes.

Skills

Full-stack development

Cloud-native applications

Product building experience

Leadership

Excellent communication

Entrepreneurial mindset

Job description

Overview

Who We Are: AI is the new electricity. Just as it transformed entire industries 100 years ago, AI is poised to do the same today. AI Fund is a venture studio that co-founds companies alongside entrepreneurs, and we build companies from inception to market launch. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, the $370 million-dollar funded venture studio is backed by top-tier VC firms and investors, and brings to bear the AI Fund teams’ combined experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and builders. Together, let’s build great companies that will move humanity forward.

Why Partner With AI Fund: We’ve been there. We’ve founded and scaled successful companies ourselves, and we know that creating meaningful startups is really hard. Many entrepreneurs toil with ideas for years. Many spend time building something without the foresight of limiting factors that could have been easily dismissed upfront. Accomplished execs often teeter between a desire to start a company and creating something great versus taking a job that is less fulfilling. If only someone could help with taking the risk out of turning an idea into reality and accelerate the company building process, more people would be inspired to start a company. Coming up with great ideas, turning the idea into a tangible product, assembling great teams, and helping raise capital is what we do. We shorten a process that can take years down to months. We make sure you are building a compelling product supported by great AI technology, and are surrounded by great teammates. But we also know that the process is not about us. It’s about great Founders and empowering them to do great things.

What We Seek

We are looking for passionate entrepreneurs with first-hand knowledge of the problem they have encountered or entrepreneurs that might match to a problem or idea we already have. It’s not a mandate, but ideally, we want people with experience solving business problems and have a keen eye for anticipating business risks. You may have been a product manager running a product or product line before. You may have been an engineer who has been on the front lines of helping shape a company. You may have been a management consultant who has experience in a particular vertical. Or perhaps you are a proven entrepreneur who recognizes that the difference between success and failure is razor-thin, and you want every advantage you can get. Lastly, we want people who are leaders. We desire people who can hire great people, get others excited about their vision, raise capital, and make it all happen.

Co-build with an industry partner

This new company will be launched in partnership with The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES), a Fortune 500 global energy company accelerating the future of energy. Together with their many stakeholders, they are improving lives by delivering the greener, smarter energy solutions the world needs. Their diverse workforce is committed to continuous innovation and operational excellence, while partnering with their customers on their strategic energy transitions and continuing to meet their energy needs today.

About Portfolio Company and Partnership

The IRA has created a once-in-a-generation market opportunity: hundreds of billions in clean energy investment requiring prevailing wage compliance, with projects losing billions for non-compliance. Manual, error-prone processes are costing projects millions in audit preparation and penalties, while CPA firms are overwhelmed by compliance demand with limited scalable solutions. This is a first-mover advantage in an emerging category with explosive growth potential.

AI Fund and AES are together launching a platform to efficiently manage the complex requirements for the tax credits introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act. The vision is to create the Carta for Tax Equity – a centralized and standardized platform for companies, investors, and auditors to collaborate on the complex requirements for the growing tax equity market.

What You Will Be Doing:

• The FIR will work with the AI Fund Leadership Team to launch and scale new businesses from the ground up. If you\'re obsessed with startups and building exceptional products this role is for you
• Partner closely with our PWA domain expert to translate deep regulatory expertise into scalable technical solutions
• Lead the technical build-out by recruiting engineering talent and establishing product development processes
• Drive product roadmap prioritization balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and compliance requirements
• Cultivate relationships with early adopters like AES and leading CPA/compliance firms to validate product-market fit
• Build feedback loops between domain expertise, customer insights, and engineering execution

What You Must Bring

• Hands-on experience shipping full-stack, cloud-native applications.
• Demonstrated 0-to-1 product building experience from concept to launch, either in a startup or within a larger company.
• Strong product instincts and decision-making skills, developed through experience as an engineer or product manager.
• Proven leadership experience in a product-driven organization, with a track record of driving innovation, inspiration and execution.
• Comfortable leading in ambiguity and acting with limited information at times.
• Excellent communication skills that inspire alignment and trust.
• Self-starter who will thrive in an ambiguous startup environment
• Competitive, entrepreneurial mindset
• Demonstrated experience building products and leading teams

Nice To Have

• Experience building products with a compliance component

Characteristics We Value

• Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one\'s actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity
• Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future
• Grit: able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times. High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure
• Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively gets things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation
• Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature

EEO Statement

At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.