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Former Founder

Former founder role where you define your own function at an agentic AI startup for real estate and infrastructure. Requires prior founding experience and comfort operating without a defined playbook.

Up to 1
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About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define and own a function, relationship, or capability that hasn't been fully articulated yet
  • Work directly with AI systems and evaluate what good looks like
  • Write the playbook when one doesn't exist
  • Move fast, communicate clearly, and operate without needing direction
  • Execute rather than advise; make decisions with incomplete information and own the outcomes
  • Maintain high quality standards and refuse to ship below the bar

Requirements

  • Founded or co-founded something with traction
  • Extremely unconventional background that led to startups
  • Technical enough to work directly with AI systems
  • Thrive when the playbook doesn't exist
  • Move fast, communicate clearly, and don't need to be told what to do next
  • Genuinely curious about the built world
  • Strong opinions about quality
  • Love for the built world that goes beyond the company

Nice-to-Haves

  • Operated at the intersection of AI, real estate, infrastructure, or complex enterprise services

Skills

Ai SystemsReal EstateInfrastructureEnterprise ServicesStartups

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