Zania
Ex Founder
Palo Alto, CA · Exec
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Agentic AICommunication
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About the role
- This isn't a traditional corporate role.
- It's a creative and operational challenge built for a battle-tested entrepreneur.
- We are looking for an ex-founder to act as a co-pilot to our founding team.
Responsibilities
- Drive 0-to-1 Strategic Initiatives: Parachute into the most critical areas of the business-whether that is standing up a new revenue channel, fixing an operational bottleneck, or launching a new product initiative-and build it from the ground up.
- Accelerate Growth: Act as a high-agency growth engine. You will identify untapped GTM motions, build strategic partnerships, and execute experiments with relentless speed.
- Manage Investor Relations: Work directly alongside the CEO on fundraising strategy, board deck creation, investor updates, and capital allocation planning.
- Extreme Agency: You don't wait for permission or perfectly outlined scopes. You find the biggest fire or the biggest opportunity and you own it.
- Zania is building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) to solve this massive problem.
- Funded by a leading Tier 1 venture capital fund, giving us the resources to build a generational company.
- Drive 0-to-1 Strategic Initiatives:
- Parachute into the most critical areas of the business-whether that is standing up a new revenue channel, fixing an operational bottleneck, or launching a new product initiative-and build it from the ground up.
- You will identify untapped GTM motions, build strategic partnerships, and execute experiments with relentless speed.
- Manage Investor Relations:
Requirements
- Experience as a Founder, Co-Founder, or early executive at a venture-backed or bootstrapped startup
- Track record of scaling revenue, operations, or product initiatives from zero to tangible traction
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills-you must be able to credibly interact with CISOs, Fortune 500 executives, and Tier 1 investors
- The bar is simple: Does this memo prove you have founder-level clarity, grit, and strategic taste?
- You have been in the driver's seat.
- You know what it takes to survive, pivot, and scale in highly ambiguous environments.
Compensation
- Competitive Compensation & Equity: You will be rewarded like an owner.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO policy
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Company info
- Zania is hiring the best.
- Our team includes AI and Security leaders from Airbnb, Microsoft, Bain & Company, Deloitte, PwC, Brex, and Instacart.
- Pioneering Technology:
- Our engineers and GRC experts work at the absolute forefront of applied AI, building the next generation of agentic systems that will define the future of compliance.
- Hyper-Growth:
- We have seen 10x ARR growth in the last year and are rapidly expanding.
- Zania is growing at a breakneck pace. We are looking for an ex-founder to act as a co-pilot to our founding team. We don't want someone who needs a playbook
- If you are a former founder looking to join a deeply technical, hyper-growth rocketship and get your hands dirty building a generational company, this is your arena.
- We are on a rocketship trajectory, creating intelligent agents that automate and augment the most complex risk and compliance workflows.
- Dream Customers:
- Our customers are the most notable enterprises in the world, including FAANG, Big 4 firms, and a portfolio of top customers.
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