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Compensation
USD 175000 - 250000
Commensurate with experience and impact (~$175k-$250k base); 100% paid healthcare; 401(k); 6 weeks PTO; 3 months paid parental leave; carry participation across companies; budget for tools, compute, office needs, and experimentation; exact carry % shared with qualified finalists.
- Salary period
- yearly
- Location basis
- unclear
Benefits
- 100% paid healthcare
- 401(k)
- 6 weeks PTO
- 3 months paid parental leave
- Budget for tools, compute, office needs, and experimentation
- Carry: participation in every company they back across every fund, for as long as you’re here (exact % shared with qualified finalists)
Tech stack
Location
Remote/Onsite/Hybrid (US)
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Remote policy
- Remote/Onsite/Hybrid (US)
- Remote scope
- country-limited
- Timezones
- Miami, San Francisco, Nashville
- Travel
- frequent in-person time
- Visa
- unclear
- Authorization
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Build the software, data, and AI systems that help the firm see earlier, decide better, act faster, and compound learning.
- Own the proprietary intelligence layer - the system that shapes how the firm sources, decides, supports, learns, and executes.
- Build the machine behind many companies rather than just one.
- Develop systems that become focal's compounding edge.
- Create a brain that compounds how decisions are made, faster. Turn raw material into systems that retrieve context, surface what matters, and sharpen conviction.
- Build systems that let 5 people do the work of 50. Workflows, agents, automations, and internal products that give a small team the coverage and speed of a much larger firm.
- Develop sourcing agents that surface founders before anyone else sees them. Aggregate signals from where technical builders leave traces, learn which signals matter, surface non-obvious founders early, explain why they're interesting, route to the right human, and learn fast.
- Build a platform that extends to their portfolio firms.
- Own focal's technical roadmap end-to-end: the data layer, AI systems, internal products, and portfolio-facing tools.
- The work spans founder discovery, signal ingestion, entity resolution, founder graph construction, knowledge retrieval, human-in-the-loop ranking, LLM evaluation, investment workflows, and products portfolio founders actually use.
- Understand how the firm makes decisions, identify where software, data, and AI can sharpen those decisions, and build systems that become part of how focal operates.
- Own architecture, roadmap, data strategy, build-vs-buy decisions, vendor choices, and technical budget.
Requirements
- Evidence of taste, systems thinking, and judgment
- Send hiring@focal.vc your LinkedIn (and X if you have it)
- Include the thing you’ve built in recent months you’re most proud of and why
Application
Send hiring@focal.vc your LinkedIn (and X if you have it) along with the thing you’ve built in recent months you’re most proud of and why.
- Email subject
- Head of Technology & AI
- Portfolio
- unclear
- GitHub
- not required
- Cover letter
- not required
- Apply flow
- Canonical URL
- https://hiring.focal.vc
Company context
See earlier, decide better, act faster, and compound what they learn across every opportunity and portfolio company.
- Product
- Building software, data, and AI systems for earlier insight, better decisions, and faster execution across opportunities and portfolio companies
- Stage
- startup
- Open source
- false
Contact
hiring@focal.vc
Description
focal leads inception rounds in exceptional technical founders. They are hiring a founding technical leader to build software, data, and AI systems. This is not an internal AI tools role; it is a founder role where the person owns the proprietary intelligence layer that shapes how they source, decide, support, learn, and execute. They want someone they would back as a technical founder, obsessed with building the machine behind many companies rather than just one. Responsibilities include carry participation, building the systems described, and being a technical founding leader (full details not explicitly listed as bullet responsibilities).
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