Founding Analyst – Product & Domain Expert

Twenty Labs; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

401(k) with 4% match

Catered daily team lunch

San Mateo office with parking

Generous time off

Top-quality computers

Corporate AI subscriptions

Job summary

Twenty Labs is an applied research lab building AI-powered finance tools. We seek a Founding Analyst – Product & Domain Expert to shape our AI-native finance product, Compound, and guide product decisions with deep financial domain insight.

You will work directly with founders and engineers, evaluating AI outputs and prioritizing features that dramatically improve analyst workflows, including buy-side, real estate, and private equity use cases.

Qualifications

• Deep domain knowledge of financial analyst workflows and buy-side roles.
• Experience as an analyst at a top-tier hedge fund, PE, or real estate firm.
• AI-native; comfortable prototyping with AI tools and building workflows.

Responsibilities

• Shape the AI-native product for finance by leveraging analyst workflows.
• Evaluate AI output quality and prototype new features.
• Collaborate with founders and engineers to build user-centered tooling.

Skills

Financial analysis

Domain expertise

AI tools usage

Product sense

Communication skills

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Twenty Labs is an applied research lab working on augmenting knowledge workers, starting with finance. The penetration of AI in finance is still limited and we want to be the company that delivers AGI to finance through our product, Compound (@getcompoundai ). Some product videos can be found on LinkedIn , X , and YouTube .

You'll be joining a highly technical founding team, including leading researchers and engineers from Google DeepMind/Brain and Microsoft who pioneered research in language models, shipped GenAI products to billions in production, paired with domain expertise from top finance and consulting firms (Coatue, Bain, Y Combinator).

• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision insurance for you and dependents, including $0 premium plan with company HSA contribution
• 401(k) plan with 4% match
• Catered daily team lunch
• Urban downtown San Mateo office, 5-minute walk from Caltrain and free parking
• Time off as you need it
• Top-quality computers and ergonomic workspace
• Corporate AI subscriptions as much as you need for work

Our culture and how we operate

• We seek out the 10% of people who account for 90% of productivity and strive to be a small and talent-dense team.
• No formal performance reviews. If you're here, you're a high-performer.
• Our organization is flat with no middle managers and you will work directly with the founders who all code.
• No empire building – we operate as one team.
• If you see something you can fix efficiently end-to-end, just do it.
• We love being in-person at our San Mateo office 5-days a week for maximum bandwidth communication and enjoying delicious local food together.
• We write blameless post-mortems (incident reports) for any service outages to document and constantly improve reliability.
• We Feel the AGI and want to bring it to others to massively improve productivity.

Work Authorization

We prefer candidates who can start immediately, but can provide immigration assistance for exceptional cases.

Founding Analyst – Product & Domain Expert

Compensation: Base salary of $150,000 - $300,000. Top-of-market equity
Location: San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo, CA)

Your role

We're seeking someone with deep financial analyst domain expertise to help shape our AI-native product for finance. You've lived the analyst workflow at a top firm – you know the pain points, the data sources that matter, and what "good" looks like in financial analysis. You'll use that expertise to guide product decisions, evaluate AI output quality, and prototype new features. This isn't a traditional finance role – you'll work closely with founders and engineers, using AI tools daily to build the product that you wish you'd had.

You, the ideal candidate:

• Deep domain knowledge of financial analyst workflows, with experience in buy-side roles covering public markets, private real estate, or private equity
• Served as an analyst at a top-tier firm (e.g. leading hedge fund, PE firm, or real estate investment firm)
• AI-native – comfortable using tools like Claude Code to prototype ideas and build workflows
• Strong product sense with the ability to prioritize features that make analyst workflows dramatically better, identify high-value data to acquire, and understand what would drive adoption among other analysts
• Can evaluate and audit AI output for financial analysis – knows what good looks like and can establish quality benchmarks
• Excited to work at the intersection of finance and AI, shaping the product from the ground up
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate domain expertise into clear product requirements

Twenty Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other legally protected status.