Product Builder-Principal

AI Fund; Mountain View (CA); Sur place; USD 250 000 - 450 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive base salary

Equity in venture studio

Carry interest in VC fund

Medical, dental, vision, 401k

Résumé du poste

AI Fund in Mountain View seeks a technically deep Principal Builder who applies rigorous business judgment to transformational AI ideas. You will evaluate bets with elite founders and corporate partners, guiding early exploration through a 12-week Build.

You will recruit the founder, shape a strong thesis, and oversee product, user, and go-to-market guidance, deciding which ventures advance to formation and where to invest post-Build.

Qualifications

• Technical ability with frontier AI and hands-on coding.
• Experience as engineer, product manager, or founder including scrappy 0-to-1 work.
• Track record working with elite founders and senior executives with mutual respect.
• Ability to communicate with rigor, persuade through influence, and carry strong opinions.
• STEM or research degree from a top research university, or equivalent background.

Responsabilités

• Identify, shape, and validate new AI startup ideas with partners and founders.
• Build business cases covering market sizing, business model, go-to-market plans.
• Decide which ideas to invest in based on market opportunity and AI uniqueness.
• Help recruit the founder and assemble the Build team.
• Guide product, user, and go-to-market activities during the 12-week Build.
• Support follow-on investment decisions and portfolio support.

Connaissances

AI engineering

Product management

Founding experience

Strategic communication

Mathematics/Statistics

Formation

STEM degree

Outils

Python

ML frameworks

Description du poste

AI Fund is a venture studio founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. We build AI companies from the ground up with corporate partners, investors, and elite founders, backed by a fund from top-tier global corporations and VC firms. Our purpose is to build AI companies that move humanity forward.

A Principal Builder decides which bets are worth making. The core of the role is technical insight applied to business judgment: seeing how a deep tech idea can uniquely solve a market need, and bringing the intellectual heft that elite founders and corporate partners respect in a co-founder. You drive each idea forward until it's either falsified and ended, or handed to a newly formed company.

What You Will Do:

• Work with commercial partners, including corporates, VCs, and LPs, and with elite founders to identify, shape, and validate new company ideas.
• Build the business case for ideas that hold up: market sizing, business model, go-to-market plan, and a clear written thesis for the company.
• Decide which ideas to bet on, based on the size of the market opportunity and how uniquely AI can solve it.
• Help recruit the founder. Explain the idea to potential founders and Engineers in Residence, and help bring the right person on to lead the Build.
• Drive AI Fund's co-founding of companies with partners and founders, mainly through product, user, and go-to-market guidance during the 12-week Build.
• Build the recommendation on whether AI Fund should invest at the end of the Build, then support the AI Fund partner on follow-on investment and portfolio support.

Requirements For the Role Include:

• Technical ability, a real understanding of frontier AI, and hands-on experience coding with AI.
• Experience as an engineer, product manager, or founder, including scrappy 0-to-1 work.
• A track record of working with top talent, such as elite founders and senior executives, where both sides earn each other's respect and you make efficient use of their time.
• The ability to communicate with rigor, persuade through influence, and carry strong opinions with maturity.
• A STEM or research degree from a top research university, or an equivalent background where you've built the same rigor.

Who Is This Role For:

• A technically deep person whose business judgment is their strongest asset. This role shapes ideas, influences founders, and pushes AI Fund forward.
• Someone who still builds on weekends, at hackathons or on side projects, and who works well with everyone from elite founders to corporate partners.

This role is full-time at our HQ in Mountain View. This role will include a competitive base salary, carry interest in our VC fund, and equity in our venture studio. We also offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, and unlimited PTO.