--- title: 'Community Lead at Sapien' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/community-lead-sapien-new-york-7a31pv2gh16j' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Community Lead at Sapien - **Company:** Sapien - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-02-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sapien/0725307f-fc68-4e4a-87b8-9a4670217e18 ## Job description ## Who we are Sapien is the engine behind the world’s most important companies. We build agents that learn how a business works from its financial and operational data: its language, operations, and economics. That understanding helps people find opportunities, make better decisions, and act. We work with complex businesses, from manufacturers and restaurant groups to the Fortune 500. Teams at companies including Bayer, Cooper Standard, Blink Charging, Carlex, and Odeko use Sapien to understand their businesses and improve how they run. Our ambition is to build the self-optimizing company by making its people and systems dramatically more capable. We’re headquartered by Madison Square Park in NYC, with $15M+ raised and backing from General Catalyst, Neo, and operators from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Ramp, and Stripe. We’re bringing together AI researchers, engineers, and operators to build intelligence for the people who build everything else. ## The role Community is a first-class function at Sapien—not a marketing channel, not a nice-to-have. It's how we build trust with finance leaders, find the people we want to work with, and reinforce the culture that makes this company run. You'll work closely with the CEO as a hybrid community builder, talent scout, and chief of staff. We're looking for someone who understands the tech and finance ecosystem—likely from a few years in VC, startup ops, or a similar seat where you were constantly building relationships, evaluating people, and connecting dots. ## What you'll do - Own events end-to-end. Plan and execute weekly dinners, monthly hiring events in NYC, and CFO dinners in NYC plus two additional cities each month. Manage the full Sapien event calendar on Luma—reading groups, team events, and external programming. - Run recruiting outbound and pipeline. Source candidates through LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and warmer channels. Set up coffee chats, support screening, and move candidates through the funnel in Ashby. - Build the candidate experience. Make sure every prospective hire feels the Sapien community before day one—personal outreach, event invites, LinkedIn shoutouts for new teammates. Capture photos at events and across the team. - Track what's working. Own KPIs across community and recruiting: event-to-interview conversion, touchpoints to hire, channel performance. Use data to improve the process, not just report it. - Set the internal rhythm. Organize in-office programming—AI reading groups, poker nights, team dinners—and make sure those moments are captured and shared. - Support the CEO on cross-functional projects. Pick up high-leverage work across ops, eng, and GTM as it comes up—whatever the team needs most. ## What we're looking for - 2–5 years in venture capital, startup operations, talent/recruiting, or a community-facing role in tech. - Natural relationship builder. People remember meeting you. You follow up and connect dots between people and opportunities without being asked. - Event planning chops. You've run dinners, panels, meetups, or recruiting events—and you know the difference between a forgettable happy hour and an evening people talk about afterward. You can also handle the unglamorous side: booking flights, coordinating travel, managing calendars. - Strong written communication. You can draft a LinkedIn post, a candidate outreach message, an event recap, and an eng blog brief all in the same afternoon. - Data-driven. You track what matters and use your numbers to decide where to invest time. - Fluent in tech and/or finance. You understand how startups work, how hiring works, and how finance teams think. You can hold a real conversation with a CFO and with a seed-stage founder. - Flexibility across tools. You'll live in Ashby, Luma, LinkedIn, and Sales Navigator daily. ## How you work (values we care about) - AI-native. You're energized by applying AI to transform how businesses run. - Ambiguity-shaping. You turn nebulous problems into a first pass and drive to resolution. - Extreme ownership. You identify what's next—and do it. If you say it, it gets done. - Speed & hustle. You bias to action and move with urgency without sacrificing quality. ## About Sapien ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sapien builds an AI-native platform for financial and operational analysis that connects to live ERP and warehouse data to deliver autonomous, traceable insights for finance and operations teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Ron Nachum (CEO), Pranav Ravella (CTO), Arya Grayeli (Chief Scientist) ## Core Business - Primary industry: AI-powered Financial & Operational Analytics / Enterprise Software - Target customers: Mid-market to Fortune 500 companies; FP&A, strategic finance, operations, and analytics teams (B2B/Enterprise) - Mission or purpose: To build autonomous coworkers for financial analysis that empower teams to make correct decisions, faster — reducing weeks-long processes to minutes. ## Products & Services - **[Sapien AI Platform]**: An AI-native analytics platform that connects directly to live ERP, warehouse, and spreadsheet data (SAP, NetSuite, Snowflake, BigQuery, Excel, on-prem ERPs). It provides 24/7 autonomous analysis, anomaly detection, driver-based forecasts, variance analysis, and root-cause explanations. Every answer is traceable to source transactions and logic, enabling finance teams to verify and intervene. (Type: AI SaaS Platform) ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$8.7M** (Seed round, October 2024) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investors General Catalyst and Neo, with participation from K5. Angel investors include executives and founders from Ramp, Cognition, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Notion, Adobe, Pilot, and more (e.g., Russell Kaplen, Claire Hughes Johnson, Sabrina Hahn, Scott Belsky). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **266.7% YoY** (to 16 employees as of mid-2025). LinkedIn followers grew **113.8% YoY** (to 3,122). The company has **20 active job postings** (monthly job postings up 81.8%). They are shipping rapid product iterations and expanding into enterprise-grade features. ## Competitive Advantages - **Persistent Business Context**: Sapien maps a company’s org structure, business rules, and definitions (e.g., "contribution margin") to its data, so context is not lost between queries. - **Live Data Connectivity & Traceability**: Unlike general-purpose LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), Sapien stays connected to live ERP/warehouse data and provides fully traceable answers down to source transactions, significantly reducing hallucination risk. - **SOC 2 Type II & SOC 3 Certified**: Built with enterprise-grade security and trust, with role-based access controls and a policy of never training on customer data. - **Deep ERP Expertise**: Works across complex, legacy systems (e.g., SAP, 20-year-old on-prem ERPs) that most AI tools cannot handle. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Shipping more powerful product iterations for customers, particularly for enterprise use cases (10-Q reporting, global pricing scenarios, margin variance analysis). - **Team Building**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, operations, and GTM to build a "talent-dense, high-velocity team" tackling hard AI research and product problems. - **Enterprise Go-to-Market**: Scaling from mid-market to Fortune 500, with a focus on automating recurring finance workflows and delivering 8-figure bottom-line impacts for customers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values ownership (end-to-end ownership of research, product, and customer work), inquisitiveness (always pushing for the "why" and "so what"), and adaptability (solving different, harder problems). The team is described as "talent-dense" and sits at the intersection of complex AI research, beautifully simple product, and high-impact use cases. - **Work Policy**: On-site in New York City (NYC). All open roles are listed as on-site/full-time. - **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Engineers own key aspects of research, product, and customer work end-to-end. The company builds systems that understand context, adapt in real time, and help teams make sharper decisions. Open-ended problem scopes are a core part of the day-to-day. ## Sources 1. [sapien.ai](https://sapien.ai/) 2. [sapien.ai/careers](https://sapien.ai/careers) 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getsapien) 4. [sapien.ai/blog](https://sapien.ai/blog/sapien-seed-round-general-catalyst) 5. 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