Madeleine Laitz, PhD just joined OpenAI on the compute & infrastructure strategy side (prev Engine Ventures)
Christopher Wan just joined Ivo as a forward-deployed product manager (prev Bessemer, Meta, Stanford GSB and law school)
Jennifer Bailey is retiring from Apple in October after 25+ years
Sarah Scharf is the new CMO at Vanta
Henry Williams just joined OpenAI on Dean Ball's strategic futures team
Misha Jessel Kenyon just left Mistral AI and is working on a stealth startup
Kevin Weil, prev Chief Product Officer at OpenAI, is now fundraising for his new AI science startup
Chandhu Nair is joining Target as its first-ever Chief AI Officer
Alice Obas O’Connor is joining Atomic after graduating from Stanford GSB
Marc-Antoine Simon just joined ElevenLabs after 5 years at TikTok
Marc Bourget just joined Amazon after 5+ years at Meta
Ranju Das (lululemon's Chief AI and Technology Officer) just left after less than a year
Yan Katcharovski just joined OpenAI to work on Codex
For more interesting talent moves, head here.
Get on the ground floor with the founding team of a pre-seed or seed-stage startup.
Highstock is hiring a Head of Operations / GM (to own fulfillment and 3PL relationships end-to-end), a Strategic Partner Manager (to own a portfolio of brand partners and keep them actively listing inventory on the platform), and a Growth Lead, Apparel (to recruit and manage live sellers, working directly with the CEO to drive apparel category expansion). All roles are in NYC!
Phylo Bio is hiring a Head of Talent for up to $250K in SF. You’ll be the first in-house recruiter, personally sourcing and closing candidates across business, science, and engineering while building the hiring process from scratch. Apply here!
Periodic Labs is hiring a Research Engineer, Lab Automation for up to $250K in Menlo Park, CA. You'll translate scientists' experimental goals into the hardware setups and instrument workflows that make materials-discovery experiments automateable. Apply here!
Podium Automation is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter & People Partner for up to $160K per year in NYC. You’ll run full-cycle recruiting across engineering and manufacturing, then own onboarding and people programs from offer through ramp. Apply here!
Salient is hiring an AI Deployment Lead in SF for up to $235K to own the post-sales cycle for some of their largest customers. Apply here!
Northwood Space is hiring a Lead Software Engineer for up to $260K in LA / Torrance, CA. You’ll lead the Cloud team building global antenna scheduling, booking, and network orchestration systems. Apply here!
Inferact is hiring a Founding Product Designer for up to $195K and a Head of Engineering for up to $280K - both in SF.
Astro Mechanica is hiring a Chief Engineer, Defense for up to $300K in SF. You'll be the top technical authority for their military aircraft program, owning design decisions across propulsion, avionics, and flight controls (Secret clearance required). Apply here!
favorited is hiring a Product Manager for up to $168K in Santa Monica, CA. You’ll own notifications, sharing, and core mobile flows to drive activation and retention across iOS and Android. Apply here!
Resend is hiring a Technical Account Executive for up to $220K (remote). You’ll build and close Resend’s enterprise sales motion from inbound leads, working directly with founders to define the playbook from scratch. Apply here!
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Accelerate the growth of a Series A, B, or C startup with early momentum.
Lassie is hiring a Head of Marketing for up to $240K in SF. You'll build Lassie's marketing engine from scratch - owning demand generation, cracking the message through customer insight and experimentation, and turning what works into repeatable, AI-native growth systems. Apply here!
Hilbert is hiring a Performance Marketing Lead for up to $210K in SF. You’ll own customer paid-media onboarding across Meta, Google, TikTok, and more, then build the integrations that feed Hilbert’s predictive outputs (pLTV, churn risk) back into ad platforms as conversion signals. Apply here!
Offdeal is hiring a Founding Content Lead in NYC. You’ll turn closed deals and client outcomes into case studies, videos, and stories that build trust with business owners considering a sale - owning everything from interview to final cut. Apply here!
Simile is hiring a Strategic Account Director in SF / NYC and several technical staff members.
Thais Castello Branco is hiring AI engineers who want to end AI slop. Looking for research engineers and design engineer researchers to help turn subjective, “unverifiable” domains like design and creative judgment into something models can actually be trained and measured against.
Thais Castello Branco@thaiscbranco_
seeking AI engineers who want to end AI slop. if you: - obsess over evals & harnesses - love data - want to help push frontier models - have unreasonably good taste - want AI to ~feel~ right - love design & creativity … this is for you! apply at tastelabs.com
4:19 PM · Aug 12, 2026 · 10.9K Views
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Join a growth-stage startup scaling to its next horizon.
Adam Noffsinger is hiring 2 designers on his team at OpenAI. DM him if you’re interested!
Adam Noffsinger@ANoffsinger
We're hiring 2 designers on my team at @OpenAI. If you're craft-oriented, technical, and interested in the intersection of finance/money + AI, shoot me DM.
4:32 PM · Aug 11, 2026 · 73.7K Views
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My feed has been filled lately with ElevenLabs hiring posts! The team has 300+ open roles globally. Jack McDermott is personally hiring two roles: a Growth Marketer, Consumer and a Creative Producer. Aneri is also a great resource for open roles. DM them if you’re interested, and check out all open roles here.
aneri@0xaneri
Brought the team together in Lisbon last week for a week of building, creating, and some great bites and views. Join us before our next one. We're hiring across: - Product engineering - Growth engineering - Data science - Design - Creatives/FDCs - GTM specialists - Generalists
3:41 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 17.4K Views
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Ghazi Masood (CRO at Replit) just shared a dream role that’s opened up for an Agentic Solution Engineer. Looking for a highly technical, AI-pilled operator who is customer-facing, always experimenting with new tech, and able to build technical rapport with technical and business stakeholders. If you or someone you know could be a fit, tag them in this post!
Finally, a bit of inspiration from Codie Sanchez on hiring:
Codie Sanchez@Codie_Sanchez
One of the best things we've built this year is our framework for hiring absolute killers. Here's a sneak peek from our internal doc:
10:31 PM · Aug 14, 2026 · 42.3K Views
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