GTM, Strategy & Delivery

Ankar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health and dental coverage

Flexible pension scheme with employer matching

Team lunches twice a week

Cycle to work scheme

Flexible work arrangements

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Ankar in New York is seeking a proactive individual to lead end-to-end delivery of customer POCs and new product rollouts. This role demands a builder's mindset with experience in high-ownership environments like startups or consulting. The position offers health insurance, flexible pension schemes, and a culture of deep collaboration. Candidates should thrive in ambiguity and have experience delivering products to enterprise customers. Visa sponsorship is available.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in startups, consulting, or similar roles.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and iterate quickly.
• Experience in designing and delivering products to enterprise customers (bonus).

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of customer POCs and new products.
• Partner with customers to design high-value POCs.
• Ensure successful adoption and value delivery.

Skills

Experience in a high-ownership environment

Ability to lead POCs and product rollouts

Extreme ownership mindset

Job description

The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) – yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.

Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting‑edge of AI.

We’re at an inflection point:

• We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier‑1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.
• We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys.
• Expanding our world‑class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of customer POCs and new product rollouts.
• Partner with customers to design and deliver high‑value POCs and new products.
• Work closely with customer teams to ensure successful adoption and value delivery.
• Turn customer feedback into clear product requirements.
• Spot emerging product opportunities across deployments.

What we are looking for

• 2+ years of experience in a high‑ownership environment (e.g., startups, consulting, banking, or similar fast‑moving roles).
• A builder’s mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, iterate quickly, and love creating order out of.
• Extreme ownership. You see problems before they happen, you take responsibility, and you deliver. This is how you grow—and how we win.
• Bonus points: You’ve had experience designing and delivery proof of concepts and new products to enterprise customers.

Culture at Ankar

Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best R&D teams create and protect ideas.

• Contrarian – we think from first principles: We think deeply, question assumptions, and build from first principles. The best ideas come from clarity and rigour.
• Creative – we build with taste: We’re building the R&D tools for the AI era and shaping what applied research looks like over the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last.
• Competitiveness – we play to win: We move with urgency and set a very high bar for ourselves and each other. Every win raises the bar. Every challenge sharpens us.

What We Put Behind Our People

Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly.

• Health Insurance: Full private health & dental coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension: Flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching on qualifying earnings.
• Food on us: Team lunches twice a week, plus dinner when working late in the office.
• Cycle to work: Green Commute initiative scheme (up to £3k) to help you get a new bike tax‑free.
• Way we work: We combine deep, in‑person collaboration (3 days/week in our Shoreditch office) with flexibility and trust. What matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from.
• Visa sponsorship: Yes