TL;DR:
- Rare, high ownership opportunity to become the first business hire at a seed-stage Generative AI startup.
- Perfect for anyone who wants to be a founder or transition to leadership roles in tech / startups.
- Involves working directly with the Founder/CEO and have influence on implementing strategically important cross-functional initiatives across GTM and operations.
The Role:
Fulcrum is seeking a driven and dynamic generalist to become our first business hire. You'll be in the heart of the action, working directly with the Founders on supporting and enhancing our operations while helping to shape our growth and success.
If you have aspirations of becoming a founder or a senior executive in tech, this role provides the perfect grounding.
Responsibilities:
Work with the founders on the following:
- Driving strategic initiatives: Drive implementation across diverse initiatives (e.g., in GTM, hiring, product marketing).
- Managing core customer relationships: Cultivate and handle relationships with core customers, managing expectations and driving further penetration.
- Helping with product releases, feedback and POCs: Oversee and coordinate new product releases, proof of concepts (POCs), ensuring projects are delivered on time and to specification.
- Lead cross-functional “run the business” operations: Run finance, data operations, and other functions that form the backbone of the company.
- Investor relations: Articulate key updates to investors
About You:
- Master juggler: You enjoy juggling several threads and are an expert at not letting things fall through the cracks easily.
- Operational juggernaut: You live and breath efficiency, and a get-shit-done attitude.
- Exceptional in customer management: You thrive at managing client expectations and driving execution.
- Product mindset: You have a strong product mindset, can put yourselves in the shoes of a user and critically think through UX to ensure releases are well rounded.
- Strong communication skills: You have structured, concise writing skills whether it be in communication with customers or in create detailed, comprehensible documents.
- Bias for action: You take pride in working extremely hard, pushing progress at peak velocity as opposed to getting stuck in analysis paralysis.
Prior Experience:
You have 2+ years of relevant experience, Examples:
- Management consultant at a top firm
- Swiss-army knife / operations lead at a fast-growth startup,
- Forward deployed engineer at an operationally intensive startup like Palantir or Instabase.
Technical background is a plus.
Our ideal candidate can thrive independently with limited oversight and adapt quickly. Startups are fast-moving environments where you need to be adaptable and no job is too small. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love variety in your work, and are excited about having a significant impact on a growing company, this opportunity is for you.