London, England, United Kingdom · On-site
<p>Right now, who gets funded depends on who you happen to know. If you're in Silicon Valley with the right warm intros, you raise. If you're a brilliant founder in Lagos, Karachi, Bogotá or anywhere outside the default …
Skills: AI Engineering, Product Architecture, Serverless Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, AI Governance
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Lead the technical build and product architecture of IRIS, an AI fundraising agent, from MVP to scale. Build and manage the engineering team while translating network behavior into AI-driven workflows across multiple platforms.
Requires a strong AI engineering background with experience scaling data-driven products and implementing trustworthy AI practices. Must be a product-minded engineer comfortable with ambiguity and modern serverless cloud infrastructure.
Right now, who gets funded depends on who you happen to know. If you're in Silicon Valley with the right warm intros, you raise. If you're a brilliant founder in Lagos, Karachi, Bogotá or anywhere outside the default networks, you spend months in cold email purgatory, regardless of how good your company or non-profit is.
IRIS is rebuilding that. She's a personal AI fundraising agent for the most exceptional founders. She gets to know each founder, their stage and what they're raising, then makes the warm introductions that move their round forward.
IRIS works both sides of that connection. For investors, she's signal: a stream of qualified, pre-vetted founders matched to their real thesis, with the warm path already mapped, and far less noise than their inbox. The founders get access; the investors get the right founders in front of them. Underneath, IRIS is a relationship intelligence layer, part network operating system, part CRM, part autonomous agent, that learns from every interaction and gets sharper the more the network uses her.
She lives where founders and investors already work, across email, WhatsApp, phone and web. We're starting with women founders in Europe, and building toward every founder, in every market, who has been raising on the wrong side of the network.
We're looking for a Founding CTO to lead the technical build of IRIS, shape product and architecture from day one, and grow the engineering team as the company scales.
The way capital gets allocated today is inefficient and unfair. The best founders don't always get funded; the best-connected ones do. That's a routing failure, and it has real consequences for which companies get built and which problems get solved.
IRIS is an attempt to fix it at the infrastructure level. We're opening access to networks that were closed, routing capital toward fit and merit rather than proximity, and moving founders forward with the coaching and preparation they need to actually succeed once they get the meeting. Done right, this changes who gets funded, and that changes what gets built.
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If you want to spend your time on a problem that matters, with the ownership of a founding role and the leverage to affect it at scale, build IRIS with us.
Your personal AI super networker to help you fundraise. Intelligence. Alignment. Outcomes
IRIS is an AI-powered network that routes women founders to the right investors, mentors, and opportunities — without the guesswork, cold outreach, or wasted meetings.
View all jobs at IRIS OSYour personal AI super networker to help you fundraise. Intelligence. Alignment. Outcomes
IRIS is an AI-powered network that routes women founders to the right investors, mentors, and opportunities — without the guesswork, cold outreach, or wasted meetings.
View all jobs at IRIS OS