By the way, you can now see the latest survey results on “Cosign” - and we’re adding new poll questions every day. See who’s getting cosigned here.
Lots of interesting moves lately in tech / AI! Here’s a quick list:
Kaitlyn Ladewig just joined Harvey as its first-ever Global Events hire (prev NVIDIA)
Jennifer Hyman is joining Babylist as the new CEO this Sep, succeeding the founder Natalie Gordon. (Previously Jennifer co-founded and led Rent the Runway as CEO for nearly two decades, taking the company public in 2021, and stepping down as CEO in May 2026.)
Sonia Joseph just left Meta to co-found a stealth physical AI lab
Oliver Groth just left Google DeepMind after 5 years, for a stealth robotics/physical AI role
Dean Ball just joined OpenAI as Head of Strategic Futures (prev White House policy advisor)
Jared Palmer just joined Cognition as VP Engineering (prev VP of Eng at Xbox, VP of AI at Vercel)
Mingyuan Wu just joined Google to work on multi-agent post-training (prev Meta, Adobe, PhD)
Manfred Zabarauskas is joining LinkedIn to lead Search & Conversational AI (after almost a decade at IG & Google)
Rayan Dabbagh just left AWS to start a company; currently in a16z speedrun
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Get on the ground floor with the founding team of a pre-seed or seed-stage startup.
Lada Nuzhna (prev Stanford, Thiel Fellow) is building General Control - a biotech startup engineering epigenetic medicines for the complexity of age-related diseases. She’s hiring a Scientific Chief of Staff in SF. The role mixes technical & operational work and is designed for someone who is thinking about starting a company in the next ~3 years, and wants to use this role to see how startups actually run. Apply here!
Jonathan Jacobi just came out of stealth with a $71M seed for Enigma on a mission to build the intelligence that lets robots do anything - and the interface to let humans and robots interact intuitively. Email the team if you’re interested in getting involved!
Zach Ferraro is hiring a Social Media Manager for favorited in Santa Monica, CA. This is a highly strategic and executional role - owning how favorited shows up across all social platforms while driving growth, engagement, and cultural relevance. Apply here!
Minseok Bae dropped out of Stanford’s CS program and raised an $8M seed for Cheiron to build an AI-native operating system for drug development. He’s hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer in Los Altos, CA to design and build the interfaces that let users trust AI agents and put them to work in real tasks. Apply here!
Scott Hickle just raised $10M for Throne Science to advance the team’s vision of building a smoke detector for colon cancer. He’s hiring an AI / ML Engineer in Austin, TX to own model performance across computer vision, video, audio, and next-generation sensing systems. Apply here!
Sunita Mohanty (prev Stanford GSB, Meta) has raised $9M for Ultralight on a mission to build the future of personalized medicine. She’s hiring a Head of Engineering to work closely with her on technical direction - and scale the team and operating system of the engineering org. Email Sunita if you’re interested!
Sami Akkawi just raised a $5.2M seed for Petra Labs to help enterprise brands measure and optimize their visibility across AI search results. He’s hiring a founding Growth & Marketing Lead in NYC to build the GTM engine from the ground up - generate qualified enterprise leads, create content that educates a market that barely knows this category exists, and run experiments across channels to find what converts. Apply here!
Jonas Knecht just raised an $11.6M seed for Knit Health to build clinical-intelligence AI trained on real-world doctor decision-making. He’s hiring a Chief of Staff in SF to help keep the company's most important work moving, driving high-priority initiatives that cut across product, science, operations, and partnerships. Apply here!
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Accelerate the growth of a Series A, B, or C startup with early momentum.
Rohit Padmakumar is hiring a Growth Marketing Manager in SF at Gamma. Looking for someone who can own top-of-funnel growth. This includes driving user acquisition across SEO, content, and new formats; analyzing data & insights to design rigorous experiments; and managing performance marketing across paid and partner on testing. Apply here!
Neil Parikh (prev co-founder of Casper) is hiring a Chief of Staff, GTM to work directly with him at Slingshot AI. You’ll be his strategic partner and force multiplier on the commercial motion, owning it end-to-end. Apply here!
Burkay Gur is hiring a Head of Data Center Operations for fal in SF for up to $350K. You’ll own the full DC operations lifecycle, set infrastructure operations strategy, run ops through the on-site team, and more. Apply here!
Jean-Denis Greze is hiring a Founding Technical Recruiter in SF for Town - where he’s building a powerful AI assistant that makes it easy for anyone to create and use software in their everyday work. You’ll own how Town finds, engages, and closes the engineers who will define the company. Apply here!
Lainie Yallen just raised a $200M Series B for Simile with a mission to simulate every decision at scale. She’s hiring a Product Engineer for up to $400K to build the platform that harnesses Simile’s core foundation model. Apply here!
Ben Schaechter is hiring a Founding Product Marketing Manager for finops startup, Vantage. This is a high-impact, highly-visible role at a company that ships fast and frequently while continually delivering innovative, customer-driven features and capabilities. Apply here!
Roi Tiger (prev VP of Eng at Facebook) just came out of stealth with a $180M Series A for Glow - on a mission to transform how enterprises proactively protect the modern endpoint with an agentic-first approach. He’s hiring a Senior AI Engineer in Tel Aviv to own the intelligent decision-making pipelines that turn complex workspace telemetry into autonomous security actions. Apply here!
Ethan (Yuanming) Hu (prev MIT PhD) just raised a ~$400M Series B for Meshy to turn text and image prompts into production-ready 3D models. He’s hiring a Senior Growth Marketer to expand Meshy’s brand presence, drive sales growth, and deepen their market penetration in the gaming and 3D industries. Apply here!
Nadav Grossinger (prev Meta, Stanford GSB) just raised a $21M Series A for Elio to build AI-native sensors that let AI decide what to capture in real time instead of shooting a fixed image. He’s hiring a Lead Software Engineer to help build out their sensing platform. Apply here!
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Join a growth-stage startup scaling to its next horizon.
Atoms is hiring a Communications Director in SF to own the portfolio-wide comms layer across Atoms' Food, Mining, and Transport businesses, and to build the calendar and relationships that bring a coherent public narrative to a company operating in four very different industries at once (food, mining, transport, robotics). Apply here!
EliseAI is hiring a Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance to scale their risk and compliance programs. You’ll be instrumental in leading and scaling the GRC team to meet regulatory and IT audit readiness, manage third-party risk, and ensure our policies and processes align with industry standards. Apply here!
Radiant is hiring a Media Relations Director to own their external media presence - from podcast bookings and journalist relationships to investor amplification and executive communications. They’re also hiring a Social & Content Manager to own Radiant's day-to-day content production across social media, presentations, and visual assets. You'll write and post social content for the company and executives, build slides and decks and graphics. Apply here!
OpenAI is hiring a senior GTM Strategy & Operations professional to build and scale the operating system for OpenAI's Professional Services business. This is a foundational, hands-on individual contributor role at the intersection of business strategy, finance, GTM, and delivery. Apply here!
Flock Safety is hiring an Android Framework Engineer (remote) to engineer core system services, optimize device hardware abstractions, and build the custom Android framework powering their long-term field deployments. Apply here!
By the way, you can now see last week’s survey results on “Cosign” - and we’re adding new poll questions every day. See who’s getting cosigned here.
Our a16z team is hosting an invite-only event for growth leaders in SF on Wednesday, August 19th! We have a stacked speaker lineup - including Steijn Pelle from Lassie, Ravish Agrawal from Gamma, Nick Rudder from Sphere, Shub Gaur from Cursor, and Kathryn Dean from HappyRobot. Spots are limited - looking for top growth operators in performance, marketing, organic, PLG, SLG, and more, who are thinking about what's next. Apply to join here!
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