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Founder & CEO: Agentic systems startup (stealth)

Full-time / Greater Seattle Area / Hybrid

Are you a visionary leader passionate about using AI to transform business? Excited about expanding agentic tools for developers? Madrona Venture Labs is incubating a startup that helps builders create effective, efficient, and dynamic agentic systems. We seek a technology-fluent leader with excellent communication skills, community engagement experience, and a big vision for AI's potential.

Join our founding team, partner with Madrona Venture Labs experts, and help launch a cutting-edge technology venture.

The Founder-in-Residence, CEO opportunity at MVL is designed to match successful entrepreneurs with business ideas with potential to be industry-changing.

Important attributes and skills include:

• Track record of delivering technical products, especially in infrastructure, enterprise, or machine learning
• Outgoing, tech-savvy visionary skilled at engaging technical users
• Strong presentation skills; experience with pitching and fundraising preferred
• Understanding of GenAI technologies, models, frameworks, prompt systems, and agents, with ability to simplify complex concepts for non-technical audiences
• Passion for AI infrastructure and developer experience
• Leadership ability; experience leading and recruiting teams of 10+ members in product, engineering, and go-to-market roles
• Entrepreneurial mindset; comfortable in ambiguity and excited about early-stage development
• Willing to relocate to or be based in Seattle

Additional desirable qualities:

• Previous startup founding or leadership experience
• Experience creating pitch decks and fundraising from venture capital
• Experience with open source products and communities

Learn more about Madrona Venture Labs on our website and explore our Stories. To apply, send your resume or CV and cover letter to ...@madronavl.com.

Not all requirements? That's okay. If you're excited about this role and our mission, consider applying. You might be the right fit for this or other roles within MVL.

We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

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