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🤝 This is us, using AI to (truly) disrupt an entire industry

Co-founded by two Stanford / Wharton alums, FounderNest is a SaaS company in stealth mode that uses AI to help innovative corporations (Innovation, CVC, and Corp Dev / M&A teams) identify their next partnership, investment, or acquisition target - before their competition. Our core technology is built on real-time analytics running on private and public company data. This fuels our Natural Language Processing AI with +60M companies and +1.2B aggregated data points, allowing us to minimize noise and find 1.5-5x more companies relative to alternatives.

We are proud to count amongst our clients some of the largest corporations across a wide range of industries worldwide — for example, 4 of the Top 10 Pharma companies worldwide, one of the largest management consulting firms, one of the largest biotech companies, and one of the largest food & beverage companies in the world.

This is the perfect time to join us! We are exceeding our quarterly revenue targets consistently (🔼 2x growth QoQ). By joining FounderNest at this time, you will have the opportunity to see the impact of your work on a daily basis while you grow your career in parallel to the company’s growth.

👩🏼‍🎨 What you will do

• You'll decide how our Engineering team and any of its sub-teams are organized and how they will operate, helping establish their objectives, and measuring their performance. You'll find and remove any bottlenecks impeding these teams.
• You'll be working at a product-driven company, designing and implementing lean product-building processes that will allow us to iterate quickly and efficiently.
• You'll be a key contributor to our Engineering culture and will constantly push to increase the quality level at which we operate.
• You'll ensure the Engineering team is comfortable and each person has the tools they need to thrive and grow at FounderNest. You'll help define and evolve our 1on1 processes to keep the team happy and productive.
• You'll be leading our Engineering hiring efforts, by setting hiring guidelines, sourcing and interviewing top candidates, and hiring and retaining them as we scale 2x-3x over the next 12 months.
• We know that excellent talent attracts excellent talent. We'd love for you to help bring on board the very best people you've most enjoyed working with.
• You won't be afraid to roll up your sleeves and dive into our codebase to find new tools, processes, and technologies that will make us move faster or more robustly.
• You'll help us build a referential technical brand and will help put FounderNest's Engineering on the map.
• You'll grow quickly with the company. We want you to grow into a VP of Engineering.

🥚 In 1 month

You'll have completed the onboarding and will already know everybody on the team. You will understand most of the concepts in the industry and will have helped detect some processes that can be improved. You'll have started proposing new metrics to track the Engineering team.

🐥 In 3 months

You'll already have earned the trust of the whole Engineering team and all the people that work with you. You may be running your first processes as a hiring manager. You'll have started implementing improvements to existing processes. You'll have shown your technical knowledge by unblocking a team member with a code/infrastructure problem.

🦅 In 6 months

You'll already be a reference within FounderNest helping all the team members within your team and beyond thrive. You'll have already implemented a few new processes E2E to make us more efficient. You'll be a key owner of the Engineering team metrics, which you'll use every day to make decisions and propose changes. You'll be constantly looking for ways to create exponential value for FounderNest while keeping the Engineering focused on impact and outcome.

🎯 What you will bring

Ideally, we are looking for someone that meets the following requirements:

• You've led fast-paced Engineering teams in similar startup roles. 3-5 years of experience in the management track is ideal.
• You know how to attract, retain and grow the best talent. You've hired A+ engineers in previous companies and helped them reach their full potential.
• You've experienced, whether as a manager or an engineer, a fast growth phase in a startup. You've seen the hurdles of a fast-scaling team and learned how to avoid them.
• You live and breathe what being outcome-driven is all about. Namely, you 1) seek to understand the connection between your work and the team and company goals to be impacted by it (i.e. the why), and 2) enjoy having ownership and accountability over the outcome of your work (i.e. you love evaluating the impact of it in a data-informed way and contributing to deciding what next steps to take based on this evaluation.)
• We're looking for Zinedine Zidane: a great engineer who understands the technology and processes, that has then become a great manager of future stars.
• You have worked closely with Product leadership to build the Product vision and make it real.
• You have experience building and working with empowered Product teams.
• You have outstanding communication and presentation skills, especially around complex data-driven topics.
• You can comfortably lead meetings and deliver presentations in English.

🏆 Bonus Points

• You have experience running remote teams across geographies and even cultures.
• You have experience building end-to-end features and products, from the frontend part to the infrastructure end with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, React, Node, etc
• You know and have used Business Intelligence tools, such as Metabase.

⌛️We are committed to you

🚀 Personal & professional growth

• You will be a key part of a lean team that will support your growth, within a safe environment. You will be supported to experiment and become a reference for FounderNest’s Engineering efforts.

• You will have direct exposure to Silicon Valley, which includes some of the best investors and professionals in the world. We proudly count on many of them as our own investors and advisors.
• Elevate your skills as we tackle our most impactful challenges: We've achieved more than teams 15x our size in less time — and there's so much more to do and learn.
• Exponential growth: We humbly say that 6 months at FounderNest may be equivalent to 2 years at any other company in terms of your growth. This is thanks to the pace at which we operate, the state-of-the-art practices and processes that drive our company, and the unparalleled caliber of the people you will get to work with. You'll join at the perfect time to shape how we grow from here.

🏢 Working environment

• We pride ourselves on having built an open, humble, diverse, supportive, and truly unique culture. If you share our values (they are codified in our framework called CALIBER: Customer Excellence, Agility, Learning, Innovation, Balance, Ethics, Respect) and our passion for technology, you will find a home at FounderNest.
• You will be part of a team committed to disrupting an industry while having fun in the process!
• We have built a thriving environment based on cooperation and constructive feedback ♻️, with smart, ambitious, and hard-working individuals who dream about making an impact in the world.
• You will have a flexible schedule ⏳ since we want you to have the freedom to organize your time towards achieving our ambitious goals.
• Though we work remotely from all over the world 🌎, we love spending time together so we also organize recurrent in-person activities, events, and off-sites.
• Unlimited vacation policy 🏄🏼‍♂️, as long as you coordinate with your team and you meet our goals.
• 90/10 policy: each team member can devote 10% of their time (usually a Friday every other week) to innovate and grow professionally 📚.
• Birthday policy 🎂: We’ll celebrate your day, showing appreciation with a gift.
• 🖐🏾 We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics ⚖️.

💰 Compensation & Perks

• You will have a full-time contract (i.e. no freelance work).
• We will offer you a very competitive salary based on your past experience and future potential, including a variable component baked into it. We also want you to have stock options since we want you to grow as the company grows and to celebrate FounderNest’s success at all levels.
• Equipment 💻 : all you need to kill it at work. Just request it and we’ll do our best.

👫 Hiring process

• After you apply, we will review your submission and decide whether we invite you to a quick intro call with Miguel, our Co-Founder & COO/CPO and Hiring Manager for this role.
• If we decide to invite you and this initial call goes well, we will then invite you to start a 3-4 step fast interview process that we promise will be exciting — you will get to meet some of the leaders at the company you will get to work with, and you will get a great flavor of what working at FounderNest looks like 🙂.