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New roles at a16z, Temporal, and Thatch - plus early-stage founding teams

Source: https://a16zjobs.substack.com/p/new-roles-at-a16z-temporal-and-thatch Get on the ground floor with the founding team of a pre-seed or seed-stage startup.

• Rayan KrishnanandLangston Nasholdare growing the founding team atVals AI, which evaluates and benchmarks the world’s leading AI models on economically valuable tasks across finance, software, and frontier risk. They’re hiring aFounding Product ManagerandFounding Head of Partnerships, which both pay up to $200K and are based in SF with the founders.Apply here!
• Ed Li,Junyu Ren, andCat Yanare buildingBanbury Road, a new research lab betting that AI capability grows with the number of models trained together, rather than the size of any one. They’re hiring founding research engineers -DM Catif you’re interested!
• Ian Brookeis buildingAstro Mechanica, an aerospace company developing a new engine architecture and the aircraft around it. He’s hiring aLead Structures Engineerin SF for up to $220K to architect the composite and metallic structures and then stand up the structures org, staying hands-on through fabrication and flight test.Apply here!

• Michael Silveris hiring a Founding Deployment Strategist in SF atKaizen, which puts AI into the operations of $100M+ healthcare organizations. You’ll sit between customer and product, building an ROI model with a CFO one day and sitting next to an authorization specialist to find out why a case is stuck the next, then writing the deployment playbook itself.Apply here!

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Accelerate the growth of a Series A, B, or C startup with early momentum.

• Chris Ellisjustraised a $108M Series C forThatchto reorient healthcare systems around consumers, rather than employers. He’s hiring across the board, including aVideo Creativefor up to $193K (remote) to own video outright and build the function from zero.Apply here!

Chris Ellis@chrisellisdc Today, we’re announcing@thatch_airaised a $108M Series C at a 1B valuation from@thegp,@IndexVentures,@generalcatalyst,@a16z\. The idea we're betting on: healthcare serves whoever controls the dollar\. For 80 years that's been the employer\. We think it should be you\. …  4:54 PM · Sep 15, 2026·247K Views 32 Replies·46 Reposts·155 Likes- Turner Caldwellis growing the team atMariana Minerals, which builds and operates the mines and refineries behind critical minerals. Two standout roles - aHead of Creativefor up to $200K, and aSenior Technical Recruiterfor up to $175K, where you’ll help fill 70+ roles across SF, Houston, Moab, and Ann Arbor.

• Víctor PerezandDiego Rodriguezare hiring aCreative LeadforKrea(SF or remote). Krea is where designers generate and edit in real time - and you’ll help make the work that shows people what the models can do. They’re also hiring aFounding Customer Success Manager!
• Nazli Tanis buildingHilbertwithCeyda Erten, structuring consumer companies’ messy customer data so agents can predict what customers do next. They’re hiring anEnterprise Account Executivefor up to $180K to build enterprise pipeline from zero.Apply here!
• Weber Wongis buildingFLORA- a node-based canvas putting text, image, and video models in one environment. He’s hiring aCreative Generalistin NYC for between $60 to $175 an hour, working directly with the CEO across campaigns, films, and “cultural experiments.”Apply here!

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• Tarek Alaruriis buildingStuut, the AI agent that runs accounts receivable end to end for customers like Honeywell and Medtronic. They’re hiring anApplied AI Engineer, GTMfor up to $200K in NYC / SF to own the mar-tech and automation layer between Marketing, Sales, and RevOps, routing every lead by fit and intent and finding new channels that actually produce pipeline.Apply here!

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Join a growth-stage startup scaling to its next horizon.

• Deelis hiring aStorytelling Communications Manager(remote)! You’ll own DeelWorks, Deel’s future-of-work publication, and its Global Hiring Report - turning proprietary data and industry trends into thought-leadership content and building Deel’s press relationships, all while sharing breaking moments through Deel’s POV in real time.Apply here!
• Qasar Younis(prev COO of YC) runsApplied Intuition, which builds the software making vehicles and machines drive themselves. They’re hiring aWest Coast Communications Managerfor up to $190K, on-site in Sunnyvale five days a week. The JD names newsletter writers, Substack authors, and podcast hosts as relationship targets, not just traditional press.Apply here!
• Cole Rosenbergis hiring aSenior/Staff Product Manager, Spacesfor up to $266K atHarvey. Spaces is where people, context, and agents come together on a legal matter, and you’d own that experience end to end as a senior IC, simplifying the architecture and driving adoption across law firms. He wants someone who spikes on intuitive design and thrives with ambiguity.Apply here!
• Databricksis hiring aProgram Manager, Scaled User Programsfor up to $197K remote. You’d own the AMER strategy for the top-of-funnel machine that turns customer awareness into training enrollment, hardening the infrastructure so it runs on automation rather than one person.Apply here!
• Waymois hiring aSupply Operations Managerfor up to $196K, on-site in San Francisco. You’d run the SF depot floor, matching staffing and vehicle turnaround cycles against in-service targets so supply meets rider demand, and holding third-party vendors to safety and operational SLAs shift by shift. It’s physical, shift-governed depot work rather than a desk ops job, and they want 10+ years.Apply here!
• Temporalis hiring aSenior Manager of Technical Executive Communicationsto own the external voice of co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev. You’d ghostwrite their long-form, run their day-to-day social, and prep them for keynotes and podcasts, all while keeping each of them sounding like themselves rather than media-trained.Apply here!
• a16zis hiring anEvents Partner for New Mediafor up to $258K (SF preferred, NYC works too). You’d design and run everything from intimate community dinners to multi-day summits and leadership retreats, partnering directly with GPs and prominent external figures, and owning it all the way down to venue sourcing, vendor contracts, and on-site production.Apply here!

Lots of interesting moves lately in tech / AI! Here’s a quick list:

• Vikas Chandrais joiningAtomsas VP of AI, after 8 years at Meta
• Zayd Simjeeand his team are all joiningHarvey‘s Applied AI org after Harvey acquired their company, Guardrails AI
• Claudia Lauriejust joined OpenAI as a PM on the Financial Engineering team (prev co-founded Prive; built ads/offers products at Uber)
• Dave Van Veenjust joined Google DeepMind as a Research Scientist on Gemini
• Vishal Melwaniis leaving Stripe after ~4 years to join Capital One as VP on the Network Compliance team
• Irene Changis leaving HubSpot after 3.5 years and joining Procore to lead People M&A and People Solutions
• Connie Leis joining OpenAI’s finance team after ~5 years at Asana
• Patrick Balbierzis leaving Instacart after ~8 years to joinHighstockas Head of Customer Experience
• Sasha Varlamov&Aidan Cunniffe‘s startup (Git AI) just got acquired by OpenAI
• Flora G.is leaving Paradigm to join Ramp
• Jacob Grafis leaving Apple to join Brick as VP of Product and Design
• Steren Gianniniis leaving Google after 12 years to join Vercel

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