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You will work across the company to turn priorities into action, drive the highest-leverage initiatives, and make sure important work moves with clarity and urgency. The scope will change as Forgepoint grows; if a problem matters to the company and lacks a natural owner, you will step in.\nYou will have visibility into every part of the business and a front-row seat to building the defining AI company for American manufacturing. This is not a calendar-management or administrative role. It is for a high-agency generalist with exceptional judgment who can zoom out to frame a decision, zoom in to do the work, and earn trust across the team.\nWhat You'll Do\nAct as a force multiplier to the founders: turn priorities into operating plans, drive follow-through, and keep the company focused on the highest-leverage work.\n\nLead cross-functional initiatives that span go-to-market, product, customer deployments, hiring, finance, and company operations.\n\nPrepare the company for key decisions by gathering context, analyzing data, framing tradeoffs, and making clear recommendations.\n\nBuild the operating cadence - goals, metrics, leadership meetings, planning, and accountability - that helps a fast-growing team execute.\n\nOwn high-stakes communication and special projects, from board and investor materials to strategic partnerships and company-wide initiatives.\n\nStep into important unowned problems, solve them end-to-end, and turn repeatable work into durable systems.\n\nWho you are\nYou have 4+ years in a demanding, analytical environment - such as an early-stage startup, consulting, investing, banking, or a strategic operating role\n\nYou have exceptional judgment and can separate urgent noise from what actually matters\n\nYou are highly organized and drive complex, cross-functional work to completion\n\nYou are analytically rigorous, comfortable with data and financials, and communicate clearly in writing\n\nYou thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and take ownership without waiting for direction\n\nYou are low-ego, trustworthy, and willing to do whatever the company needs to win\n\nYou care deeply about our mission and are excited to work in person five days a week in NYC with a founder mindset\n\nBonus points\nEarly-stage Chief of Staff, founder’s associate, strategy and operations, or company-building experience\n\nExperience supporting fundraising, board preparation, strategic finance, or investor relations\n\nExposure to enterprise software, AI, manufacturing, or industrial businesses\n\nYou use AI tools to automate research, analysis, and operational work\n\nAbout Forgepoint\nRevitalize an industry. Rebuild America's manufacturing backbone.\nAmerica builds satellites, jet engines, and semiconductors with world-class precision, but the software running factory offices is decades behind. Estimators, procurement teams, and accountants still lose hours to spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual data entry.\nForgepoint builds AI workers for back office departments like quoting, purchasing, invoicing, and sales coordination. By removing back-office bottlenecks, we help US manufacturers move faster, grow, and compete globally.\nWe're backed by a16z speedrun and angels from Brex, Xwing, and Betterment. Join us in rebuilding the digital foundation of American manufacturing.\nOur Founders\nJack Strauss- Co-Founder & CEO\nJack began his career at Acer and Northrop Grumman, then advised industrial companies at Bain. At Xwing, he helped scale the company and led GTM through its acquisition by Joby Aviation. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from USC.\nAlex Pareto- Co-Founder & CTO\nAlex began his career at Meta, founded YC-backed Demeanor, and joined NTWRK after its acquisition. He later became a founding engineer on Brex Spend Management and led its engineering organization. He holds a BS in Computer Science from USC.\nHow we work\nIn person every day in NYC for high-bandwidth collaboration\n\nTalk to users constantly: we build with manufacturers, not for them\n\nOwn outcomes end-to-end and drive solutions without waiting for permission\n\nOur Values\nWe're Here to Win: We are building to help American manufacturers, our customers, our company, and our teammates win at the highest level.\n\nThere's Always a Way: We are relentlessly resourceful, take ownership of constraints, and find a path forward when others stop.\n\nTruth Over Comfort: We choose honesty over ego, surface reality quickly, and change course when the facts demand it.\n\nAct Now: We move fast, trust our instincts, and correct course as we go.\n\nStep Up: We act like founders, fill gaps, fix problems, and follow through until the work is done.\n\nThe Team. The Team. 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