Primary Venture Partners

Primary Venture Partners

Operator-In-Residence (OIR): Agents

New York, NY

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 159 days ago
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About the role

  • Primary Labs is looking for an Operator-in-Residence (OIR) to explore the frontier of local AI and agent frameworks and turn technical breakthroughs into company opportunities.
  • This role is open to candidates based in New York or San Francisco.
  • You'll move from exploration to conviction quickly, helping determine which technical breakthroughs can underpin venture-scale businesses.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain a pipeline of hypotheses, pressure-testing them through independent research, conversations with domain experts, and internal debate with the Primary team.
  • Assemble and present supporting material (documents, slide decks, memos) to industry connections and firm teammates to refine ideas
  • Build working prototypes rapidly to prove out initial concepts, seek early customer feedback, and iterate in tight loops.
  • Develop initial business plans for the most promising opportunities, including technology architecture, product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Lead early hiring efforts to assemble the founding team.
  • Agent Native: You're already building with agents in your spare time and intuitively think in workflows, tools, and autonomous systems.
  • Assemble and present supporting material (documents, slide decks, memos) to industry connections and firm teammates to refine ideas; defend views with evidence while maintaining a willingness to abandon ideas that do not survive scrutiny.

Benefits

  • Entrepreneurial: You code constantly - side projects, experiments, and late-night "what if this works?" prototypes

Company info

  • As an OIR, you will work directly with the AI Infrastructure Investment team to identify, validate, and shape new company ideas.
  • OIRs at Primary Labs are company creators and have the opportunity to step into a founding role within a company they help incubate.
  • We're going to break down those barriers with a company designed to make agents more accessible, exploring topics that range from compute to privacy, commerce to social.

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