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Product Builder-Principal

AI Fund
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Mountain View, CA$230k - $275kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Principal role at AI Fund (venture studio) focused on identifying and shaping deep-tech AI business bets, driving co-founders, and guiding 12-week Build programs with partners and elite founders.

Responsibilities

  • Work with commercial partners, including corporates, VCs, and LPs, and with elite founders to identify, shape, and validate new company ideas.
  • Build the business case for ideas that hold up: market sizing, business model, go-to-market plan, and a clear written thesis for the company.
  • Decide which ideas to bet on, based on the size of the market opportunity and how uniquely AI can solve it.
  • Help recruit the founder. Explain the idea to potential founders and Engineers in Residence, and help bring the right person on to lead the Build.
  • Drive AI Fund's co-founding of companies with partners and founders, mainly through product, user, and go-to-market guidance during the 12-week Build.
  • Build the recommendation on whether AI Fund should invest at the end of the Build, then support the AI Fund partner on follow-on investment and portfolio support.

Qualifications

  • Technical ability, a real understanding of frontier AI, and hands-on experience coding with AI.
  • Experience as an engineer, product manager, or founder, including scrappy 0-to-1 work.
  • A track record of working with top talent, such as elite founders and senior executives, where both sides earn each other's respect and you make efficient use of their time.
  • The ability to communicate with rigor, persuade through influence, and carry strong opinions with maturity.
  • A STEM or research degree from a top research university, or an equivalent background where you've built the same rigor.

Skills

Required:Technical ability and frontier AI understandingExperience as engineer/product manager/founderStakeholder communication and influence

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives, including carried interest and virtual shares in AI Fund.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About AI Fund

Co-founding companies together from idea to impact

AI Fund is a venture studio. We collaborate with entrepreneurs, venture funds, and corporate partners to create great companies that move humanity forward.

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