About Distyl
Distyl partners with the Global Fortune 1000 to lead $100M+ transformations through AI-native automation of core operations. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, and Coatue, we operate like a special ops team: fast, outcome-driven, and focused on solving high-stakes enterprise challenges. Our team blends elite talent from tech, strategy, and government to build the future of AI-powered enterprise operations.
About the Role
Partner with the CEO to define, research, and articulate the foundational theses that shape how the world’s largest enterprises understand and adopt AI transformation.
Own and operate Dialogues, Distyl’s content and media platform for exploring and publishing these ideas — turning deep, first-principles thinking into frameworks that drive market leadership and responsible change.
Profile Summary
A unique profile that can operate at the intersection of philosophy, systems thinking, and operational adeptness.
An ideological requirement to do the right thing and an inherent requirement for fairness in society.
Commercially grounded: can translate abstract theses into strategic narratives that drive enterprise action.
Exceptional communicator — equally comfortable drafting essays, frameworks, or moderating conversations with global leaders.
Understands that ideas are a go-to-market weapon and can scale through storytelling.
Typical backgrounds:
Ex-VC, strategist, or partner from a top tech firm.
Researcher or writer who has an intense need for impact and building.
Someone who has published or spoken publicly on technology, systems, or the philosophy of intelligence — and now wants to operationalize those ideas.
Core Responsibilities
Thesis Development
Research and articulate frameworks on key enterprise AI topics — e.g., AI-native transformation, determinism, reasoning , and autonomy — and the socio-technological controls and interfaces around each of them.Narrative Strategy
Translate these frameworks into executive-level narratives used across GTM, investor communication, and public positioning.Dialogues Platform Ownership
Define the editorial and research agenda for Distyl Dialogues — ensuring every piece ladders up to Distyl’s core theses.
Curate and host conversations with enterprise leaders, philosophers, and technologists, distilling them into essays, videos, and frameworks.
Build the audience and influence of Dialogues through content syndication, speaking opportunities, and thought-partnerships.
Ensure Dialogues acts as the front door to Distyl’s mind — a platform that informs, inspires, and differentiates.
Thought Leadership Development
Ghostwrite or co-develop essays, presentations, and speaking content with the CEO and senior leadership.Market Synthesis
Continuously identify and analyze emerging AI transformation patterns across industries, connecting them to Distyl’s strategic positioning.Intellectual Leverage
Build repeatable mechanisms for turning these ideas into scalable frameworks, training materials, and executive sales assets.
Ideal Qualities
Systems-level thinker with the ability to toggle between philosophy and operating models.
Writes with clarity, precision, and narrative force.
Confident enough to challenge senior leadership thinking; humble enough to sharpen it through rigor.
Understands how to commercialize ideas — how narrative becomes differentiation and differentiation becomes revenue.
Possesses range: can read Hegel at breakfast, debate a Fortune 50 COO before lunch, and run a standup with a team of operators over tea.
