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AI Deployment Lead at Tracelight

Are you a top-decile consultant or banker ready to jump into the AI frontier? This $3.6M Seed-funded startup, founded by a team from McKinsey and Jane Street, is building the 'Cursor for Excel' to reinvent financial modelling. As an AI Deployment Lead, you'll embed with the world’s biggest consultancies and PE megafunds to lead a generational shift in how strategic decisions are made. This is a rare opportunity to move from high-finance into a founding-team role where you'll shape both the product and the commercial engine of a future $100bn category leader.

About this role

Role overview

You will lead the transformation of knowledge workflows at the world’s largest consultancies and private equity megafunds. As a founding deployment lead, you will sit at the frontier of product and users, helping institutional clients replace legacy Excel processes with a next-generation AI operating system for strategic decision-making.

About the company

Tracelight

Tracelight

Software Development2-10 employeesLondon, United KingdomSeed (VC-backed)

Today, financial modelling is spreadsheet grunt work. We are transforming it joyous, frictionless work with AI

Backed by Chalfen Ventures, Acequia Capital, Inovo, Entrepreneur First, Charlie Songhurst, Suhit Gupta.

What you'll do

What you will do

  • Own the end-to-end adoption and account growth for top-tier global institutions, often working on-site to lead office hours and user onboarding.
  • Design and build complex high-value use cases for financial reporting, audit integrity checking, and data transformation using AI and lightweight software.
  • Partner with senior decision-makers to identify expansion opportunities and translate domain-specific pain points into critical product feedback.

Who you are

Who this is a fit for

  • 2-5 years of experience in a high-intensity environment such as top-tier Consulting, Investment Banking, or Private Equity.
  • Exceptional commercial agency and the technical aptitude to write software and instructions to customize AI workflows for clients.
  • Proven ability to build trusted relationships with sophisticated institutional users and drive organizational change through technology adoption.

Why this role

Why this role is remarkable

  • Join a founding team of 12 with pedigree from McKinsey, Jane Street, and 11x.ai at the ground floor of a $100bn+ market opportunity.
  • High-velocity traction with global institutions including half of the world's largest consultancies and top-tier PE firms.
  • Direct influence on the product roadmap, working alongside elite engineers to shape the "Cursor for Excel" and the future of financial programming.

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