USASpecial Projects
4 нед. назад
USASenior
Work closely with CEO and Chief of Staff on strategic and operational projects critical to the company, gaining insight into frontier AI company operations.
О компании
- Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.
- Odyssey’s founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars. They’ve now brought together a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, who have made significant contributions to language models (DeepMind Gemini), video models (DeepMind Veo), world models (Wayve GAIA), and autonomous systems (Tesla FSD).
- Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV, Amazon, AMD, EQT, NVIDIA, Natural Capital, In-Q-Tel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines.
Обязанности
- Own important projects from the initial question through execution. You’ll define the problem, decide how to approach it, gather the right information, and keep the work moving.
- Explore new products, markets, and business models, developing a clear view of where Odyssey should play as the market for world models takes shape.
- Build relationships with potential partners, investors, and others who could become important to the company.
- Develop a strong understanding of the competitive landscape, relevant technologies, and emerging opportunities - and help the leadership team understand what they mean for Odyssey.
- Prepare clear, thoughtful materials for fundraises, board meetings, investor conversations, and other important company moments.
- Take ownership of priorities that span multiple teams, clarifying what needs to happen, bringing the right people together, and building lightweight operational systems to make sure the work gets done.
- Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and Chief of Staff, helping sharpen questions, pressure-test ideas, and keep the company focused on what matters most.
Требования
- You’ll work closely with Odyssey’s CEO and Chief of Staff on whatever matters most to the company at a given moment. Some projects will be strategic and externally visible. Others will be hands-on and operational. We’re looking for someone who enjoys making sense of messy problems, and who can be trusted to find the right people, develop a clear point of view, and see the work through. You’ll have a close-up view of what it takes to build a frontier AI company. You’ll learn how the technology, product, and business fit together, and you’ll have a real hand in where we go next.
- 7+ years of experience across strategy and operations, product, investing, consulting, strategic finance at a fast-growing technology company.
- Hands-on experience working with AI products or technologies and a strong understanding of the AI landscape.
- Able to take a difficult, loosely defined problem and run it down from question to outcome.
- Analytical and structured, with the judgment to make progress when information is incomplete.
- A clear, concise writer and communicator who builds trust across technical teams, executives, investors, customers, and partners.
- Low ego, highly dependable, and comfortable moving between major strategic questions and practical details.
- Quick to learn, energized by unfamiliar problems, and thoughtful about when to work independently or bring others in.