New Roles for Talent with High-Agency & Taste — September 29, 2026
A strong demand for high agency and ownership across various roles in product, sales, AI research, and operations.
The market is currently demanding candidates who can navigate ambiguity and drive results with high agency. Companies are seeking individuals who not only possess technical skills and high-agency, but also demonstrate ownership and taste in their work. This is particularly evident in roles across product management, sales, and AI research.
Product
Roles in product management emphasize taste and ownership to drive innovation.
Group Product Manager — Mirage
On-site · Union Square, New York City
You’ll need to develop exceptional product taste while adapting to changing models and modalities.
t feel coherent even as the underlying models and modalities change. • Develop exceptional product and model taste. Evaluate generated media across quality, controllability, consistency, latency, cost, and creative…
Signals: Taste · Ambiguity · Craft
Director of Product, Workflows — CreatorIQ
Remote · Warsaw
This role asks for real product taste and the ability to evaluate AI outputs critically.
ion, human-in-the-loop review, and where an agent shouldn't be allowed to act alone. • You have real product taste and you use it on AI output. You can look at an agent's plan, a generated brief, or a search result and…
Signals: Taste · Ownership · Builder · Proactiveness
Founding Product Manager — Dots 💸
On-site · San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US · $200k–$280k
You will take ownership in building payout infrastructure for a Series A fintech.
Founding Product Manager About Dots Dots ( usedots.com ) is a Series A fintech backed by Y Combinator and DCM, building payout infrastructure f
Signals: Founding team · Ownership · Craft
Senior Product Manager, Data & Onboarding — Axion Ray
Hybrid · San Francisco, CA
The emphasis is on collaboration and high agency to drive team success.
it, and acting on it — and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden. You’re low-ego but high-agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually. You move quickly,…
Signals: High agency · Craft · Proactiveness
Product Manager — AfterQuery
On-site · San Francisco
You’ll shape engineering organization and lead major initiatives in a founding role.
ou’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives. Strong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley…
Signals: Founding team · Ambiguity · Proactiveness
Product Operations Manager (DesignOps) — Mistral
On-site · Paris
Build the design-ops discipline from scratch while automating coordination with AI.
hipping before it ships. This is a team-of-one role with a founding design-ops mentality. You will build the discipline from scratch, automate repetitive coordination with AI where it helps, and coordinate people where…
Signals: 0 to 1 · Ambiguity · Proactiveness
Sales
Sales positions require high agency and a proactive approach to succeed.
Account Executive (Founding Role) — Kinter
Remote · US / Remote (US) · $120k–$150k
You'll be a founding Account Executive, essential in establishing go-to-market strategies.
y a16z, Bain Capital Ventures, and YC, and getting our go-to-market motion off the ground. We're hiring our very first founding Account Executive to partner directly with our CEO and CRO, take over founder-led selling…
Signals: Founding team · 0 to 1
Unstructured Data Solutions Sales Specialist — Hpe Wfmathpe
On-site · Winnersh, Berkshire, United Kingdom
High agency is crucial for navigating slow-moving programmes in data solutions.
Honest on competition in Data Solutions & Storage. • Travel: Willingness to travel the UK–KSA–UAE triangle. High agency in programmes that move slowly, then all at once. Fluency in English both written and verbally is…
Signals: High agency · Craft
Solutions Consultant, Commercial - Nordics — Notion
On-site · Dublin, Ireland · $144k–$156k
You will operate with urgency and agency while presenting innovative ideas to customers.
akeholder interactions including procurement, legal, and security review cycles • You can own the room - you operate with agency and urgency to bring new ideas and workflows to our customers and present simple ways to…
Signals: High agency · Craft
AI Research
AI research roles are looking for builders who can navigate complex challenges.
Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences) — Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · $280k–$320k
This role requires identifying challenges in deploying AI in life sciences.
), instruments, scientifically-grounded benchmarks, and agent skills that other institutions can adopt without starting from scratch. • Identify what's actually hard about deploying AI in life sciences (heterogeneous…
Signals: 0 to 1 · Ambiguity · Builder
Senior Applied AI Engineer — Mintlify
On-site · San Francisco · $190k–$265k
Drive change and strategic decisions with high agency in product-building.
thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built: • Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you'll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions • You’ll have plenty of heads-down…
Signals: High agency · Craft
4 more open roles at Mintlify matched today.
Operations
Operational roles call for high agency and ownership in fast-paced environments.
AI Associate - m/f/d — Langdock
On-site · Berlin
Show high agency and ownership by resolving technical and operational issues.
ricky technical or operational problems and figuring out what is really happening under the hood. • You show high agency and full ownership. You see a ticket through from first message to resolution and dig into root…
Signals: High agency · Ownership
Implementation Manager — Tabs
On-site · New York City, NY
You will thrive in ambiguity, building processes from scratch in this proactive role.
a proactive self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and enjoys building playbooks and processes from scratch. With deep expertise in accounting principles and technical systems, you’re comfortable…
Signals: 0 to 1 · Ambiguity · Proactiveness
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Product Finance & Strategy, Monetization — Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA · $190k–$240k
You’ll own a workstream and drive complex operating models independently.
performance metrics Minimum qualifications • Advanced modeling: you can build and maintain a complex operating model from scratch, and you enjoy doing it • A record of owning a workstream and driving it independently…
Signals: 0 to 1 · Ownership · Craft · Autonomy
Media Buyer / Creative Strategist (Remote) — Sweat Pants Agency
Remote · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Direct creative strategy and maintain high standards to prevent mediocrity.
client is about to force the account into mediocrity, and raise a problem before it becomes a fire. You have taste and you know when to hand off. You direct creative, you don't half-build it yourself. AI slop shipped to…
Signals: Taste · 0 to 1
Customer Success Manager — Searchable
Hybrid · Salt Lake City, Utah · $100k+
Build processes from scratch in customer success for a startup environment.
SEO or AI Search, Google Analytics or Google Search Console • Early-stage startup experience where you build processes from scratch. Compensation and Location • Location: 3-4 days in office at our Salt Lake City, Utah…
Signals: 0 to 1 · Craft · Autonomy
Strategy and Growth Lead — Beyond Reach Labs
On-site · New York City
Your role will involve building financial models that influence key leadership decisions.
strategy, business or revenue operations, FP&A, management consulting, or investment banking • Built financial models from scratch that leadership used to make decisions on pricing, investment, or fundraising •…
Signals: 0 to 1 · Ambiguity · Proactiveness
Senior Backend Engineer — Mintlify
On-site · San Francisco · $190k–$265k
You’ll have a voice in strategic decisions as a backend engineer with high agency.
thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built: • Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you’ll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions. • You’ll have plenty of heads-down…
Signals: High agency · Craft
4 more open roles at Mintlify matched today.
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