Tech and AI Lead

Job description

👋 Hey, we're Founders Factory Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Headquartered in London, Founders Factory backs visionary founders with capital, dedicated support from a team of 60+ operators, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry leading corporate partners. Since 2015, our 400 portfolio companies have raised $1.03bn follow-on funding from leading investors in four continents. 🔍 Who are we looking for? We’re looking for a technical lead to build with and support our portfolio of startups with a mix of hands-on execution and strategy. You’ll collaborate with a diverse portfolio of ambitious early-stage founders - this is an opportunity to work across various domains, technologies, and products with a particular focus on helping ventures identify and capture the advantage that modern AI tooling now makes possible, without losing sight of the fundamentals of building resilient, scalable technology. In our venture studio, you will have the unique opportunity to help define, and build new ventures from scratch, in sectors ranging from finance to healthcare, with the support and backing of the largest corporate partners in the world. Our vision is to build a body of knowledge that will become the global blueprint for how to build the leading technology businesses of the future. We are looking for someone who shares that ambition and has the passion and expertise to achieve it. 💪 Your responsibilities As a Tech and AI Lead, you will work across both our Studio and Accelerator as a technical expert, turning new ideas into tangible outcomes and helping founders build AI capability into the core of their products and operations - not as a bolt-on feature. To be successful in this role, you should have previous experience leading teams to build secure, resilient and scalable tech and data science solutions. Building new ventures from scratch We expect that you will be working across several Studio businesses at all times, around 1-2 days/week of support for each. Set the technical direction and provide technical expertise to help shape a big vision for each venture by leading the development and implementation of new ventures and products You will work with cross-functional teams for each studio venture and act as the key technical stakeholder. Alongside the team, you wil…