
Ankar · London
The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value i...
The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today,
90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in
manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting
are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.
Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re
building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into
clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI.
Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.
Vorys
getting started.
What you’ll be doing
As one of our Founding AEs, you’ll work closely with our Head of Sales and co-founders to drive new business and expand our
customer base. You’ll manage the full sales cycle with enterprise and mid-market accounts, helping the world’s most innovative
organizations adopt our AI platform to accelerate their IP and R&D work.
and improvement.
initiatives.
This role is for an energetic, curious, scrappy and hungry operator - with exceptional communication and problem-solving skills -
who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. We see this role as a continuous escalator towards taking more responsibility at
Ankar.
What we are looking for
persistent in moving deals forward.
firms, patent attorneys or in-house IP professionals.
Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best
R&D teams create and protect ideas.
ideas come from clarity and rigour.
the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last.
the bar. Every challenge sharpens us.
This role is not for you if...
travel. We operate with high autonomy and ownership, expect our team to go above and beyond, be obsessed with our mission and
thrive in ambiguity rather than wait for direction.
and new information.
creating exceptional products.
right answer than defending a particular one.
What we put behind our people
Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly.
matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from.
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