Backed by Costanoa Ventures.
About the role
Get an agent into daily use inside a client's team within your first two quarters. One workflow, doing work a person did by hand the week before. Establish the baseline nobody has today. Pick the few numbers that matter, measure them honestly before you build anything, and prove the improvement against them rather than asserting it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience in a domain where the pricing and operational data is genuinely messy. You ask about the data model before you ask about the screen, and you know what a business rule looks like after ten years of being patched by hand
- You can read a process and see the data underneath it. Given two systems and a handoff between them, you can work out what each one owns, where the truth lives, what goes stale, and what breaks when a person is the integration
- Judgment about where AI belongs and where it does not. You can look at an operational workflow and say which parts an agent should own, which parts need a person, and which parts should stay deterministic because control matters more than cleverness
- You are good in a room with a customer. You can run a working session with people who have been burned by software before, and leave with them on your side
- You can hold your own with engineers without doing their job. You ask good questions about what a system can and cannot give you, and you know when "that's hard" means hard and when it means tedious
- Working Spanish is a plus. Our client pricing teams work in Spanish, and the signal you need is often in what they say to each other rather than in what gets translated for you. Not a gate if everything else is there
More about this role
Tensec is Vertical AI for cross-border trade. Trade is two flows, money and goods, and the trading companies that move them: freight forwarders, shipping lines, customs brokers, 4PLs — still run both on systems built for large corporations and a lot of manual work. Tensec is the agentic AI layer those companies use to move both flows for their importer and exporter clients: FX and payments today, quoting and booking next, trade finance to follow. Cross-border B2B is a $50 trillion market. We're building the version all global trading companies choose to use.
We started in the US, Mexico, and Brazil and are expanding globally, onboarding enterprise trading companies whose trade flows run to billions of dollars a year across every major corridor. Founded in 2023 by a team that has built and exited startups and run global teams at Meta, PayPal, Credit Karma, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Tensec is backed by world-class investors such as Quiet Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Renegade Partners, Clocktower, and WillowTree.
Getting freight across a border still runs on email and on the memory of whoever is handling it. Someone prices the request by...
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