Up Labs

Up Labs

CEO-in-Residence - Safety Intelligence Platform

USA · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 224 days ago
Machine LearningCustomer Success

About the role

  • This is a hands-on role for someone who can go from zero to scale with urgency, clarity, and grit.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the AI Transformation of Aviation Safety with UP.Labs If you've built and exited a successful B2B SaaS or data-driven company in safety, operations, or aviation - and are eager to do it again - this is your moment to found something game-changing that includes structural advantages beyond the dreams of most startups.
  • Build engineering, product, sales, and customer success functions from the ground up
  • Start with the design partner airline and expand into new accounts across aviation and transportation
  • You're solving a problem validated by our corporate partner and the broader ecosystem.
  • Work alongside institutional investors, UP.Partners, and top corporate LPs.
  • Tap into product, engineering, legal, recruiting, and GTM support from the UP.Labs operating team.

Nice to have

  • Major Metro Preferred

Compensation

  • A competitive base salary and a meaningful ownership stake from day one.

Benefits

  • Founder-level equity.
  • Partner with VCs, articulate the vision, and secure the resources needed to scale Leverage the UP.Labs platform: Work with UP.Labs product and venture teams to unlock value and accelerate time-to-market

Company info

  • Voice-enabled mobile reporting replacing legacy desktop systems with an intuitive, offline-capable experience for frontline workers AI-powered classification across 140+ safety categories, eliminating manual triage and dramatically accelerating response times Predictive risk management surfacing patterns and precursor events before they become incidents Autonomous investigation agents that compile evidence, generate insights, draft reports & take action automatically The Opportunity You'll lead this vertical AI company through its four-phase transformation roadmap - from foundation through fully autonomous safety operations.
  • The platform is positioned to become the first comprehensive AI-powered safety intelligence system in commercial aviation, with expansion potential across transportation industries globally.
  • Your Role You'll serve as founding CEO - setting the direction, building the team, and owning outcomes.
  • We're looking for a CEO to build and scale an AI-powered safety intelligence platform from day one, in partnership with our corporate partner, a leading US airline.
  • Close the first 5-10 enterprise customers, establish repeatable

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