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We're assembling the founding team to build Lucy — the AI coaching platform that closes the gap between AI promise and real human capability. This is early-stage, high-ownership work for people who build things that matter.
Why This Work Matters
The Problem
Most people now have access to AI tools. What they lack is the coaching, context, and workflow integration to build durable capability. The result: activity without impact, tools without transformation. That's the gap Lucy closes.
The Opportunity
Lucy Labs is building the layer between humans and AI that makes the difference between AI-assisted searching and AI-enabled solution building. The people who join now will shape that infrastructure — and the category — from scratch.
Founder-Led
Lucy Labs was founded by Travis Sheppard after 20+ years leading transformation inside real companies — building and scaling businesses, delivering measurable outcomes, and leading teams through complexity. You'll work directly with a founder who uses AI daily as a thinking and execution partner, and who cares deeply about people, trust, and long-term capability.
Who We're Looking For
Trait 1
People who create, refine, and improve systems. Who finish things. Who treat incomplete work as an invitation to improve it, not a reason to wait.
Trait 2
Able to see patterns and connect dots across domains. Who understand that individual changes have ripple effects and design with upstream and downstream consequences in mind.
Trait 3
Curious, pragmatic, and eager to experiment. You don't wait for tools to be proven — you figure out what they're good for and build new capability around them.
Trait 4
Motivated by impact, not just compensation. You care how humans adapt to change and want your work to measurably expand what people and organizations can do.
Trait 5
You already use modern AI tools to amplify your own work — not because you were told to, but because you saw the leverage and ran with it. Lucy's team walks the talk.
Trait 6
You know the difference between activity and impact. You document what works and what doesn't, then improve the system. Truth over comfort, always.
Operating Principles
We move quickly with intention. Progress comes from getting something directionally right, learning from real use, and improving what matters most.
Human judgment stays central for meaningful decisions. We build AI systems that increase agency, not reduce it. This is non-negotiable in the product and in how we work internally.
We ship, learn, and iterate. You'll encounter ambiguity and incomplete systems — not as flaws, but as invitations. We hire people who know when precision matters and when momentum matters more.
We document what works and what doesn't, then improve the system. Clarity over hype. Outcomes over optics. We say hard things when they need to be said.
We're globally distributed. Written communication is our source of truth. Weekly alignment, monthly reflection, quarterly focus. Clear goals, visible progress — no performative busy-work.
Growth & Ownership
Ground-Floor Impact
Early employees directly influence product direction, culture, and company strategy. Your decisions persist. Your fingerprints are on the architecture. That's not a figure of speech at this stage.
Ownership
Meaningful equity for early contributors. Competitive, market-aligned base salary. Advancement tied to impact, ownership, and results — not tenure. We reward people who build durable value.
Career Acceleration
Develop deep AI-augmented work fluency. See your work directly affect customers and company outcomes. Your growth compounds as the company grows. This is the kind of experience that defines careers.
Open Roles
We're building a small, high-caliber founding team across two phases. Each role has a full description available on request.
Immediate · Months 1–6
Engineering & Leadership
Own technical architecture, engineering culture, and team building. The person who turns product vision into reliable, scalable systems.
Express InterestEngineering
Web platform and desktop agent foundations. Own end-to-end feature delivery — from UI through to backend and AI integration — at the earliest stage.
Express InterestProduct
Own discovery, prioritization, and customer learning loops. Translate real workflow constraints into product decisions. The connective tissue between users and builders.
Express InterestNear-Term · Months 7–12
Engineering & AI
Build the coaching intelligence, scoring, and recommendation systems that make Lucy proactive. ML/AI product experience strongly valued.
Express InterestSales & GTM
Own early GTM and customer partnerships. Build the playbook from scratch alongside a founder who has sold and delivered transformation at scale.
Express InterestProduct & Research
Own tools, techniques, and capability discovery. Identify where AI unlocks the most leverage for users and bring that insight back into the product.
Express InterestIt's for people who want to build something meaningful, learn constantly, move fast without losing integrity, and help shape how humans and AI work together.
If that resonates — even if you don't see your exact role above — we'd love to hear from you.