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Founder & CEO: Agentic systems startup (stealth)

Full-time / Greater Seattle Area / Hybrid

Are you a visionary leader who is passionate about using AI to transform the way we do business? Are you excited about expanding agentic tools for the developer community? Madrona Venture Labs is incubating a startup that delivers services to help builders create effective, efficient and dynamic agentic systems. We are looking for a technology-fluent leader with great communication skills, experience in community engagement and big vision about what AI can do. Join our founding team, partner with the startup experts at Madrona Venture Labs, and help us launch another cutting-edge technology venture.

The Founder-in-Residence, CEO opportunity with our team at Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) is designed to match successful entrepreneurs with business ideas that we believe have the potential to be industry changing opportunities.

The attributes and skills that are important to us include: 

• A successful track record of delivering technical products, especially in infrastructure, enterprise or machine learning.
  
• An outgoing, tech-savvy visionary, skilled at engaging a technical user base.
  
• Strong presentation skills.  Experience with pitching and fundraising is preferred.
  
• Understanding of GenAI technologies, including models, frameworks, prompt systems and agents combined with the ability to distill these complex concepts into easily digestible insights, especially for non-technical audiences, such as customers, coworkers, and investors.
  
• Passionate about AI infrastructure and the developer experience.
  
• Demonstrated leadership ability. Has led and recruited at least small-to-medium-sized teams (10+ members), including product, engineering, and go-to-market functions.
  
• Entrepreneurial acumen. Comfortable in ambiguous situations and excited about early-stage development and a diverse range of responsibilities.
  
• Located in or willing to move to the Seattle area.
  

Outstanding candidates will also have:

• Prior successful experience founding or leading a startup.
  
• Experience building company pitch decks and fundraising from venture capital providers.
  
• Experience with open source products and  the open source communities.
  

Please visit our website to learn more about Madrona Venture Labs. Check out our Stories to learn more about the types of companies we build. To apply, please send your resume or CV and cover letter to opportunities@madronavl.com.

Don’t meet every requirement listed above? That's okay. If you’re excited about this role and our mission but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles within the broader MVL portfolio.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and highly value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.