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The role involves identifying the biggest unsolved business problems at strategic customers, designing and shipping entirely new products that solve those problems, and scaling successful solutions globally.\n\nDiscover and build Glean’s next product surfaces: 0‑to‑1 product creation with no predefined scope.\n\nLead deep opportunity discovery: analyze business pain points, formulate hypotheses, and validate with customers.\n\nAct as a technical partner to the C‑suite: earn trust with executives and technical teams, explaining design, risks, and value.\n\nScale what works: make solutions repeatable and scalable in partnership with core R&D.\n\nStay at the frontier: work closely with Glean’s engineering and product teams to shape platform capabilities.\n\nAbout You\n\nThink like a founder, curious about business, and able to ship products that drive real outcomes.\n\nHave a 0‑to‑1 build track record, having produced software from scratch in ambiguous environments.\n\nExperience shipping AI‑powered solutions in production, including prompt engineering, agent development, and deployment at scale.\n\nPossess full‑stack technical depth and strong programming skills across the stack.\n\nShow business acumen: diagnose problems and connect them to product hypotheses without a brief.\n\nBuild trust quickly at all organizational levels, communicating clearly and adapting depth to the audience.\n\nOwn builder’s judgment: understand what is buildable, estimate timelines, and simplify scope for rapid production.\n\nBe curious and scrappy, finding paths forward when none are obvious.\n\nHave 4+ years in technical roles and a track record of shipping production software; former technical founders strongly encouraged.\n\nBe willing to travel 25–50% of the time.\n\nNice to Have: founder experience, a technical degree in CS or related field, deep familiarity with LLMs and retrieval systems, and experience driving enterprise technology adoption.\n\nLocation\n\nHybrid: 3–4 days per week in our NYC office.\n\nRequires 25–50% travel.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nThe annual base salary range for this position is $160,000–$270,000, depending on location, level, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and additional benefits. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, and dental coverage, a generous time‑off policy, 401(k) contributions, a home‑office improvement stipend, and annual education and wellness stipends.\n\nEEO Statement\nWe are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse company. 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