Fellowship - Founding Management (3-6 months) (f/m/d)

ALAIKA

We are looking for Fellows starting in April 2027 for 3 to 6 months.  Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA — a new kind of Financial Services firm — globally scaling, headquartered in Munich. The work is hard. The bar is high. Convince during your Fellowship and earn the opportunity to join ALAIKA full-time after graduation, with partner-track ambition from day one.   Stop reading if any of these describe you:  * Drive. You need someone to fire the starting gun → We only hire people who can prove they are intrinsically driven and execute.  * Ownership. You spot the problem and walk it to your boss → We fall in love with problems. Own them. Solve them. Ship solutions.  * Speed. Slow is your default → Speed compounds. Be smart and brave enough to select 80/20 in the right way.  * Mindset. "Not possible" is part of your vocabulary → We hire people who always find a way.  STILL THERE? THEN ALAIKA MIGHT BE FOR YOU.  At ALAIKA, our vision is to build the future of Financial Services with three brands under one roof — Advisory (Strategy Consulting), Capital (Private Equity), Building (Company Builder). Right now, we are in the midst of building our trojan horse ALAIKA Advisory.  The ambition: building the leading Financial-Services-specific entrepreneurial holding — Fortune 500 access, PE discipline, Silicon Valley technology-depth and thinking. Three networks that compound and multiply.  * One industry. Financial Services. Nothing else.  * One focus. The intersection of business and technology — across Strategic Transformations, AI & Data Intelligence, and Cybersecurity.  * One goal. Being the go-to partner for the world's leading Fortune 500 financial services companies — and the ones we might help build into that.  Founded in October 2022 by Johanna von Geyr (build-up and led Financial Services Practice for a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) and Harald Braunstein (serial entrepreneur with exits incl. IPO), we bring together deep functional domain expertise and networks in global Financial Services, with a proven track record in building, scaling, and investing in leading software product companies.   Curious what ALAIKA is all about? Explore our website and introduction deck.   Join the movement — apply now.  THE ROLE AND WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON  * Advise. Take on the most pressing strategic and technology challenges of the world’s leading financial services companies — across Strategy, Data & AI, and Cyber. In the room with decision-makers from day one.  * Own. Own your deliverables end-to-end. You are not support staff for the seniors.  * Learn. Build the analytical, interpersonal, and business skills that define exceptional consultants. Work alongside colleagues of all levels, receive close coaching, and learn how high-stakes advisory work is done in practice.  * Build. We are scaling, with real building left to do — IP, processes, go-to-market, strategy. You do not just deliver client work; you co-build the firm. That is not a slogan — it is your Tuesday.  WHEN YOU ARE A FIT  “Show me an athlete who did well academically. An athlete because they know what it takes to win and they have had to experience loss.”  — Kenneth C. Griffin, Founder of Citadel  You will work alongside intrinsically driven people chasing an uncapped career — people who do "what it takes". You fear "being one more number stuck in middle management".   Your goal is to make it to the top: at ALAIKA itself, at a leading investment or financial services firm, or in a company you build yourself — ALAIKA can help with that too.  * Book-smart. Strong academic foundation. Think in structures, not gut feel.  * Street-smart. Read the room fast. Prioritise ruthlessly. Grasp commercial reality.  * People-smart. Communicate with precision — clear, direct, persuasive. Build trust across functions and seniority.  * Athlete performance mindset. High aspirations. Grit. Learn faster than the environment changes.  * Entrepreneurial guts. Self-confident achiever. Act first, apologise later — speed is everything. Take full ownership of work normally reserved for far more senior profiles.    WHAT YOU BRING  * Background. Currently studying or graduated, top 10% of your class at a top-tier university. Analytical field — CS, Math, Physics, Finance, or equivalent rigour. Minimum 4th Bachelor semester.  * Experience. Previous experience as a working student or intern in a high-pressure, results-driven environment — top strategy consultancy, PE/VC-backed company, fast-growing tech, or demanding corporate financial services role. Hands-on Data & AI experience, as well as financial services experience, is a plus.  * Leadership. You have led — a team, a club, a project, a cause. We hire people who make things happen.  * Analytical edge. Data-driven by default. Leverage data to drive decisions, not just decorate slides.  * Languages. Fluent in English and German. Additional languages are a plus.  WHY JOIN ALAIKA  * Your launchpad. Convince during your Fellowship and earn a full-time offer after graduation — with partner-track ambition from day one.  * Stellar Network. Shoulder-to-shoulder with financial services executives running today’s giants and the founders + investors building tomorrow’s.  * Offices. Munich and Barcelona. More coming.  Plus: the essentials done right — EGYM Wellpass, bike leasing, a kitchen stocked with healthy food and team events worth showing up for: Oktoberfest, team dinners, and more.    Advise the leaders. Build what comes next. Invest in the future of Financial Services.  Apply with CV, transcripts, and references. Let’s see if you are the one.    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Equal Opportunities for all  Our team spirit celebrates diversity. We want you to be your true “you” and offer everyone an open culture and safe space with equal chances and opportunities.

Centre for Effective Altruism

ABOUT CEA The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world’s most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks. Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good – and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work. We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew by 20-25% year over year. We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund) raised almost as much as the previous three years combined. In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards. ABOUT THE TEAM The team behind the Opportunities Board is responsible for helping people discover and pursue high-impact career opportunities. We combine product development, user research, marketing, engineering, and operations to build and improve a product that helps people find impactful work and better understand how they can contribute to solving the world's most pressing problems. As Product Lead, you'll own the board's strategy and day-to-day development, working with software engineers, contractors, and colleagues across CEA to grow the product and maximise its impact. CEA’s Opportunities Board is a free, curated board of high-impact opportunities, hosted on effectivealtruism.org. It brings together full-time roles, fellowships, internships, volunteering, and courses helping people find impactful work and understand how they can contribute to the world’s most pressing problems. The board was revived in early 2025 and given focused attention in early 2026; monthly visitors have grown from around 1,500 at the start of 2025 to around 7,900 now. Early signals on product-market fit are encouraging: of the respondents to our most recent survey, 36 out of 45 said they would be very disappointed if they could no longer use the board, and around 32% of visits click through to view an opportunity. The opportunity here is growing. The 80,000 Hours job board provides a strong precedent and track record for the impact potential of this kind of service, but has narrowed its focus toward AI and is featuring fewer non-AI roles, leaving a gap for a broad, trusted board covering opportunities within a wider range of top problems. The board’s goal is to increase the number of people who land high-impact roles, both by helping them find and apply to specific opportunities, and by helping earlier-stage people orient, build skills, and work out where they fit. The board is now shifting from initial discovery into validating and scaling the model. We have evidence of demand, healthy engagement, and a plausible path to cost-effective impact at scale. What is needed now is a capable operator to own the board, grow it, and chase the ceiling of just how much impact this can generate. ABOUT THE ROLE You'll own the strategy and execution of CEA's Opportunities Board. The board has strong early traction, but there are two outstanding big questions: can we drive enough traffic to the board, and can we convert from traffic to placements into high-impact roles at a high enough rate? The track record of comparable job boards (especially 80,000 Hours) provides strong precedent here, but we need to experiment and validate that we can drive impact at scale through our own board. Alongside answering these, there are larger opportunities to explore: a logged-in experience with CV upload and matching, an AI career advisor, or evolving the board into a myriad of potential more comprehensive products helping people to land new high-impact roles. You'll inherit a working product with existing infrastructure, growing traffic, and a body of evidence about what's working and what isn't, including user research and a detailed handover document. Your job will be to use that foundation to grow the board's reach and its positive impact; iterating on the product itself while testing and refining the marketing channels that will drive sustainable growth. You'll combine product thinking with hands-on execution. You'll make strategic calls about what to focus on and what to drop, then build it; shipping changes to the board, running marketing experiments, setting up tracking, and exploring new directions. You'll be able to work with contractors, such as for marketing experiments or curating the board's listings, and with our staff software engineers to make technical changes. You will have flexibility to choose what to handle yourself, delegate, outsource, or automate. One version of success in this role is getting the board running well with little ongoing input: quickly making the highest priority improvements or automating enough of the work that running the board takes only a small fraction of your time, and then taking on another responsibility within CEA. That might be management of another product, launching a new product, AI uplift responsibilities, or a product engineering role, depending on the skills and expertise you bring. You'll report at first to Jamie Harris, our Courses Project Lead who has been advising on the initial testing and development of the board, potentially shifting to a new manager once we hire a Head of Digital Product later in the year. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES PRODUCT DELIVERY AND IMPROVEMENT * Iterate the board’s framing, UX, and features to better serve target users and increase the rate at which they find, apply to, and land high-impact opportunities * Ship improvements to the board, either working hands-on in the codebase or delegating to software engineers: filters, search, SEO and AEO pages, tracking * Improve the sourcing and curation of high-impact opportunities, likely delegating the day-to-day work to a virtual assistant or contractor * Run experiments with clear success criteria across every stage of the theory of change, from growing traffic to increasing the rate at which users land high-impact roles * Build the tracking and evaluation needed to understand whether, how, and for whom the board is working, including placement data, conversion, and retention GROWTH AND MARKETING * Develop and test a marketing plan to grow traffic to the board reliably and repeatedly, likely in collaboration with contractors * Find the channels that work, and double down on the most cost-effective and repeatable ones * Prioritise and optimise targets across traffic, engagement, and placements PRODUCT STRATEGY * Refine the target audience, the user needs you’re addressing, and the board’s curation and feature set * Continue to test and (in)validate the open strategic questions: whether the board leads to placements, and whether traffic can be grown enough for the board to be cost-effective at scale * Explore the larger opportunity in this space and decide which bigger bets to pursue, for example a logged-in experience (CV upload, profiles, and matching), an AI career advisor, or evolving the board into a broader careers product WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR You might be a great fit for this role if you have: * A product-development mindset: You understand what makes products compelling, and can design experiments with clear success criteria and make hard decisions based on data (qualitative and quantitative) * Impact focus: You are laser-focused on achieving exceptional levels of positive social impact through your work and the product, and strongly align with effective altruism principles * Strategic thinking skills: You have a track record of setting a clear vision, developing actionable strategies, and adapting plans based on new insights and evidence * Marketing instinct: You can attract and grow an audience and run acquisition experiments across channels such as paid ads, SEO and answer engine optimisation, email, and social * Comfort with delegating and managing: You can brief and coordinate software engineers, plus contractors like marketers or virtual assistants, to get work done * Execution velocity: You ship things. You don’t just theorise about new ideas, you build and test them * Scout mindset & reasoning transparency: You actively seek out evidence that challenges your assumptions, change your mind when warranted, and explain your reasoning openly * Familiarity with the impact-focused talent landscape: You understand the impact-focused career and talent landscape well enough to curate the board sensibly and to hold your own in conversations with people working in unusually impactful cause areas * (Bonus) Technical execution: You’re comfortable building and shipping changes to a live web product, working hands-on in the codebase with (or without) the help of AI coding tools * (Bonus) Experience with job boards, marketplaces, or other two-sided products, or with growth, SEO, and scaling digital products * (Bonus) Appetite for exploring new directions: You’re excited to explore and build bigger bets, like a logged-in experience or an AI career advisor, and comfortable with the ambiguity of zero-to-one work, not only optimising what already exists We don't expect one person to be excellent at all of these. Strong candidates will be excellent at several and willing to grow into the rest, and you'll be able to lean on collaborators and contractors to cover areas you're less comfortable with, for example bringing in marketing or engineering support where useful. OTHER INFORMATION * This is a full-time, remote position. We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific Time and CET. We have an office in Oxford, UK, that you would have access to. * Start date: September 2026 or sooner * Reports to: Jamie Harris, Courses Project Lead * Compensation * US: total compensation package of $109,867, comprising a base salary of $99,879, and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution. * UK: total compensation package of £66,095 , comprising a base salary of £60,087 , and a 10% pension contribution. * Other locations: For candidates outside the US and UK, we base compensation on our UK salary structure and adjust for the cost of employment and fixed local benefit costs to create an equivalent package * Benefits in the US/UK include private health insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 25 days of paid vacation, and more. * This role will involve travel. There are likely 2-4 trips annually, including several international trips to attend team retreats and events worldwide. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@centreforeffectivealtruism.org. CEA participates in E-Verify for US employees. We are committed to protecting your data. See our privacy policy for more information. EVALUATION PLAN We expect the interview process to include the following steps, subject to minor changes: * Application Review * Test task * Screening Interview * Final interviews (2, one culture-fit, one with Hiring Manager) * 1 day work trial (task based) * Reference checks

Seamflow

ABOUT THE JOB We’re removing one of the last great barriers to progress in the physical world. While software moves fast, industries like aerospace, healthcare, and energy are still slowed by outdated, manual systems. We are on track to raise our Series A, backed by a 14× oversubscribed $4.5m seed round from Tier-1 VCs such as Coinbase, Reddit, Klarna, and Spotify. Our world-class team includes former unicorn founding engineers and talent from X, Google, Amazon, and Yandex. We value people who want to win and thrive in high-ownership environments. We’re building the system that lets complex, real-world work move at software speed. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer who thinks in user workflows and model behavior, not benchmarks or isolated prompts. This is a role for someone who wants to decide what AI should do, build it end-to-end, and put it in users' hands. You will fit right in if you have experience with: * Applied AI — Design and build LLM-powered features that solve real workflows, from prompt to production * Model Behavior — Reason about why models fail, when to use which model, and how to make them reliable in production * Evals & Iteration — Build evals that actually catch regressions and drive improvements, not vanity metrics * Agents & Tooling — Design multi-step agents, tool use, and orchestration for complex domain workflows * Document Intelligence — Extract structured data from messy real-world documents (PDFs, scans, forms, tables) * Product Judgment — Be opinionated about what AI should do, what it shouldn't, and when "good enough" ships WHAT YOU WILL DO * Ship from Day 1 — Deploy AI features to production immediately and own a real user-facing surface area * Own it end-to-end — From problem definition to prompts, evals, monitoring, and iteration * Solve real problems — Sit in customer calls, look at real documents, debug bad outputs, and make the system better WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR TECHNICALLY * Strong experience with Python and modern LLM tooling (OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure OpenAI SDKs, structured outputs, function calling) * Experience building production AI systems beyond a wrapper around a chat API * Comfortable with evals, prompt engineering, and reasoning about model failure modes * Ability to work across the stack to integrate AI into real product workflows (TypeScript/React frontend, Python backend) * Ability to reason about complex domain workflows, not just prompt-response Strong plus if you have: * Founder or ex-founder experience * Early-stage or stealth startup background * Founder fellowships or similar environments (EF, YC, Antler, etc.) * Experience building AI-powered products in production * Experience working where requirements were unclear and evolving YOUR FIRST MONTH * Ship an AI feature to production from day one * Own problems end-to-end, from prompt to eval to deployment * Do what needs doing, including looking at hundreds of real outputs, debugging edge cases, and customer interaction WE OFFER * Pace and purpose — In-person in London (visa sponsorship available) * No friction — Relocation, visas, meals, and tools fully covered * A tight-knit team — High standards, high trust, no politics