Location: Remote (with occasional travel as needed)

Company Overview:

At Shaper Capital, we’re on a mission to partner with incredible people to build companies that shape the world. Shaper Capital was founded by Travis May, who led the two biggest data companies created in the last 20 years (LiveRamp and Datavant); we’ve launched six companies over the past year, creating data businesses that follow similar playbooks across industries.

By joining Shaper today, you’ll be part of a small, ambitious team driven by the belief that the world’s greatest problems have yet to be solved and the most transformative companies have yet to be built. We empower our portfolio companies to create businesses that transform industries, and we believe in hiring individuals who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in hiring high-potential and humble individuals who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can rapidly grow their responsibilities as we reimagine company creation.

Role Overview:

Venture Builder-in-Residence
(Think: a rotational fellowship for the next generation of founders and operators.)

As a Venture Builder-in-Residence, you’ll plug directly into Shaper Capital’s portfolio companies to tackle the most urgent, high-impact business priorities. Whether it’s helping a founder stand up a new business vertical, scaling critical ops during a period of hypergrowth, exploring new M&A opportunities, or launching a zero-to-one product initiative, you’ll be on the front lines of building. This role is designed as a rotational program—when one critical initiative is complete, you’ll move to the next.

Over time, you'll have the opportunity to embed permanently within a portfolio company, or even start a Shaper-backed company of your own.

This is a unique opportunity for an exceptional, athletic generalist to accelerate their trajectory by working across multiple early-stage companies, getting direct exposure to top-tier founders, investors, and operators, and learning how great companies are built from the inside.

Key Responsibilities:

• Embed with Portfolio Companies: Join a Shaper-backed startup for a high-priority tour of duty—owning special projects, stepping in during moments of scale, or helping unlock critical growth levers. You’ll be deployed where your impact is most needed.
  
  
• Tackle Ambiguous, High-Leverage Work: Lead projects with unclear ownership and high business value—standing up new products, streamlining operations, building financial models, or testing go-to-market strategies.
  
  
• Cross-Company Exposure: Rotate across multiple portfolio companies to rapidly build pattern recognition and context around what makes early-stage startups succeed (or fail).
  
  
• Pressure Test and Scale Ideas: Work closely with founders and Shaper leadership to pressure test key initiatives, bring structure to chaos, and turn half-baked ideas into shippable outcomes.
  
  
• Explore the Frontier of Company Creation: Contribute to ideation and early diligence for potential new Shaper companies. If a new company idea emerges from your rotation, you may lead its development as a future founder or founding team member.
  
  

Key Qualifications:

• Experience:
  
  
• Ideally, you have experience in a high-impact role at a high-growth, early-stage, technology company or have started a company of your own
• Skillset:
  
  
• Generalist excellence: You pick things up quickly, execute ruthlessly, and learn even faster.
  
  
• Builder mindset: Your entrepreneurial, love zero-to-one environments, take ownership, and bring scrappy energy to your work.
  
  
• Structured thinker: You break down problems clearly and communicate actionable insights.
  
  
• High agency: You don’t wait for permission; you see gaps and fill them.
  
  
• Strong operator: You can manage complex projects across stakeholders and disciplines.
• Highly adaptable: Thrives in a fast-paced, scrappy environment. Comfortable with ambiguity and able to operate effectively with limited direction.
• Low ego, high ownership: Willing to dive into the details while maintaining strategic oversight.
  
  
• Passion for data and startups: You’re curious about the data economy and eager to work with founders solving novel problems in this space.
  
  
• Culture fit: Alignment with our motto of hiring people who are smart, nice, and get things done. Ability to work effectively in a remote-first, distributed team environment. Collaborative, proactive, and excited to work across multiple teams and industries. High integrity and a strong moral compass.
  
  

What We Offer:

• A rare opportunity to work across a portfolio of cutting-edge, venture-backed startups solving meaningful problems with data.
  
  
• Fast-track career acceleration through high-ownership roles and proximity to exceptional founders and operators.
  
  
• Founding opportunity potential—the chance to incubate your own idea and launch a Shaper company in the future.
  
  
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
  
  
• A world-class peer group and the chance to join a tight-knit, ambitious, and collaborative team.
  
  

How to Apply:

To apply, please submit your resume and a short note about why you’re excited about this opportunity. If you’ve built or contributed to something meaningful (a startup, a project, a product, etc.), we’d love to hear about it.

At Shaper Capital, we’re on a mission to partner with incredible people to build companies that shape the world. Shaper Capital was founded by Travis May, who led the two biggest data companies created in the last 20 years (LiveRamp and Datavant); we’ve launched six companies over the past year, creating data businesses that follow similar playbooks across industries.

By joining Shaper today, you’ll be part of a small, ambitious team driven by the belief that the world’s greatest problems have yet to be solved and the most transformative companies have yet to be built. We empower our portfolio companies to create businesses that transform industries, and we believe in hiring individuals who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in hiring high potential and humble individuals who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can rapidly grow their responsibilities as we reimagine company creation.

The Shaper portfolio is always interested in meeting elite talent. While there may not be an immediate open role in a portfolio company, we'd love to hear from high-caliber talent interested in joining one of our incredible companies. If you have a business or operational background and are interested in the functions below, express your interest by sharing your information, and we'll be in touch when there's an opportunity in the portfolio that matches your skillsets. 

- Business Operations

- Corporate Strategy & Development

- Finance

- Human Resources

- Legal

We are looking for Shapers to help create and lead exceptional companies. We aspire to build the highest-performing team in the world by bringing together ambitious people who are smart, nice, and get things done.

Shaper Capital and its portfolio companies are hiring for many roles, including but not limited to:

• Shaper Fellows & CEOs — relentlessly entrepreneurial, ridiculously ambitious, brilliant, and ethical leaders who can help launch businesses, turn ideas into execution, and lead companies as they scale.

• Operations Partners — help us build the infrastructure for building and shaping companies.

• Software Engineers & Product Managers — for our portfolio of companies.

• Other — What are you exceptional at? Write your own job description.

All Shapers receive equity in the businesses they build. Our objective is to create the most competitive risk-reward package, the biggest opportunity to shape industries, and the best environment in the world for personal growth. We do this by pairing Shapers with business ideas that we are uniquely positioned to pursue, supplying the capital and assets needed for rapid growth, and providing hands-on support in building a business.

Location: Remote (with occasional travel as needed)

Company Overview: At Shaper, we’re on a mission to build groundbreaking data companies that shape the world. By joining Shaper today, you’ll be joining a small team of people who believe the world’s greatest problems have yet to be solved, the greatest companies have yet to be built, and that Shapers can help build them. Shaper was founded in 2023 and we’ve launched seven portfolio companies over the past two years, creating companies that solve data fragmentation issues across industries. By joining our team, you'll be part of a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment where innovation thrives, and impact is the norm. We believe in empowering our portfolio companies to create businesses that shape industries and improve the world. Our portfolio companies include Arbital Health, BEAMRail, Catena Clearing, Fractional AI, Protege, Zenith Health and Adelphi Data. 

Our mantra is simple: we look for people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We hire individuals who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and are passionate about building high-impact companies. We invest in our people and believe in hiring high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as we reimagine company creation. You need to be scrappy and willing to role up your sleeves from day one. 

Role Overview: We are seeking a dynamic, high-performing Head of Talent Acquisition to establish and lead a world-class recruiting function that attracts top talent across our entire portfolio. Reporting into our COO, you’ll build the engine that helps Shaper's companies find founding and executive talent fast and reliably, and make Shaper the place that every builder wants to join. This is a high-agency, high-impact work - owning the full founding hire playbook in support of our CEOs at launch while scaling a platform for executive, generalist, and technical talent across the portfolio. 

For founding teams, you will be responsible for the entire recruiting lifecycle for our CEOs, including sourcing, managing external recruiters, interviewing, process design, and running end-to-end hiring processes across diverse roles and industries; this will include both technical and business roles. Your efforts will ensure we build a network of the brightest and best talent—people who are smart, nice, and get things done.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own Founding Hire Sprint: when Shaper launches a new company, you'll fully own talent acquisition for the first ten roles. You'll develop role specs, own sourcing, scorecards, offer, and close playbook.
• Create a Robust Pipeline for Executive + High-Agency Generalist Roles: As our companies grow past seed stage, you'll partner with them by sourcing and cultivating a strong network of executive and generalist talent - you'll build first-pass slates, curate shortlist, and match game-changers who thrive in ambiguity to the roles that energize them. 
• Scale our unique Builder in Residence Program: Shaper differentiates itself through its bench of incredible generalist builders who can parachute in and support our portfolio companies with an outsize impact. You'll scale hiring for this program. 
• External Recruiter Management: You'll also build, curate and manage a bench of preferred recruiters, sourcers, agencies, and technical resources for our portfolio companies. 
• Employer Branding: Work closely with leadership to enhance and promote Shaper’s brand, making us a talent magnet for top performers in the data and tech industries.
• Standardize hiring playbooks and maintain KPIs: You'll create a library of JD templates, outreach cadences, interview loops, reference/back-channel processes, offer kits and comp benchmarking, and maintain KPIs that you report on weekly across work-streams. 

Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Experience sourcing and recruiting for roles at early stage technology companies is a requirement. Ideally you have experience recruiting both business and technical roles, and demonstrated success placing founding engineers and executives. 
• Expertise. Proven track record in building and leading recruiting functions, particularly within fast-paced, high-growth environments. Deep understanding of technical and business roles in data-driven industries. Expert at sourcing and happy to spend significant time sourcing.
• Skills: Exceptional sourcing and networking abilities, with a knack for identifying top talent that fits both the role and company culture. Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities. excellent stakeholder management - comfortable coaching CEOs to interview and close. 
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for building from scratch. Thrives in a fast-paced, scrappy environment. Comfortable with ambiguity, change and iteration. Able to operate effectively with limited direction. You’re willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done. High integrity and a strong moral compass.
• Builder Mentality: Bias for action and high ownership. 
• Culture Fit: Alignment with our motto of hiring people who are smart, nice, and get things done. Ability to work effectively in a remote-first, distributed team environment.

What We Offer:

• A unique opportunity to build and shape the recruiting function within the cutting-edge Shaper environment;
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• The chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry and make a tangible impact on the companies we build.

How to Apply: Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are excited about this opportunity.

Job Title: CFO-in-Residence

Location: Remote (with occasional travel as needed)

Company Overview: At Shaper Capital, we’re on a mission to partner with incredible people to build companies that shape the world. Shaper Capital was founded by Travis May, who led the two biggest data companies created in the last 20 years (LiveRamp and Datavant); we’ve launched six companies over the past year, creating data businesses that follow similar playbooks across industries.

By joining Shaper today, you’ll be part of a small, ambitious team driven by the belief that the world’s greatest problems have yet to be solved and the most transformative companies have yet to be built. We empower our portfolio companies to create businesses that transform industries, and we believe in hiring individuals who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in hiring high potential and humble individuals who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can rapidly grow their responsibilities as we reimagine company creation.

Role Overview: 

We’re building a “CFO-in-Residence” program to identify and cultivate the next wave of finance leaders for Shaper’s portfolio. This is a unique opportunity for strategic finance professionals to work across multiple early-stage, venture-backed startups—initially supporting them on a fractional basis, and over time, growing into full-time Head of Finance or CFO roles as mutual fit emerges.

As CFO-in-Residence, you’ll partner closely with founders to build the financial foundation of their companies. You might help close a fundraise, set up financial systems, build operating models, or shape pricing and monetization strategies. Each tour of duty is high-leverage, fast-paced, and critical to company success.

This role requires someone who thrives in early-stage environments, is eager to solve complex financial challenges, and is comfortable operating both at a strategic level and in the financial trenches.

Key Responsibilities:

• Embed with Portfolio Companies: Serve as a fractional Head of Finance or strategic finance partner to 1–2 Shaper-backed companies at a time, supporting mission-critical needs during moments of growth, fundraising, or operational scale-up.
• Own Core Finance Functions: Stand up or refine financial systems, develop budgets, forecasts, and dashboards, and help establish key KPIs to support board-level reporting and decision-making.
• Support Fundraising: Partner with founders on modeling, storytelling, data room readiness, and investor Q&A
• Build Scalable Infrastructure: Lay the groundwork for long-term success by establishing best practices in financial operations, cash management, vendor selection, and compliance.
• Strategic Projects: Lead one-off strategic finance initiatives, including pricing strategy, cap table modeling, M&A diligence, cost optimization, or international expansion planning.
• Grow Into Permanent Roles: Over time, transition into a full-time CFO or Head of Finance position within a portfolio company that’s the right mutual fit.

Key Qualifications:

Experience:

• 5–10 years of progressive finance experience, ideally including:
• Early-stage startup finance leadership (Head of Finance, VP Finance, etc.)
• Investment banking, FP&A, private equity, venture capital, or Big 4 accounting
• Experience supporting venture-backed tech startups is strongly preferred
  
  

Skillset:

• Finance Excellence: Strong command of financial modeling, forecasting, accounting, and SaaS metrics
• Builder Mindset: Comfortable operating in zero-to-one environments with limited structure
• Operational Rigor: Ability to implement financial systems and processes that scale
• Strategic Thinking: Able to connect financial insights to broader business strategy
• High Ownership: Willing to roll up sleeves while maintaining strategic oversight
• Low Ego, High Trust: Collaborative team player who earns the confidence of founders quickly
  
  

Culture Fit:

• Excited to work in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
• Mission-aligned and motivated to help build meaningful, data-driven companies
• Embody Shaper’s values: smart, nice, and get things done

What We Offer:

• A fast-track path to a CFO role at a breakout startup
• The unique opportunity to shape the future of Shaper Capital and its portfolio companies.
• A dynamic, fast-paced environment where your impact is immediate and meaningful.
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.
• The chance to work alongside some of the brightest minds in venture and entrepreneurship.

How to Apply: Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are excited about this opportunity.