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  • Contribute to the research agenda for enterprise AI economics, addressing investment prioritization, budgeting, and value realization.
  • Advise CIOs and CFOs on AI portfolio decisions, including build or buy choices, funding, and scaling.
  • Produce syndicated and custom research, brief clients, and represent IDC in executive discussions and industry events.

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  • Define the AI Investing proposition, product roadmap and business model.
  • Build AI-native experiences across investment discovery, research, portfolio management and decision-making.
  • Develop how AI should analyse information, surface opportunities and support users throughout the investment journey.

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform that makes insurance accessible online in Southeast Asia. They have a global team of over 20 nationalities and are expanding into spending, saving, investing, and more.

$275,000–$320,000/yr
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  • Own member growth and hit enrollment targets across Maven's core business as the cross-functional control tower.
  • Build and scale the enrollment engine from eligible population to activated member across launches and acquisition.
  • Lead central operations, strategy & ops, and AI enablement to raise analytical rigor and operational discipline.

Maven Clinic is the world's largest virtual clinic for women and families, offering end-to-end healthcare programs through employer and health plan partnerships. Founded in 2014, it has raised $425M and earned numerous awards for its innovative, mission-driven culture.

Global

  • Work directly with the founder on launching new companies and driving workstreams for existing ones.
  • Own delegated projects across go-to-market, operations, finance, and hiring.
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We are an investment firm and company builder that incubates companies from scratch and invests in technology startups. We run our firm like a product with a very small team that leverages AI agents and automated workflows.

$100,000–$120,000/yr
United States Canada 4w PTO

  • Build and operate AI-driven finance workflows for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Own the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and financial model, enabling fast scenario analysis.
  • Deliver monthly reporting packages, own SaaS metrics, and partner with teams across the business.

Unbounce is a marketing technology company that helps businesses create landing pages and optimize conversions. They foster an AI-first culture with a focus on automation, inclusion, and individual growth, with a small but dedicated team.

US Unlimited PTO 20w maternity 20w paternity

  • Define Marqeta's Enterprise AI & automation strategy, including governance frameworks and adoption roadmap.
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Marqeta is a card issuing platform that enables companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. It is one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, with a flexible remote-first culture and a focus on innovation.

Global

  • Define the AI Stockbroking proposition, product roadmap and business model.
  • Build AI-native experiences across stock discovery, research, trading, portfolio management and market information.
  • Own P&L, funded accounts, assets, trading activity, revenue and unit economics.

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform that enables insurance to be accessible online, and is the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia. The company has teams working around the world with over 20 nationalities, fostering a culture of passion and innovation.

Latin America

  • Drive AI strategy for retail and consumer brands, leading client relationships and program execution.
  • Scope business cases, specifications, and deliver measurable outcomes through AI-enabled systems.
  • Act as the primary point of contact, directing specialists and ensuring adoption of built solutions.

WON redesigns business operations and customer experiences for retail, travel, hospitality, financial services, and private equity clients. The firm is built around senior practitioners who work directly with clients, with an emphasis on AI leverage and accountability for results.

US

  • Design agentic AI solutions for enterprise customers by running process discovery workshops and mapping current state.
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QAD | Redzone provides an intelligent, adaptive platform connecting manufacturing and supply-chain people, processes, and data. The company fosters a collaborative, entrepreneurial culture that values contributions and provides growth opportunities.

US

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Healthcare.com is a healthcare technology company building smarter ways to connect people with coverage, care, and solutions. We are curious, collaborative, and always looking for better ways to solve problems and make an impact.

US

  • Lead the forward-deployed AI delivery pod, owning outcomes, roadmap, and team performance.
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EBSCO Information Services delivers a fully optimized research experience, supporting the information needs of end-users through a powerful discovery platform. Headquartered in Ipswich, MA, the company employs more than 2,700 people worldwide, most embracing hybrid or remote work models, and thrives on innovation and forward-thinking strategies.

Global

  • Own Toptal's AI product strategy, deciding where agents and models belong across the marketplace and internal systems.
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Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members around the globe, Toptal is the world's largest fully remote workforce, fostering innovation and fun.

$150,000–$185,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Own company-wide AI adoption end to end, including awareness, training, activation, and measured business value.
  • Run the AI Center of Excellence operating cadence, including champions network, office hours, and the adoption scoreboard.
  • Recruit, coach, and support at least one champion in every department, and run cross-functional AI pods to ship measured results.

Arkestro provides a predictive procurement platform that uses AI, game theory, and behavioral science to optimize enterprise negotiations. It is a hyper-growth company that values ownership and comfort with complexity.

US

  • Lead AI transformation and technology strategy across the portfolio of software companies.
  • Oversee engineering teams, driving AI-first development practices and standards.
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Solen Software Group is an evergreen holding company that acquires and operates software businesses with growth potential in various vertical markets, including HR technology and fleet telematics. The company is backed by investors with experience building software businesses of significant scale, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

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  • Own team utilization, capacity planning, and billability, maintaining the resource model and automating routine reporting.
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Omniscient is an organic growth agency that builds revenue-focused organic growth systems for B2B software companies. They are a lean, agile, and experimental 30-person bootstrapped, profitable team that thrives on R&D and innovation.

Canada

  • Build and manage an investment fund focused on resilience to AI-driven disruption, political instability, and structural economic changes.
  • Develop the fund's long-term investment thesis, lead fundraising, and execute investments across multiple asset classes.
  • Cultivate strong relationships with limited partners, co-investors, and senior leadership to shape a 20-year investment horizon.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform that connects top candidates with hiring companies. The company uses technology to streamline the hiring process, ensuring objective and efficient candidate evaluation.

$336,000–$400,000/yr
US

  • Lead the AI Platform team to build the technical rails for AI-native operations, including LLM gateway, agent framework, and evaluation infrastructure.
  • Drive the Velocity program to achieve true autonomy by optimizing product delivery cycle time with AI-written code and coverage gates.
  • Grow the platform org through a Director and principal engineers, holding the line on a single shared platform across all domains.

Engine is the all-in-one travel and spend management platform trusted by 38K+ businesses and 1.8M+ travelers. With 1,000+ employees, we are one of the fastest-growing companies in travel tech, recognized as a Best Place to Work and a leader in AI innovation.

EMEA

  • Act as Finance Business Partner to commercial, operations, and product teams, building financial simulation models for growth decisions.
  • Model and present ROI and TCO of infrastructure deployments directly to clients, supporting the commercial team throughout the sales cycle.
  • Own monthly financial reporting, profitability analysis by site/unit, budgeting, forecasting, and preparation of materials for governance bodies.

They build a sovereign, energy-efficient AI compute platform with modular data centers and distributed orchestration software. The company is fast-growing and controls the full value chain end-to-end, with a culture that values autonomy, analytical rigor, and client-facing communication.

Global

  • Lead enterprise customers from discovery through pilot and production rollout, translating AI initiatives into clear scopes and measurable outcomes.
  • Define success metrics, integration plans, and coordinate deployments across engineering and customer stakeholders.
  • Manage risks, remove blockers, and drive adoption of deployed AI agents in real production environments.

DehazeLabs is the AI operating system for enterprises, helping them close the gap between what AI enables and how they operate today. They are a team of high-agency builders from top tech companies, solving problems for the world's biggest enterprises.

US 4w PTO

  • Own the AI platform strategy, architecture, and operations for enterprise-wide AI capabilities.
  • Build reusable components, connectors, and deployment pipelines for AI agents and automations.
  • Establish governance, security, and reliability practices for AI in a regulated healthcare environment.

Matter Health delivers primary and preventive healthcare directly to older adults living in public housing communities. The company is rapidly expanding and fosters a mission-driven, people-centered culture.

$124,900–$205,500/yr
US

  • Own the accuracy, automation, and visual presentation of GTM-facing financial dashboards and reporting.
  • Provide direct decision support to GTM leadership by translating financial data into actionable insights.
  • Partner with the Senior Director, FP&A to improve financial models and track revenue retention metrics.

Morning Consult is a global decision intelligence company that helps modern leaders make smarter, faster, better decisions by pairing high-frequency data with applied AI. The company has three office locations and a remote-friendly culture.