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AI Enablement Lead

Upside · Austin · Remote

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About Upside

Earn every time you shop gas, grocery, or food with Upside's free top-rated app. Get cash back on everyday necessities, making your purchases more rewarding. Download and start earning today! Backed by Bessemer and General Catalyst.

About the role

Individual AI gains don't compound on their own. Shared infrastructure does.

What they're looking for

  • 5-8 years leading platform-level or 0-to-1 initiatives from ambiguity to a working roadmap, not just running isolated features or one-off projects
  • Demonstrated ability to write specs and drive prioritization across a technical program without direct authority over the people building it
  • Strong written and verbal communication: you'll be translating a fast-changing, technical platform for audiences ranging from engineers to executives
  • A "first-hire" mindset: comfortable building the roadmap and the operating rhythm for a role that doesn't have a template yet
More about this role

We created Upside to transform brick-and-mortar commerce. Our technology uses the sophistication of online retail—profit measurement, attribution, and incrementality—to provide users with more value on their everyday purchases and brick-and-mortar businesses with new, profitable customers. We’ve helped millions of users earn 2 to 3 times more cashback than any other product, and hundreds of thousands of brick-and-mortar businesses earn measurable profit. Billions of dollars in commerce run through the Upside platform every year, and that value goes directly back to our retailer partners, the consumers they serve, and important sustainability initiatives.

Individual AI gains don't compound on their own. Shared infrastructure does.

Every company right now is watching employees get faster with AI, one person and one workaround at a time. That's real, but it doesn't add up to anything durable: the gains stay locked in whoever figured out the trick, and the next person starts from zero. The organizations that pull ahead won't be the ones with the most individual AI users. They'll be the ones that turned individual AI use into shared infrastructure: connected systems, encoded company...

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