How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
Some teams are just too good to break up. Maybe you co-founded a venture that's pivoting, maybe your team got caught in a reduction in force, or maybe you're looking for the next thing to build together.
We already work in small pods: tight-knit teams of engineers working on a single project together. Joining Ode is a natural way to keep your team intact and shift your focus to building for clients with instant product-market fit. If you're part of an existing team of 2–5 engineers, we encourage you to apply to join Ode with Anthropic together.
One interview process. We'll arrange your interviews on the same day, with the same panel, against the same bar we hold every Ode engineer to.
One offer. If we decide to move forward, we'll make offers to your whole team at the same time. You're each free to accept or decline individually — though we hope you'll all say yes.
One first project. We'll work to staff you on an engagement together.
In 2026, we were introduced to the Fabius team — a Y Combinator (W23) startup that had spent three years building AI to automate sales workflows. They had a track record of building complex AI systems, and they'd spent considerable time perfecting the craft of partnering closely with customers to make sure their solutions delivered results. The more we talked, the more we saw a team whose strengths mapped almost exactly to what we hire for. For Fabius, joining Ode was a natural way to focus on what they were best at — building AI-powered products — while staying together as a team.
\"I was surprised how much autonomy Ode expected us to keep. Suddenly we had very interested, very motivated clients — and the same hard technical problems we used to grind through at Fabius. \" — Neil Madsen, Fabius Co-founder
\"When we spoke with Eddie and Chris, it felt like a bunch of founders hanging out. There was a certain expectation that the team itself was an asset, and Ode was specifically interested in protecting the way we were working together, rather than figuring out how to make everyone play a narrow role.\" - Andy Day, Fabius Co-founder
We have a distinct approach to building AI systems: applying standard software engineering discipline to the non-deterministic world of frontier AI. We design systems around testable hypotheses, curate durable data sets, and ensure what we ship keeps working long after we've handed it over.
After shipping 30+ AI products, we have strong opinions on what makes AI products succeed and how to get them into production. We think you'll find it refreshing if you've seen how most companies approach AI.
A typical engineer here ships two to three products per year and learns from dozens more. You have outsized autonomy on each product — but you won't have a year to polish a single system. The upside is constant time on the frontier of models and tooling, and a muscle for AI product development that's hard to build anywhere else.
Most engineers look back at this as the biggest growth period of their career. But it's possible you won't like it — we recommend using the interview process to hear what our engineers think.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Work arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote.
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
We're the call a CEO makes when they're ready to lead their industry into the age of AI — and the Principal is who answers.
Think of this function as a fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer for our clients. The expectation is for you to become the CEO's right hand and trusted confidant — the primary executive counterpart who helps them move their company into the AI era from a position of strength. It's a role closer to a partner at a top firm than a typical sales or delivery seat.
You'll own the full arc. You win the business, embed with the CEO to find where AI changes the game, and mobilize a team of world-class PMs and engineers to deliver results — not slideware. Our Principals drive the company's revenue, and they earn it on insight and Applied AI expertise.
Win the business. Convert warm, high-intent executive relationships — sourced through our consortium and Anthropic — into signed engagements. Bring the judgment to qualify hard, the credibility to earn trust fast, and the finesse to negotiate and close.
Become the CEO's fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer. Embed with leadership as their trusted advisor on AI, diagnosing where the real opportunity is and shaping a path the business will actually act on.
Mobilize delivery. Stand up engagements quickly and keep them pointed at outcomes. We're more Palantir than McKinsey — you orchestrate the work that ships value, not decks that sit on a shelf.
Own and grow the relationship. Stay the executive counterpart well past the first project, deepening trust and expanding the partnership over time.
You earn executive trust fast. CEOs and their leadership teams come to see you as the right hand they call first. You're crisp and compelling in the room and on the page, with any audience.
Relentless learning agility and unmatched curiosity. You have a track record of ramping quickly and becoming an expert across a wide range of technical and industry topics. You don't need to be an Applied AI expert on day one — you do need the curiosity and horsepower to become an expert within 90 days, engage technical leaders as a peer, and turn pattern-matching across many engagements into a compounding advantage.
Strategic and business acumen. You see where AI creates real enterprise value and translate it into a path a business will move on.
You're relationship-driven. You build durable, high-trust relationships and own them for the long term — through the engagement and well beyond.
You're a partner teams want. Engineers and PMs are genuinely glad to have you in the room. You bring senior judgment and help resolve blockers.
Revenue instinct. You recognize the right moments to advance and win business, and you have the commercial drive, urgency and finesse to close.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco Office; New York Office; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
This role is designed for former engineering leaders (IC or EM) or founders who are comfortable owning end-to-end technical outcomes but specifically want to continue being impactful as individual contributors and spend more time in the code.
You'll work on a small, high-caliber team (2–5 engineers and a PM) building AI products for our clients. You'll set technical direction, write code, and be the person the team looks to when something is hard.
You'll spend roughly 75% of your time in code and 25% working directly with clients — often their CTOs — understanding problems, walking through tradeoffs, and making sure what we’re building meets their needs.
Most engineers take a decade to see this range of hard problems across this many domains. Here, you'll do it in your first year. To make this possible, we are religious about being the best company in the world to learn Applied AI engineering practices.
8+ years of engineering experience, with deep care for the craft. You've shipped multiple complete products end-to-end and write elegant, production-ready code across multiple disciplines.
Specific interest in applying software engineering fundamentals to AI systems. You care about balancing frontier model capabilities with good system design.
Comfort talking with senior technical stakeholders. You navigate conversations skillfully, and care about people using what you build.
High ownership mindset. You jump in without instruction, embrace a \"no job too big, no job too small\" mindset, and want to shape strategy and culture.
Low ego, high integrity. You help others and ask for help. You hold a high bar for honesty–with yourself and your team.
We have a distinct approach to building AI systems: applying standard software engineering discipline to the non-deterministic world of frontier AI. We design systems around testable hypotheses, curate durable data sets, and ensure what we ship keeps working long after we've handed it over.
After shipping 30+ AI products, we have strong opinions on what makes AI products succeed and how to get them into production. We think you'll find it refreshing if you've seen how most companies approach AI.
A typical engineer here ships two to three products per year and learns from dozens more. You have outsized autonomy on each product — but you won't have a year to polish a single system. The upside is constant time on the frontier of models and tooling, and a muscle for AI product development that's hard to build anywhere else.
Most engineers look back at this as the biggest growth period of their career. But it's possible you won't like it — we recommend using the interview process to hear what our engineers think.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
The fastest way to learn how AI will reshape businesses is to go inside and help transform dozens of them. As an Associate Principal, you're the engine of our AI strategic advisory work — partnering with Principals to set companies' AI transformation agendas, and assessing value-creation opportunities and disruption risk across industries in diligence. In a given quarter you'll see inside several businesses and build pattern recognition that no other role in the market can offer.
This is the path to becoming the “fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer” our clients call first. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with Principals on live engagements, proposals, and relationship building, taking on more of the selling motion as you go. The role is not quota-carrying today, but it's built to grow into one.
Drive AI strategic advisory engagements end-to-end. You run point strategic engagements that set a company's transformation agenda or running diligence on an asset
Support live deals and the selling motion. Work alongside Principals on active pursuits — joining discovery calls, shaping proposals, helping manage relationships — and learn how we scope, price, and position our work.
Build your network. Through engagements and deal support, build durable relationships with executives and investors.
Be a high-utility player. As an early-stage company, the work extends beyond any one engagement — you'll jump into adjacent streams like partnership development, thought leadership, or internal tooling and process improvement.
High ownership, comfort with ambiguity. Engagement windows are tight, and you drive the work forward without waiting to be told what to do.
Learning agility and analytical horsepower. You ramp quickly on an unfamiliar industry, identify what matters, and form a defensible point of view — turning pattern-matching across engagements into a compounding advantage.
Crisp communication, written and verbal. You translate technical AI concepts into business language that lands with executives and deal teams.
Relationship-building instinct. You build rapport with people and are energized, not drained, by client-facing work.
AI-native. You're genuinely interested in AI and have a working understanding of what generative AI can and can't do. You don't need to be an engineer, but you need to be credible in a room with one.
Low ego, high resourcefulness. You're both a doer and a strategist.
You've contributed to several AI strategic advisory engagements alongside our Principals, progressing from supporting role to execution lead.
You're independently driving key takeaways, executive interviews, and deliverable creation on active engagements.
You've joined live sales or account conversations with a Principal, and are starting to understand how we scope, price, and position our work.
You've identified at least one way to improve how we operate — process, tooling, templates — and started making it better.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
At Ode, recruiting is one of our most important products.
Every interaction with a candidate shapes how people perceive our company. The best recruiting operations are nearly invisible—candidates feel informed, interviewers feel prepared, recruiters stay focused on hiring, and everything simply works.
We're looking for someone who is obsessed with creating that experience.
This isn't a traditional recruiting coordinator role. You'll own the operational heartbeat of recruiting, partnering closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and leadership to deliver an exceptional candidate experience while continuously improving the systems behind it.
As we scale, you'll help evolve our recruiting coordination function into an AI-native operation—designing intelligent workflows, building automations, and creating a hiring experience that's faster, more consistent, and more thoughtful.
Location: New York, NY
Own every operational touchpoint throughout the interview process. From scheduling interviews to coordinating offers, you'll ensure every candidate feels informed, welcomed, and cared for.
Coordinate complex interview schedules across executives, hiring managers, and candidates while balancing speed, quality, and candidate preferences.
You'll anticipate conflicts before they happen, solve last-minute issues calmly, and ensure interviews run seamlessly.
Own every detail of our in-person interviews—from greeting candidates and preparing interview rooms to coordinating lunches and ensuring interviewers are ready.
You care about the moments candidates remember.
As we grow, you'll identify bottlenecks and improve the way recruiting operates.
You'll create documentation, standardize workflows, improve scheduling processes, and continuously refine how the team works.
We believe AI should improve how we hire.
You'll experiment with AI tools and automation to eliminate repetitive work, streamline coordination, improve communication, and create better experiences for candidates and recruiters alike.
You'll regularly ask:
How can we make this easier?
What can we automate?
Where are candidates experiencing friction?
How do we make this feel more thoughtful?
You'll treat recruiting operations like a product that's never finished.
Within your first 3 months:
Candidates consistently tell us they've had one of the best interview experiences of their careers.
Scheduling becomes faster, smoother, and more scalable.
Recruiters spend more time recruiting and less time coordinating logistics.
Interviewers always know where they need to be and what to expect.
Recruiting workflows become increasingly automated.
The recruiting coordination function scales alongside the company without sacrificing quality.
3–5 years of experience in recruiting coordination, recruiting operations, executive operations.
Exceptional organizational skills with outstanding attention to detail.
Strong written and verbal communication.
Excellent judgment and the ability to prioritize in a fast-moving environment.
Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders and managing complex calendars.
A systems mindset—you naturally improve processes rather than simply following them.
Curiosity about AI and excitement to use it to redesign how recruiting works.
Experience with an ATS such as Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, or similar is a plus.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
We're hiring a seasoned Operator to lead and grow our lean Business Operations and Analytics team from first principles.
The core mandate: build the systems, infrastructure and enabling process to stay one step ahead of scale while taking on the special projects to support step-wise changes in our growth.
Ode is a true operations business: creating value by optimizing supply and demand. You’d own this critical intersection that’s the core of our business while writing the playbook for scaling in an AI native way.
Build the infrastructure to scale: Build the systems, data, and processes that keep us ahead of growth. Approach internal operations like a product, using AI and automation to create better ways of working as we scale.
Lead critical strategic initiatives: Take on the cross-functional problems and opportunities that matter most to our next stage of growth—from new market expansion to new bets across the business.
Optimize supply and demand: Connect our commercial pipeline to our workforce through forecasting, capacity planning, and staffing—ensuring we have the right talent deployed against the right work while optimizing utilization and economics.
Drive company planning and performance: Own the rhythms that help us run the company—from annual and quarterly planning to internal communications, business reviews, and Board preparation.
You've scaled a high-growth business: You've helped build the systems and infrastructure behind a company through a period of rapid growth.
You bring exceptional analytical and technical rigor: You're highly quantitative, understand how data and systems work under the hood, and can build rigorous models from messy inputs.
You're a player-coach: You can build and lead an exceptional team while staying deeply in the work.
You build lean by design: You default to better systems, automation, and AI before adding people or process.
You want to win: You have a high bar, move with urgency, and are deeply motivated to build something exceptional.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over “engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
This role is designed for former engineering leaders (IC or EM) or founders who are comfortable owning end-to-end technical outcomes but specifically want to continue being impactful as individual contributors and spend more time in the code.
You'll work on a small, high-caliber team (2–5 engineers and a PM) building AI products for our clients. You'll set technical direction, write code, and be the person the team looks to when something is hard.
You'll spend roughly 75% of your time in code and 25% working directly with clients — often their CTOs — understanding problems, walking through tradeoffs, and making sure what we’re building meets their needs.
Most engineers take a decade to see this range of hard problems across this many domains. Here, you'll do it in your first year. To make this possible, we are religious about being the best company in the world to learn Applied AI engineering practices.
8+ years of engineering experience, with deep care for the craft. You've shipped multiple complete products end-to-end and write elegant, production-ready code across multiple disciplines.
Specific interest in applying software engineering fundamentals to AI systems. You care about balancing frontier model capabilities with good system design.
Comfort talking with senior technical stakeholders. You navigate conversations skillfully, and care about people using what you build.
High ownership mindset. You jump in without instruction, embrace a \"no job too big, no job too small\" mindset, and want to shape strategy and culture.
Low ego, high integrity. You help others and ask for help. You hold a high bar for honesty–with yourself and your team.
We have a distinct approach to building AI systems: applying standard software engineering discipline to the non-deterministic world of frontier AI. We design systems around testable hypotheses, curate durable data sets, and ensure what we ship keeps working long after we've handed it over.
After shipping 30+ AI products, we have strong opinions on what makes AI products succeed and how to get them into production. We think you'll find it refreshing if you've seen how most companies approach AI.
A typical engineer here ships two to three products per year and learns from dozens more. You have outsized autonomy on each product — but you won't have a year to polish a single system. The upside is constant time on the frontier of models and tooling, and a muscle for AI product development that's hard to build anywhere else.
Most engineers look back at this as the biggest growth period of their career. But it's possible you won't like it — we recommend using the interview process to hear what our engineers think.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco, CA
San Jose, CA
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
This role is designed for former engineering leaders (IC or EM) or founders who are comfortable owning end-to-end technical outcomes but specifically want to continue being impactful as individual contributors and spend more time in the code.
You'll work on a small, high-caliber team (2–5 engineers and a PM) building AI products for our clients. You'll set technical direction, write code, and be the person the team looks to when something is hard.
You'll spend roughly 75% of your time in code and 25% working directly with clients — often their CTOs — understanding problems, walking through tradeoffs, and making sure what we’re building meets their needs.
Most engineers take a decade to see this range of hard problems across this many domains. Here, you'll do it in your first year. To make this possible, we are religious about being the best company in the world to learn Applied AI engineering practices.
8+ years of engineering experience, with deep care for the craft. You've shipped multiple complete products end-to-end and write elegant, production-ready code across multiple disciplines.
Specific interest in applying software engineering fundamentals to AI systems. You care about balancing frontier model capabilities with good system design.
Comfort talking with senior technical stakeholders. You navigate conversations skillfully, and care about people using what you build.
High ownership mindset. You jump in without instruction, embrace a \"no job too big, no job too small\" mindset, and want to shape strategy and culture.
Low ego, high integrity. You help others and ask for help. You hold a high bar for honesty–with yourself and your team.
We have a distinct approach to building AI systems: applying standard software engineering discipline to the non-deterministic world of frontier AI. We design systems around testable hypotheses, curate durable data sets, and ensure what we ship keeps working long after we've handed it over.
After shipping 30+ AI products, we have strong opinions on what makes AI products succeed and how to get them into production. We think you'll find it refreshing if you've seen how most companies approach AI.
A typical engineer here ships two to three products per year and learns from dozens more. You have outsized autonomy on each product — but you won't have a year to polish a single system. The upside is constant time on the frontier of models and tooling, and a muscle for AI product development that's hard to build anywhere else.
Most engineers look back at this as the biggest growth period of their career. But it's possible you won't like it — we recommend using the interview process to hear what our engineers think.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Build an ambient scribe that drafts a home health assessment before the clinician is back in the car? Or turn plain-language requests into precise configurations across the analytics platforms pharma companies run on.
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
We're the call a CEO makes when they're ready to lead their industry into the age of AI — and the Principal is who answers.
Think of this function as a fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer for our clients. The expectation is for you to become the CEO's right hand and trusted confidant — the primary executive counterpart who helps them move their company into the AI era from a position of strength. It's a role closer to a partner at a top firm than a typical sales or delivery seat.
You'll own the full arc. You win the business, embed with the CEO to find where AI changes the game, and mobilize a team of world-class PMs and engineers to deliver results — not slideware. Our Principals drive the company's revenue, and they earn it on insight and Applied AI expertise.
Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) is a major focus for both Ode and Anthropic. Ode partners with payers, providers, life sciences companies, medtech, and healthcare technology and services firms to apply AI across clinical and administrative workflows.
Win the business. Convert warm, high-intent executive relationships — sourced through our consortium and Anthropic — into signed engagements. Bring the judgment to qualify hard, the credibility to earn trust fast, and the finesse to negotiate and close.
Become the CEO's fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer. Embed with leadership as their trusted advisor on AI, diagnosing where the real opportunity is and shaping a path the business will actually act on.
Mobilize delivery. Stand up engagements quickly and keep them pointed at outcomes. We're more Palantir than McKinsey — you orchestrate the work that ships value, not decks that sit on a shelf.
Own and grow the relationship. Stay the executive counterpart well past the first project, deepening trust and expanding the partnership over time.
You earn executive trust fast. CEOs and their leadership teams come to see you as the right hand they call first. You're crisp and compelling in the room and on the page, with any audience.
Relentless learning agility and unmatched curiosity. You have a track record of ramping quickly and becoming an expert across a wide range of technical and industry topics. You don't need to be an Applied AI expert on day one — you do need the curiosity and horsepower to become an expert within 90 days, engage technical leaders as a peer, and turn pattern-matching across many engagements into a compounding advantage.
Strategic and business acumen. You see where AI creates real enterprise value and translate it into a path a business will move on.
You're relationship-driven. You build durable, high-trust relationships and own them for the long term — through the engagement and well beyond.
You're a partner teams want. Engineers and PMs are genuinely glad to have you in the room. You bring senior judgment and help resolve blockers.
Revenue instinct. You recognize the right moments to advance and win business, and you have the commercial drive, urgency and finesse to close.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco Office; New York Office; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
We're the call a CEO makes when they're ready to lead their industry into the age of AI — and the Principal is who answers.
Think of this function as a fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer for our clients. The expectation is for you to become the CEO's right hand and trusted confidant — the primary executive counterpart who helps them move their company into the AI era from a position of strength. It's a role closer to a partner at a top firm than a typical sales or delivery seat.
You'll own the full arc. You win the business, embed with the CEO to find where AI changes the game, and mobilize a team of world-class PMs and engineers to deliver results — not slideware. Our Principals drive the company's revenue, and they earn it on insight and Applied AI expertise.
Win the business. Convert warm, high-intent executive relationships — sourced through our consortium and Anthropic — into signed engagements. Bring the judgment to qualify hard, the credibility to earn trust fast, and the finesse to negotiate and close.
Become the CEO's fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer. Embed with leadership as their trusted advisor on AI, diagnosing where the real opportunity is and shaping a path the business will actually act on.
Mobilize delivery. Stand up engagements quickly and keep them pointed at outcomes. We're more Palantir than McKinsey — you orchestrate the work that ships value, not decks that sit on a shelf.
Own and grow the relationship. Stay the executive counterpart well past the first project, deepening trust and expanding the partnership over time.
You earn executive trust fast. CEOs and their leadership teams come to see you as the right hand they call first. You're crisp and compelling in the room and on the page, with any audience.
Relentless learning agility and unmatched curiosity. You have a track record of ramping quickly and becoming an expert across a wide range of technical and industry topics. You don't need to be an Applied AI expert on day one — you do need the curiosity and horsepower to become an expert within 90 days, engage technical leaders as a peer, and turn pattern-matching across many engagements into a compounding advantage.
Strategic and business acumen. You see where AI creates real enterprise value and translate it into a path a business will move on.
You're relationship-driven. You build durable, high-trust relationships and own them for the long term — through the engagement and well beyond.
You're a partner teams want. Engineers and PMs are genuinely glad to have you in the room. You bring senior judgment and help resolve blockers.
Revenue instinct. You recognize the right moments to advance and win business, and you have the commercial drive, urgency and finesse to close.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco Office; New York Office; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
We're the call a CEO makes when they're ready to lead their industry into the age of AI — and the Principal is who answers.
Think of this function as a fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer for our clients. The expectation is for you to become the CEO's right hand and trusted confidant — the primary executive counterpart who helps them move their company into the AI era from a position of strength. It's a role closer to a partner at a top firm than a typical sales or delivery seat.
You'll own the full arc. You win the business, embed with the CEO to find where AI changes the game, and mobilize a team of world-class PMs and engineers to deliver results — not slideware. Our Principals drive the company's revenue, and they earn it on insight and Applied AI expertise.
Win the business. Convert warm, high-intent executive relationships — sourced through our consortium and Anthropic — into signed engagements. Bring the judgment to qualify hard, the credibility to earn trust fast, and the finesse to negotiate and close.
Become the CEO's fractional Chief AI Transformation Officer. Embed with leadership as their trusted advisor on AI, diagnosing where the real opportunity is and shaping a path the business will actually act on.
Mobilize delivery. Stand up engagements quickly and keep them pointed at outcomes. We're more Palantir than McKinsey — you orchestrate the work that ships value, not decks that sit on a shelf.
Own and grow the relationship. Stay the executive counterpart well past the first project, deepening trust and expanding the partnership over time.
You earn executive trust fast. CEOs and their leadership teams come to see you as the right hand they call first. You're crisp and compelling in the room and on the page, with any audience.
Relentless learning agility and unmatched curiosity. You have a track record of ramping quickly and becoming an expert across a wide range of technical and industry topics. You don't need to be an Applied AI expert on day one — you do need the curiosity and horsepower to become an expert within 90 days, engage technical leaders as a peer, and turn pattern-matching across many engagements into a compounding advantage.
Strategic and business acumen. You see where AI creates real enterprise value and translate it into a path a business will move on.
You're relationship-driven. You build durable, high-trust relationships and own them for the long term — through the engagement and well beyond.
You're a partner teams want. Engineers and PMs are genuinely glad to have you in the room. You bring senior judgment and help resolve blockers.
Revenue instinct. You recognize the right moments to advance and win business, and you have the commercial drive, urgency and finesse to close.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco Office; New York Office; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
Our office is where Ode's culture shows up every day. It's in how a new hire's first morning goes, how a client feels walking in, and whether the team wants to be here on a Tuesday.
As we scale, keeping that culture strong gets harder and matters more. That's where you come in.
This is a high-visibility role with real impact. You'll own our San Francisco headquarters end to end and work closely with leadership, Recruiting and IT to make sure the office keeps up with a fast-growing company, and helps lead it. As we add space, people and new locations, you'll build the systems behind it. You'll use AI to clear the busywork, so your time goes to the moments people remember.
If you love making a place run well and feel like home, and creating memorable experiences, you'll fit right in.
Run day-to-day operations of our SF headquarters, including supplies, equipment, furniture, mail and packages, and building access
Run our lunch and snack programs end to end: menus, headcounts, delivery schedules and vendor performance
Manage office spend against budget, invoices and expense tracking
Run regular facilities audits to keep the space well maintained, fully stocked and ready for clients and candidates
Own all office communications, so the team always knows what's changing, when and why
Give the team clear ways to share feedback, and act on what you hear
Make sure everyone knows where to go to ask for help or report an issue
Set the bar for clear, timely, friendly communication across every office update
Be our day-to-day contact for building management, covering access, work orders, service requests and vendor certificates of insurance
Track vendor performance against service levels, and escalate when something slips
Keep vendor relationships strong and flag upcoming renewals
Plan and support team events, offsites and in-office weeks, covering every detail from start to finish, plus the surprise-and-delight moments that make Ode feel like Ode
Facilitate the new hire day one experience: desk setup, equipment and access cards, ready on arrival
Host every visitor, client and candidate with a warm, professional welcome
Run the logistics of seating changes, moves and new-floor setups, and keep the team informed at every step
Build and run one place for office requests, with clear response times and follow-through
Manage guest access, inventory and office records
Write and maintain office playbooks and the team FAQ
Help translate our operations to new and upcoming locations, supporting where needed
Use AI to automate workflows wherever it can do the job better
Run our EHS program, fire drills, and first aid and CPR readiness
In your first 90 days:
The office runs smoothly day to day, and the team knows exactly where to go for help
You've built strong relationships with building management and our core vendors
Office requests come through one place, with clear response times
You've automated a few repetitive tasks with AI
You're helping plan our next phase of space, and the team feels informed along the way
Have 4+ years running an office or workplace operations, ideally at a startup or fast-growing company
Are excited to use AI in all things office management, and to automate anything that can be automated
Have managed vendors and worked within a budget
Take ownership from start to finish and close every loop
Stay calm and kind when three things break at once
Read people well, can empathize and is an excellent communicator
Have low ego, high standards and a sense of humor
Supported an office move, buildout or expansion
Supported more than one office or floor
A hospitality or events background
CPR or first aid certification
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We go out of our way to experiment with the latest tools and share what we learn with our teammates - building a culture at the frontier.
Over \"engineer\" the culture: For every big decision, we ask “would this make Fractional a better or worse place for our team?”
San Francisco, CA
Full time, on site Monday through Thursday, plus some Fridays as needed, in our Financial District office, San Francisco
Typical hours 8:30am (or earlier) to 5:30pm, with flexibility for early mornings, moves and evening events
Able to lift up to 25 lbs, with or without reasonable accommodation
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital. We're headquartered in SF with offices in San Jose, NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
We're hiring our first Controller to build Ode's accounting function from first principles.
The core mandate: bring our books in-house, support our first audit, and build a close and controls environment that absorbs acquisitions, new entities and rapid growth. You'd write the playbook for running controllership in an AI native way.
This role reports to the Head of Finance, and is based in our San Francisco office.
What you'll do:
Take the books in-house and get them audited: Transition accounting from our outsourced partner to a close you own
Build an AI-native close: Run the monthly, quarterly and annual close under US GAAP across every entity. Use Claude to automate reconciliations, accruals, flux and close prep until the manual steps disappear, on the way to a 5-day close.
Own revenue for a services business: Set ASC 606 policy across fixed-fee, reserved-team and milestone SOWs, success fees and pass-through costs. Partner with Commercial and Legal before deals sign so the treatment is clear before work starts.
Make controls that scale: Design controls over order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, payroll and the close, including human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated work, with evidence our auditors and investors can rely on.
Absorb growth: Own purchase accounting and integration for acquisitions, stand up new entities and intercompany, own the chart of accounts, and define requirements for our move off QuickBooks to a modern ERP.
You've built a controllership from scratch: You have 10+ years in accounting, including public accounting and 3+ years as a Controller or Assistant Controller at a high-growth company. You've led a first audit and moved a company onto a real ERP.
You bring deep technical rigor: You're expert in US GAAP, especially ASC 606 for project-based, milestone and variable revenue, and comfortable with multi-entity consolidation and purchase accounting. CPA required.
You already overuse AI: You can show us something you built or automated in your accounting work with Claude, Cursor or similar, and you know where it still needs a human check. SQL or scripting is a plus.
You build lean by design: You default to better systems, automation, and AI before adding people or process.
You want to win: You have a high bar, move with urgency, and are deeply motivated to build something exceptional.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We go out of our way to experiment with the latest tools and share what we learn with our teammates - building a culture at the frontier.
Over \"engineer\" the culture: For every big decision, we ask “would this make Fractional a better or worse place for our team?”
San Francisco, CA
Full time, on site Monday through Thursday, plus some Fridays as needed, in our Financial District office, San Francisco
Typical hours 8:30am (or earlier) to 5:30pm, with flexibility for early mornings, moves and evening events
Able to lift up to 25 lbs, with or without reasonable accommodation
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.
We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.
Our customers come to us with ambitious, often fuzzy goals. They want new AI capabilities (agents, workflows, skills) built on messy proprietary data that hold up at scale, and they often can't yet say what success looks like.
Your job is to turn those goals into AI-powered solutions that work in the real world, and to own the journey from project kickoff to live system to a tangible business outcome, not just a demo.
This is a technical, hands-on product role. You work directly in the AI systems you build with our engineering team: you prototype early, work with the data, run evals, and help hill-climb on quality. You make product-level technical calls yourself and act as a thought partner to the lead engineer on architecture, weighing short-term velocity against long-term extensibility.
You also work directly with clients. You build trust with their stakeholders and present the work to their leaders.
This is a forward-deployed, full-stack product role:
Part product manager: you decide what we build and why.
Part builder: you prototype fast and get hands-on in the AI systems alongside our engineering team.
Part delivery manager: you keep execution on track and keep client stakeholders aligned on progress, risks, and tradeoffs.
Part \"do whatever it takes\" operator: you jump into the gaps to keep things moving.
Shape what we build and why. Translate ambiguous business problems into crisp problem statements, user journeys, and success metrics, and work with customers to define what \"success\" actually means.
Turn messy problems into shipped solutions. Translate ambiguous needs into clear requirements and PRDs, and run planning with engineers. Bring focus to define what good looks like for an AI system, then the drive to get it there.
Prototype to discover and derisk. Build working prototypes early to learn what users need and to surface the hardest technical risks before the engineering team commits to a build.
Build the ground truth. Work with client experts to assemble and label the ground-truth data that defines correct behavior for an AI system. Check it for coverage, consistency, and gaps, and plan how it gets maintained and extended.
Hill-climb quality with the engineering team. Work with engineers on prompts, context design, and evals for the AI systems you build together. Run offline evals against ground truth during development and online evals on live traffic after launch. Read the failures, propose the fix, and repeat until we hit production quality.
Shape technical decisions. Make product-level calls on model choice, retrieval and agent design, context management, and build vs. buy, and own the tradeoffs those calls carry for the project.
Drive execution across multiple AI products. Run the day-to-day rhythm including planning, check-ins, risk tracking, and coordinating between clients, engineers, designers, and Ode teammates to keep work unblocked and on time.
Drive adoption and long-term impact. Work with client teams on rollout and enablement so the systems you build actually get used. Bring back insights that inform Ode's playbooks and product direction.
Bring judgment and clarity. When requirements are fuzzy or customers change course, be the person in the room who can say: here's what we're trying to do, here's what we know, here's the plan.
Help build the team, not just the products. Own a team-wide initiative such as delivery playbooks, learning and development, or hiring. Experiment with AI tools and add what works to our shared PM toolkit.
Real product and delivery experience. You've built and shipped products with engineers and designers across multiple cycles. You love to execute and are good at it. We typically look for 5+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or data science. However, we care more about what you've done than the label on your resume.
Technical depth. You have a strong engineering, data, or technical PM background. You can whiteboard an end-to-end architecture, read a data schema and spot the problems, and use AI tools to build a medium-complexity system that holds up.
AI fluency. You know how modern AI systems behave in practice. You know when retrieval beats agentic search, how to manage context across long multi-step tasks, when a reasoning model is worth the extra latency and cost, and where tool-using agents tend to break. You can explain these tradeoffs to a CTO and defend a design under technical questioning.
Quantitative fluency. You can model out complex questions about a system with numbers: what it costs per transaction and how accuracy trades off against cost and latency. Your analysis is logical, easy to extend, and holds up to scrutiny.
Client-facing acumen. You're the translation layer between novel technical concepts and business outcomes. You can run a working session with client stakeholders, present to their execs, and keep the relationship healthy as plans change. Client-facing or consulting experience is a strong plus.
Structured problem-solving and communication. You ask sharp questions and turn a messy situation into a plan. You can whiteboard with an exec in the morning and write a precise spec for engineers in the afternoon. You communicate clearly and directly.
Bias for action and ownership. You roll up your sleeves and make things happen, whether that's running your own data analysis, monitoring code quality with AI, shipping a prompt change, building a prototype, or jumping into a last-minute exec demo. When there's a gap in what you know, you close it yourself.
Comfort with ambiguity and intensity. You like high-energy environments, messy problems, and \"we haven't done this before\" projects. You can juggle multiple projects, keep priorities straight, and make good calls with incomplete information.
Intellectual humility and fast learning. AI moves fast, so your learning has to move with it. You say \"I don't know, let me check\" instead of overcommitting, and you don't let last quarter's assumptions about AI decide this quarter's design.
Team-first mentality. High integrity, low ego, high agency. You lift others up and actively share best practices and seek to learn from others. You care about winning together.
Joining a services-first startup is an exciting transition. Unlike a traditional product company, you'll own two to three 0-to-1 products a year and learn from dozens more at the same time. You have outsized autonomy on each product, but you won't have a year to polish a single system. It's fast-paced, highly varied, keeps you on the frontier of models and tooling, and is the best way in the world to master applied AI product management.
Many PMs look back at this as the biggest growth period of their career. But it's possible you won't like it and we recommend using the interview process to hear what our team members think.
Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
Over\"engineer\" the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote
🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.