AI Strategy & Operations Associate

AI Strategy & Ops Associate, AI Academy - Copenhagen (on-site, full-time) At Light, we're redefining how software is built, how it's delivered, and how it works. We're building organic software. Software that heals itself. Software that adapts to the user and the business. Software that learns and gets better as it's used. Our starting point is finance. Companies including Legora, Lovable, and Fuse Energy already run on Light. We're building towards a platform that understands how each business operates and evolves with it. The AI Academy The AI Academy is where Light builds its future leaders for an ever-changing world. It's a small cohort of exceptional early-career people who take an operating process in marketing, sales, finance, partnerships, customer success, product or any other team, and rebuild it so AI agents do the work and humans handle the exceptions. Then they move on to the next one. We believe roles will increasingly merge, and that cross-functional collaboration and broad knowledge of the business will define high-performing teams. The Academy is built around that:

• Training. You start with a period of training on how to use AI in your own work: tools, agents, automations, and how to judge their output.
• Several functions at once. You then apply it across several functions, splitting your time between teams such as marketing, sales, finance, partnerships, customer success and product.
• Focus. Over time you move into fewer functions, where you've had the most impact and want to go deepest.

As an AI Strategy & Ops Associate, you're a member of Light's AI Academy. You'll undergo specialised AI training and be pushed to use AI in every aspect of your job and to redo the status quo. You'll work directly with the teams: map how work actually gets done, find where time and errors pile up, build the agents and workflows that remove them, and measure the result. What works becomes the playbook we use internally and bring to customers. Who this is for You must meet this requirement: an exceptional level of achievement in a highly competitive endeavour. For example:

• A gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) or International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)
• Experience at McKinsey QuantumBlack, the Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group and TMT, or Optiver
• Having built or sold a company
• Competed in elite-level sport (e.g. a sub-8-hour Ironman, the Olympic Games, or a European or World Championship)
• A FIDE chess rating of 2,400 or higher (International Master level)
• An equivalent level of achievement in another highly competitive endeavour

If you're applying with an equivalent achievement, explain the competition or field, your result, and the standard required to achieve it. If you don't have an equivalent level of achievement we encourage you to not apply. Our bar at Light is high, and this is more than just a job. You will need the curiosity to explore unfamiliar areas, the willingness to go the extra mile to get things right, the discipline to test your assumptions, and the persistence to keep going when your first approach does not work. We hold two bars: outperforming your metrics, and being kind and supportive of each other. Exceptional ability without kindness is not a fit. What you'll work on You'll have access to our systems, real business problems, and every AI tool available. Your work will help make our teams more capable and reliable.

• Rethink work from first principles. Take a process in marketing, sales, finance, partnerships, customer success, or product. Ask what outcome it exists to deliver, and redesign it around what AI now makes possible. Making the old process faster is the easy part.
• Own operations end to end. Take full ownership of processes across finance operations, people operations, and legal and compliance, working directly with the Chief of Staff. Run them, then rebuild them so agents do the work and nothing falls through the cracks.
• Build the agents and workflows yourself. Identify where manual work can be automated or standardised, and build the solution rather than waiting for someone else to do so.
• Move fast. Ship a first version in hours, not weeks, and iterate several times a day.
• Investigate before you build. When a number moves or a process fails, establish the cause with data before proposing a fix.
• Raise AI adoption across Light. Show each team what changes when they work differently, and stay with them until the new way of working sticks.
• Participate in the AI Academy. Complete the specialised AI training, apply what you learn in every function you work in, and share what worked and what didn't so the rest of the cohort and the teams can adopt it.
• Own projects through delivery. Scope the problem, build the solution, debug regressions, and follow through until the team can rely on what you've shipped.

You'll work alongside exceptional colleagues. What else we're looking for

• Strong analytical ability.
• Something you've built beyond coursework or your job description: a workflow, agent, tool, or process that does useful work.
• Evidence that you've used AI to change how work gets done, not only to answer questions.
• A habit of investigating why something failed and testing whether your fix addresses the cause.
• Clear thinking and the ability to explain your decisions, including what you tried and why it didn't work.
• Kindness. You make the people around you better.

How we'll measure success Your work should produce measurable improvements: hours of manual work removed, processes that run in minutes instead of days, spotless data, reporting and analysis, fewer errors reaching customers, and teams that work differently because of what you built. Every project starts with a metric and a target. You'll help define them and use them to assess what you build. What you'll get

• Full-time compensation above the standard market rate.
• Every tool available. We give everyone in the Academy access to all the AI tools on the market, and put you in the environment that will make you a success.
• A role based in our Copenhagen office, working alongside the teams and the AI Academy cohort.
• Ownership from your first day, with a path to owning a function.

How to apply Send your CV. Include a link to, or a description of, something you've built. Tell us what it does, which parts you built yourself, where it failed, and how you fixed it. Then explain why you want to join the AI Academy at Light. We want to understand how you think, what you can build, and what you're ready to take on next. Light is an equal opportunity employer.