The opportunity
The $1 trillion consulting industry is powered by some of the world's brightest minds, yet they remain trapped in manual, inefficient workflows - spreadsheet orchestration, slide-deck assembly, and fragmented data synthesis. We are moving the industry from "human-plus-tools" to autonomous agency.
We don't always have an open role posted for the kind of person we want to hear from. This posting is for them.
If you're exceptional, resonate with what we're building, and want to be part of the team defining the next era of consulting - apply here. We read every application. If we don't have something that fits today, we keep strong candidates warm and reach out the moment a role opens. Some of the best people we've hired didn't apply through a posting; they applied because they wanted to be part of this, and we figured out the role together.
Why this matters
Every engagement Riplo touches makes the system smarter. The context, the judgment, the work product - all of it compounds into a knowledge layer no individual consultant or competing tool can replicate. The firms that move first on this category don't just work faster; they build a structural advantage. The next twelve months are when the category gets defined. Joining now means working on the problems that determine whether Riplo becomes the default. Not future hypotheticals - the actual decisions made this year.
Riplo was founded by ex-McK / BCG / DeepMind / Hg founding team, and emerged from stealth in March 2026 with $3.1M in pre-seed funding led by Cherry Ventures, joined by Blue Lion Capital, partners from McKinsey and BCG, the founders of QuantumBlack, and angels from OpenAI, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Hg Capital.
What you might do
You don't need to fit a posting - but it helps to know what kinds of work we tend to be hiring toward. Roles typically land in one (or more) of:
Engineering. Founding product/full-stack engineers and AI engineers. Multi-step agentic systems, evals, reliable inference, interactive product surfaces.
Product and design. Translate consulting tradecraft into product surfaces experts trust with their highest-stakes work.
Go-to-market. Founder-led sales, customer success, and partnerships across consulting firms and adjacent professional services.
Strategy and operations. Founder's-office work - fundraising support, hiring, BD, ops scaffolding, and the hundred things that have no owner yet.
Research and domain. Former consultants, IB / PE operators, or applied AI researchers with deep professional-services context.
If you don't see yourself in this list but think you'd be a force multiplier here, tell us why. We've made room for people we didn't have a role for, when the person was right.
Who we're looking for
Exceptional ability. You've demonstrated excellence - academically, professionally, or otherwise. We hire from a small range of profiles, but we hire from the top of those ranges.
Extreme ownership. You see gaps. You fill them. You don't wait to be told.
Bias to action. You'd rather ship a 90% solution this week than a perfect one next month.
High comfort with ambiguity. The role isn't fully defined. The product isn't fully defined. The category isn't fully defined. That's the point.
Sharp written and verbal communication. Your work output doesn't need editing.
Fluency with modern AI tools. You use them everywhere to accelerate your work, not as a novelty.
Conviction about the mission. You've thought about why now is the moment for AI to change knowledge work, and you want to be in the room when it does.
Fluent English.
What's in it for you
Real ownership and meaningful equity for the right candidate, regardless of role.
A front-row seat to the AI revolution with your hands on the wheel.
Direct daily access to founders who've built and backed category-defining companies.
More context, responsibility, and direct impact than people with far more senior titles at larger companies.
Elite peers - a team that has lived this problem at the highest levels of consulting, AI research, and product engineering.
Location
London is the primary base. Remote is possible only for exceptional talent.
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