Head of AI

• Set the AI vision and strategy with firm leadership across investing, portfolio impact, and operations


• Own Primary's AI product roadmap, prioritization, impact metrics, and results


• Lead development of shared context, data, infrastructure, evaluation methods, and technical primitives for trustworthy, reusable AI products


• Evaluate LLMs, agents, retrieval and context layers, evaluations, and model approaches


• Understand investor and operator workflows, prototype solutions, and ship products that improve decisions and outcomes


• Create tools, standards, and support enabling others to build agents on shared foundations


• Drive cross-functional AI integration, connect work across the firm, reduce duplication, and clarify ownership


• Direct engineers, analysts, and other contributors; recruit talent and build a culture of technical excellence


• Communicate strategy, roadmap, technical decisions, risks, and results to technical and non-technical audiences

Requirements

• 7-10+ years of experience building meaningful technical products or systems


• Deep, current, hands‑on fluency with LLMs, agents, context/retrieval layers, evaluations, and the model landscape


• Track record of turning ambiguous, zero‑to‑one opportunities into adopted products with measurable value


• Strong product judgment combined with technical depth


• Ability to understand user behavior, identify high‑leverage problems, and decide when to prototype, build, buy, or stop


• Entrepreneurial approach to creating momentum with incomplete information and taking responsibility for results


• Experience navigating complex organizations with senior stakeholders and building alignment without formal authority


• Interest in re‑architecting organizational workflows within a venture firm


• Crisp written and verbal communication for technical and non‑technical audiences


• Ability to work in person 3+ days per week in NYC


• Legally authorized to work in the US


• Must answer whether employment visa sponsorship is required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in AI product strategy, development, and integration, with a strong focus on LLMs, agents, and context layers. Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams, communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, and drive organizational change within a venture firm.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• AI Product Roadmap Ownership


• Hands‑On Experience with LLMs


• Cross‑Functional AI Integration


• Technical Communication Skills


• Stakeholder Alignment in Complex Organizations

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• AI Vision and Strategy


• Product Development


• Evaluation Methods


• Context/Retrieval Layers


• Model Evaluation


• Prototyping Solutions


• Impact Metrics


• Technical Primitives


• Data Infrastructure


• User Behavior Analysis

Soft Skills

• Entrepreneurial Mindset


• Crisp Communication


• Leadership


• Problem Identification


• Building Alignment

Industry Keywords

• Venture Firm


• Technical Excellence


• Organizational Workflows


• Product Judgment


• Stakeholder Management