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Romania

  • Drive technical and product development for an AI-powered B2B venture from problem validation to MVP.
  • Design data strategy, including collection, labeling, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
  • Architect and deliver a reliable prototype or MVP, incorporating APIs, data pipelines, and safeguards.

Machine Learning Software Engineering MLOps Data Pipelines Product Management

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Europe

  • Identify and implement new martech solutions before they become bottlenecks, shaping both technical and product priorities.
  • Work directly with marketing and growth teams to uncover unnamed bottlenecks and decide the best path: build with AI, buy, integrate, or change the workflow.
  • Own what you ship end-to-end—from discovery and MVP definition to adoption, reliability, and iteration—while automating operations to scale output without scaling headcount.

Formula is a performance marketing-driven company that builds its marketing stack in-house to drive growth. It is a profitable, 8-year-old company with a focus on direct impact, minimal bureaucracy, and no runway anxiety.

Europe Americas

  • Lead and execute core 0-to-1 initiatives in cutting-edge AI domains, from prototype to production.
  • Architect scalable solutions and drive critical milestones for rapid growth and potential spin-off.
  • High-agency builder mindset with proven domain expertise and excellent English communication.

EWOR launches cutting-edge initiatives in AI and technology, backed by serial entrepreneurs with major exits. They focus on high-growth environments with maximum ownership and an elite team, avoiding corporate red tape.

Global

  • Own the product strategy, roadmap, and core positioning for Korza.ai's ML platform and enterprise AI products.
  • Partner with enterprise client teams to translate ambiguous business challenges into scalable, multi-tenant platform features.
  • Translate complex LLM, RAG, and agentic workflows into intuitive product requirements and user journeys.

Korza builds an AI/ML platform and enterprise AI products, including a control plane for AI-first software development. The company operates in a fast-paced, high-talent-density environment serving Fortune 100–1000 clients across the US, UK, and Europe.

US

  • Own the multi-year technical strategy for Data Labs, mapping AI training trends into a roadmap for benchmarking and data pipelines.
  • Lead engineering managers, FDEs, and Staff+ ICs, building a rigorous, client-focused engineering culture.
  • Partner with research, product, and commercial teams to shape offerings and advise clients.

Invisible Technologies makes AI work through an end-to-end platform that structures data, automates workflows, and integrates human expertise. Profitable for half a decade, we hit $134M revenue and ranked #2 fastest growing AI company on the 2024 Inc. 5000.

$1,000–$2,000/mo
Global

  • Own the end-to-end product experience for agentic AI solutions, from deep-dive discovery to shipping high-impact improvements.
  • Become the Central expert in record time and turn messy complexity into a clean, simple, integrated UX across all modules.
  • Lead design reviews, propose UX optimizations, and map the full product surface area to drive higher conversion and lower dropoffs.

Central AI, backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VCs, builds agentic AI solutions for small and medium businesses globally. It operates like a startup within a corporate, offering high autonomy, low bureaucracy, and a fast-moving, agile culture.

AI Engineer

Sibill
$64,800–$86,400/yr
Italy

  • Build and ship production AI systems for the core finance workflows.
  • Own evals: metrics, test datasets, and monitoring of quality, cost, and latency.
  • Iterate end-to-end on AI products, from data pipelines to deployment.

Sibill is an AI-powered platform that unifies invoicing, payments, treasury, and accounting for SMEs and accountants in Italy. Backed by €12M from Creandum, the company serves over 5,000 businesses and 300+ firms with a team of over 130 people.

Global 7w PTO

  • Own product features end-to-end, from problem statement to production.
  • Write specs with AI agents and critically review their code in complex systems.
  • Deliver reliable features handling financial transactions and evolve AI-first development.

Social Discovery Group creates social entertainment platforms that connect people online across cultures, addressing loneliness and disconnection. The company's international remote team works from everywhere, and it earned 'Great Place to Work' recognition in 2024-2025.

$180,000–$190,000/yr
North America

  • Own the product roadmap for the Data & ML squad, focusing on predictive performance and creator-brand match quality.
  • Partner with engineering and design to turn ML capabilities into reusable product value, including Forge AI.
  • Define north star metrics, run experiments, and report results to drive retention and commercial outcomes.

#paid operates a marketplace connecting vetted creators with brands like McDonald’s, Samsung, and Disney for authentic collaborations. The company is rated #1 for customer support and managed services, and is building a team of ambitious humans to transform the creator economy.

$86,400–$151,200/yr
Europe

  • Transform an existing AI agent product into scalable, reliable infrastructure.
  • Design and operate the core agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, and multi-agent workflows.
  • Work directly with the founder to set architecture, engineering standards, and development culture.

An early-stage AI infrastructure startup transforming a working AI agent product into scalable infrastructure. As the first engineering hire, you'll work directly with the founder to shape engineering culture and standards from the ground up.

$180,000–$240,000/yr
Global

  • Design and improve AI systems for extracting structured reasoning signals from technical interviews.
  • Build LLM-powered pipelines for semantic analysis, behavioral feature extraction, and evaluation.
  • Develop scoring, calibration, and benchmarking methods grounded in measurable evidence.

APADCode is an early-stage AI startup building an AI-powered technical interview platform that evaluates how candidates reason and solve problems. The company is a small, early-stage team with a culture of high ownership, direct collaboration, and minimal bureaucracy.

$250,000–$400,000/yr
Global 4w PTO

  • Own product direction and strategy across ERP, Commerce, Analytics, and AI product lines.
  • Scale the product team from 4 to 8+ while setting hiring standards and coaching.
  • Drive AI-first product processes, MCP integrations, and cross-functional alignment with GTM.

Distru is the #1 ERP in the cannabis industry, powering inventory, manufacturing, sales, and logistics for commercial businesses with $15B in sales processed. We are growing, profitable, and take pride in our 5/5 Glassdoor culture with teammates on 4 continents.

Europe

  • Lead zero-to-one initiatives from concept to market validation and scaled delivery.
  • Build with AI as a daily lever for discovery, prototypes, and experimentation.
  • Own the business case, defend concepts to senior stakeholders, and raise product craft.

OLX builds marketplace ecosystems for buying and selling cars, homes, jobs, and secondhand goods. Backed by Prosus, it operates across 50+ nationalities and 7 markets with an ambitious, fast-moving culture.

$160,000–$230,000/yr
US

  • Identify complex operational challenges and define success criteria for AI solutions.
  • Prototype with real-world data and AI tools, then partner with engineering to scale.
  • Build decision engines, measurement frameworks, and closed-loop attribution systems.

They are an AI-focused organization transforming marketing services with a proprietary AI platform. They are a small, collaborative team where individual contributions directly shape product outcomes.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Define and maintain a 12-18 month product strategy for GitLab's AI Software Factory, driving adoption and growth.
  • Own the adoption journey from discovery to activation, retention, and expansion, removing friction for users and buyers.
  • Use product analytics, customer feedback, and experiments to measure impact and refine the product-led growth approach.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations ship better, more secure software faster. Trusted by over 50 million users and more than half of the Fortune 100, GitLab has a high-performance, AI-driven culture focused on collaboration and continuous learning.

UK

  • Lead AI strategy and product roadmap, turning opportunities into trusted AI products.
  • Manage AI suppliers and delivery partners, ensuring secure and responsible adoption.
  • Collaborate with UK and France IT teams, set standards, and measure AI value.

EDF Power Solutions is a renewable energy company shaping an Electric UK and Ireland. The diverse, fast-growing team works across wind, solar, battery storage, and green hydrogen, aiming to deliver 10GW of low-carbon energy by 2035.

US

  • Embed with business and clinical teams to learn workflows and identify where AI can reduce manual work.
  • Ship production-quality AI tools that turn six-to-eight-hour tasks into under thirty minutes, using telemetry and privacy-by-design.
  • Drive adoption until teams run the tools independently, then turn learnings into reusable building blocks.

Rula is a mental health care company making mental healthcare work for everyone through evidence-based, compassionate care. It is remote-first, inclusive, and hires across most U.S. states.

$175,000–$275,000/yr
US

  • Build and ship internal AI agents that can contribute code and complete workflows end to end.
  • Own context architecture by defining sources of truth and keeping documentation aligned.
  • Design integrations and MCP services for agents to work with internal tools.

The company builds AI agents and infrastructure to change how work gets done across the organization. It is a growing company with a collaborative and innovative culture.

$153,935–$213,000/yr
US

  • Map manual workflows across a business function and identify the highest-impact steps to automate.
  • Build and ship AI-powered automation with engineering, measuring success through signed-off cycle time metrics.
  • Own scope, rollout, and handoff of automated workloads, making kill calls when metrics don't move.

Engine is the AI-native platform for intelligent travel, providing the proprietary technology and supply behind modern business travel. It serves over 40,000 customers and nearly 2 million travelers, with a culture of ambition and innovation recognized as one of Built In's Best Places to Work.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Build the component layer around our layout synthesis engine, including API contracts, services, and evaluation gates.
  • Turn model retraining into a one-command job with built-in benchmarks and readable results for the whole team.
  • Own latency and cost budgets for learned capabilities and partner with infrastructure engineers on MLOps and deployment.

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built using spatial AI and generative floor plan technology. The company is fully remote, has raised over $175M, and values flexibility, collaboration, and asynchronous deep work.

Global

  • Own product strategy and roadmap for AI Labs, targeting $20-50M in new AI-native topline over 2-3 years.
  • Scale BizDraft post-launch and drive Ordinum and BizPulse through to go/no-go for launch.
  • Partner with the go-to-market team on positioning, GTM planning, and launch execution for each product.

airSlate is a global SaaS technology company that develops no-code workflow automation, electronic signature, and document management solutions. With over 100 million users and teammates in more than 20 countries, airSlate fosters a culture of growth and innovation.