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title: 'Founding Events Lead at White Circle'
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# Founding Events Lead at White Circle

- **Company:** White Circle
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $140k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whitecircle/0f1f4b80-333c-42bc-8d99-22fc6e9cf3e0

## Job description

## ABOUT WHITE CIRCLE

White Circle https://whitecircle.ai/ is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

- We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others
- We process over 100M+ API calls every month
- We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We’re at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks. You’ll be joining at the most exciting time - early enough that the equity can be life changing but at a point where demand has been proven.

We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems and build the category-defining company in AI safety - this role is for you!

## ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll be our first dedicated events/conferences hire. Your job is to build, scale and own GTM events end-to-end, as an acquisition channel.

Much of it will be coordinated remotely, for the most important ones, you’ll be there.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- ROI: Working closely with Sales to optimize for qualified meetings held, you’ll own White Circles global GTM conferences strategy end-to-end and the return on every dollar spent. Treat each event as an experiment: measure it, triple down on what works, kill what doesn't.
- Strategy: Own our conference calendar and lead our presence at conferences across the US and Europe — booths, speaking slots, sponsorships and the dinners and drinks receptions around them. Be prepared to justify why you’ve gone for any specific approach/package and not others.
- The Flagship: Build White Circle’s annual flagship event and close-door panels from zero — concept, audience, partnerships, content, on-the-day execution. Think big - ElevenLabs-Summit scale, with real capital behind it.
- Operational excellence: Vendors, budgets, logistics, run-of-show, and post-event follow-up — all handled without drop.
- AI-powered event ops: Scale a traditionally high-touch function with AI — attendee research, follow-up sequences, content repurposing — and partner with our GTM engineers to wire every event into Attio with full attribution.

## MUST HAVES

- 7+ years of relevant experience: Proven track record of generating pipeline from conferences across multiple European markets or US wide (ie. not just the UK), in B2B SaaS, infrastructure, security, developer tools, or AI
- A track record of partnering closely with sales: You operate as a peer in QBRs and pipeline reviews, translating sales priorities and account intelligence into programs that produce. You bring a clear point of view on where marketing investment will and won't drive return, and you align fast
- Flexibility to travel to key events: Prioritising when you will and won’t add value by being on site
- Comfort with an international remit: You'll coordinate events across two continents, and travel internationally for the ones that matter
- Owner mindset: Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision

## NICE TO HAVES

- High-growth experience: You've run events at a fast-growing B2B SaaS or AI company and know what good looks like
- Flagship from zero: You've designed and launched an annual flagship event from scratch — concept, audience, format, brand
- Brand & creative sensibility: You can brief a designer and have a view on every touchpoint
- Cyber Security / AI safety familiarity: You understand our buyers and space already
- A network: in AI, tech, or enterprise events circles

## COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

- Meaningful equity package
- Performance-based bonus
- All the hardware, tools, and services you need
- Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez

## HOW WE HIRE

- Intro call (30 min)
- Take-home assignment followed by debrief with Head of Revenue (60 min)
- Final conversation with our CEO (60 min)

## About White Circle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: White Circle is a control layer for AI in production, providing safety, security, evals, and performance optimization through a unified API.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Dover, Delaware, United States (operational hub in Paris, France)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Denis Shilov (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Governance, AI Security, AI Observability
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (companies deploying AI agents, chatbots, or LLM-powered applications)
- **Mission or purpose**: To give organisations visibility into how their AI behaves, help them respond when things go wrong, and provide a unified system for improving reliability, safety and compliance.

## Products & Services
- **White Circle Platform**: A single API that integrates three layers:
  - **Protect**: Custom low-latency guardrails for blocking unsafe inputs, preventing jailbreaks, detecting prompt injections, PII leakage, and sensitive data leaks.
  - **Observe**: Real-time analytics including topic classification, user behavior clustering, custom metrics, error rate analysis, sentiment analysis, and risk scoring.
  - **Improve**: Model routing, dynamic prompt engineering, context enrichment, and automated optimization based on labelled user feedback.
- **CircleGuardBench**: A proprietary benchmark for evaluating AI moderation models across harm detection, jailbreak resistance, false positives, and latency.
- **KillBench**: A benchmark of hidden LLM biases in critical decisions (life-and-death scenarios).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $11M raised in seed funding (announced May 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent AI and technology leaders including Romain Huet (ex-Head of Product @DeepMind), Dirk Kingma (Anthropic), Guillaume Lample (Mistral), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), François Chollet (Keras), Mehdi Ghissassi (ex-DeepMind), Paige Bailey (DeepMind), and David Cramer (Sentry).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 21 employees (+283.3% YoY, +9.5% monthly growth)
  - Monthly website traffic: 32,090 visits (+682.7% yearly)
  - Active job postings: 6 (monthly job posting growth +20%)
  - SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant
  - Operates in 7 countries (France, Russia, Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, Georgia, Spain)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary self-adjusting models** optimized for low-latency and high performance
- **Unified platform** that combines safety, security, evaluation, and performance optimization – no need for multiple point solutions
- **Enterprise-grade compliance** (SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA)
- **Strong network effects** from backing by leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, and Datadog
- **Automated red-teaming** and continuous improvement through user feedback

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate product development and expand the team across the US, UK, and Europe
- Grow global customer base across healthcare, finance, hiring, and security verticals
- Continue building benchmarks (CircleGuardBench, KillBench) to shape AI safety standards
- Maintain deep integration with the AI open-source ecosystem

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Smart, friendly, and fun” team with a strong engineering and research focus (43% technical staff)
- **Location**: Based in Paris, France with a hybrid work model (office + remote)
- **Benefits**:
  - Strong salary
  - 20 paid days off (plus ability to take more for recovery)
  - Free education (company covers learning costs)
  - Team offsites several times a year
- **Open roles** (June 2026): QA Engineer, Product Engineer (Backend), DevOps Engineer, Product Designer, AI Engineer (Audio), Data Engineer
- **Impact**: Build the future of AI safety at a well-funded, high-growth startup with world-class investors

## Sources
1. [whitecircle.ai](https://whitecircle.ai)
2. [whitecircle.ai/careers](https://whitecircle.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – White Circle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/whitecircle)
4. [Tech.eu – White Circle lands $11M](https://tech.eu/2026/05/12/white-circle-lands-11m-to-help-companies-secure-ai-systems/)

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