--- title: 'Executive Business Partner at Gimlet Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/executive-business-partner-gimlet-labs-san-francisco-5z7qmxc97ejn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-14' --- # Executive Business Partner at Gimlet Labs - **Company:** Gimlet Labs - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $140k–$180k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gimlet/03c2bde9-b2cf-4dc7-976a-c965eec45f9e ## Job description ## About us Gimlet is building the first multi-silicon neocloud designed for fast, efficient AI inference. We combine large-scale compute infrastructure with an execution platform that partitions AI workloads and maps each stage to the hardware best suited to run it. We work with foundation labs, hyperscalers, and AI-native companies, giving our team access to technical problems spanning frontier models, production infrastructure, and emerging hardware. ## About the role As an Executive Business Partner, you will help Gimlet’s executives and leadership team operate effectively as the company scales. You will learn how each executive works, connect priorities across the team, and clear the runway so leaders can remain focused on the company’s most important work. You will manage complex schedules, communications, travel, and follow-through while serving as a liaison among the executives you support. This role requires someone who can anticipate needs, bring structure to ambiguity, and represent Gimlet with polish and professionalism in communications with investors and other external partners. This role is based in our San Francisco office and requires a consistent on-site presence. What success looks like In the first 12-18 months, you will: - Develop a strong understanding of each executive’s priorities, responsibilities, and working style - Serve as a trusted liaison across the executives you support, ensuring information and decisions move efficiently - Manage complex calendars, meetings, and travel in a way that reflects company priorities - Anticipate needs, resolve conflicts, and remove operational friction before it slows the team down - Triage communications, draft polished responses, and ensure important matters receive timely follow-up - Track commitments, decisions, and action items across the leadership team - Improve administrative workflows and create systems that make the executive team more effective - Coordinate leadership meetings, company events, offsites, and other important moments You may be a good fit if you have - Experience supporting multiple executives or senior leaders in a startup, venture firm, or other fast-paced environment - Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate professionally with investors and external partners - Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential or sensitive matters - The ability to prioritize competing demands and adjust quickly as circumstances change - A proactive approach to identifying needs, solving problems, and following through - Comfort bringing structure to ambiguous or loosely defined situations - The ability to work on-site in Gimlet’s San Francisco office Strong candidates may also have - Experience supporting founders or a fast-growing executive team - Experience coordinating complex domestic and international travel - Experience working with investors, board members, customers, or other senior external stakeholders - A track record of building administrative systems and improving executive workflows - Experience planning leadership meetings, company events, or team offsites Why join now? Gimlet is expanding from its core technology into a production neocloud spanning new hardware, customers, and data centers. - Solve hard problems. - Own meaningful work. - Build for production. - Help define what’s next. Agency Policy: Gimlet Labs does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited resumes submitted without a signed agreement will be considered the property of Gimlet Labs, and no fees will be paid. ## About Gimlet Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab building next-generation AI infrastructure, specifically a multi-silicon inference cloud that optimizes and orchestrates AI agent workloads across diverse hardware. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Zain Asgar (CEO), Michelle Nguyen, Natalie Serrino, Omid Azizi ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Software Development - **Target customers**: Large AI model labs, data centers, and enterprises running complex AI agent workloads (B2B, Enterprise). - **Mission or purpose statement**: To build next-generation AI infrastructure that makes AI workloads 10x more efficient by intelligently orchestrating them across diverse hardware. ## Products & Services - **Gimlet Cloud**: A serverless inference platform for AI agents. It allows users to run everything from simple agents to complex multi-agent systems with custom logic and data sources. The platform handles scheduling, orchestration, and optimization across diverse hardware. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/) - **kforge**: An autonomous kernel generation tool that creates optimized low-level kernels directly from PyTorch. It uses a multi-agent system to explore designs, enforce correctness, and identify the fastest kernels for backends like CUDA, ROCm, and Metal. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/) - **Multi-Silicon Inference Cloud**: A software layer that allows AI workloads to be simultaneously run across diverse types of hardware (CPUs, GPUs, high-memory systems), splitting work to use the best chip for each portion of the model. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $92M (Seed: $12M led by Factory; Series A: $80M led by Menlo Ventures). The company publicly launched with eight-figure revenues (at least $10M). [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures (Series A lead), Factory (Seed lead), Eclipse Ventures, Prosperity7, Triatomic. Angel investors include Sequoia’s Bill Coughran, Stanford Professor Nick McKeown, former VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram, and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Chip partners include NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras, and d-Matrix. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) - **Growth Signals**: The company publicly launched with eight-figure revenues (at least $10M). Customer base has more than doubled in the last four months, including a major model maker and a large cloud computing company. Headcount has grown 966.7% year-over-year to 25-30 employees. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs) ## Competitive Advantages - **Multi-Silicon Orchestration**: The only platform that can simultaneously run AI workloads across diverse hardware (CPUs, GPUs, high-memory systems), splitting models to use the best chip for each portion. This claims to improve inference speed by 3x-10x for the same cost and power. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) - **Autonomous Kernel Generation (kforge)**: Uses AI agents to automatically generate optimized low-level kernels from PyTorch, supporting CUDA, ROCm, and Metal without manual coding. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/) - **Deep Research Focus**: As an applied research lab, they are working on cutting-edge problems like universal AI compilers, SLA-aware scheduling, and headless hardware architectures, giving them a long-term technological moat. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/) - **Strong Founding Team**: Founders have deep expertise in systems and infrastructure, with a prior successful exit (Pixie Labs acquired by New Relic). [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) ## Strategic Focus - **Productizing Research**: Translating cutting-edge research (universal AI compilers, autonomous kernel generation) into commercial products like Gimlet Cloud and kforge. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/) - **Scaling the Multi-Silicon Cloud**: Expanding their inference cloud to serve the largest AI model labs and data centers, with a focus on efficiency and cost reduction. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across AI research, kernel/GPU performance, compilers, distributed systems, and business operations to support rapid growth. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gimlet) ## Why Work Here - **Cutting-Edge Research & Engineering**: Work on fundamental AI infrastructure problems—autonomous kernel generation, universal AI compilers, and multi-silicon orchestration—alongside PhD-level researchers and top-tier engineers. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/join_us) - **High-Growth Environment**: The company has grown nearly 10x in headcount over the past year and is backed by top-tier VCs (Menlo Ventures, Sequoia angels). This is an early-stage opportunity with significant impact. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs) - **Fast-Moving Team**: Described as a "fast moving team with both AI research and industry expertise," looking for "builders" who love rapid prototyping. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/join_us) - **Location**: Based in San Francisco, California. The office is at 255 Potrero Ave. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs) - **Culture**: The company values researchers, builders, and strategists. The team includes alumni from Pixie Labs, Amazon, Google, AMD, Intel, and Groq. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs) ## Sources 1. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/) 2. [gimletlabs.ai/join_us](https://gimletlabs.ai/join_us) 3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gimlet) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs) 5. 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