Applied AI Lead (Enterprise)

Head of Applied AI

Location: On-site, San Francisco, CA

Compensation: Up to $450,000 + meaningful equity

Industry: Applied AI / Enterprise SaaS

Who You’ll Join:

Join an early-stage AI company building the AI operating system for your company, a centralized reasoning engine that understands, learns, and acts across an entire organization.

You’ll be one of the first senior leaders in a 3-person founding team, backed by $9M in seed funding, with strong early traction ($1.3M ARR in 16 weeks and an active Fortune 500 pipeline). Investors include Long Journey Ventures and Axiom Ventures.

This is not an R&D project or internal tooling role. You’ll be building applied AI systems already used by high-growth startups and large enterprises for real, high-stakes decisions.

What You’ll Do:

* Define the strategy and roadmap for Applied AI across product and customers.

* Build and lead a high-performing team of AI engineers and applied ML practitioners from the ground up.

* Own the development and deployment of the AI operating system for enterprise clients, from prototype to production.

* Take responsibility for reliability, evaluation, monitoring, and failure modes of enterprise AI systems.

* Work directly with the CEO and founding team to shape core architecture and long-term technical direction.

* Design and ship agentic systems that reason across tools, take action, and improve with organizational context.

Who You Are:

* 5+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years building applied AI or ML systems.

* You have personally shipped AI products used by paying customers, not just demos or experiments.

* Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and production deployment.

* Comfortable as a hands-on leader. You can architect systems, write code, and hire the right team around you.

* You thrive in early-stage environments with ambiguity, speed, and high ownership.

* Bonus experience with enterprise SaaS, data platforms, CRMs, analytics, or deeply integrated internal tools.

Why You’ll Thrive:

* Build the entire Applied AI function from scratch at a company positioning itself as the AI OS for work.

* Report directly to the CEO and have real influence over product, architecture, and company direction.

* Join at a true inflection point with strong revenue, enterprise demand, and a Series A on the horizon.

* Work on agentic AI that runs real workflows end-to-end across CRMs, analytics, finance, and internal apps.

* Operate in a small, senior team where your decisions materially shape the company’s trajectory.

* Enjoy a strong San Francisco culture, free food and transport, significant equity, and a dog-friendly office.

Work authorization: At this time, we’re only able to consider candidates authorized to work in the US (US citizens, Green Card holders, or TN visa holders).