Founding Public Sector GTM & Partnerships Lead - Europe

About

Governments and policymakers make decisions that shape millions of lives, but they still operate with slow research cycles, fragmented evidence, and expensive consultant reports that often arrive only after programs have launched. We believe AI can help public institutions make better decisions: faster, more evidence-based, more responsive, and more accountable to the people they serve.

Our platform helps public institutions synthesize evidence, simulate how policy choices may affect people, budgets, and outcomes before rollout, monitor real-world results, and continuously improve decisions over time.

We closed a $5.7M seed round earlier this year, led by Relentless, with participation from a16z speedrun, Liquid 2, Operator Collective, Entourage, Station F, Plug and Play and others. We are now scaling across the US and Europe and hiring founding team members to help build a new category at the intersection of AI, simulation, public policy, and institutional decision-making.

Job Description

The role

Prior Foundry is creating a new category of decision intelligence for governments and public-sector organizations. Our early customers are trying to answer questions that existing tools do not handle well: how people will respond to a new policy, where implementation might break down, which communities will be affected differently, and what tradeoffs decision-makers should understand before acting.

You’ll help turn that demand into a repeatable GTM motion. This is a hybrid role: part public-sector GTM lead, part policy strategist, part deployment operator. You’ll work directly with founders to identify high-value use cases, turn exploratory conversations into demos and pilots, build strategic partnerships, and translate customer needs into product direction.

Day to day, you'll:

  • Own the early public-sector GTM motion from first signal through paid pilot to signed contract: sourcing opportunities, qualifying use cases, running discovery, shaping proposals, and moving conversations toward concrete next steps.

  • Build relationships with governments, public agencies, foundations, public-sector consultancies, research and evaluation firms, and enterprise policy teams.

  • Translate broad policy or institutional questions into concrete demo flows, pilot scopes, proof-of-value engagements, and implementation plans.

  • Map the market and routes to revenue: buyer segments, budgets, procurement paths, RFPs/tenders, grant-funded pilots, partner channels, and repeatable entry points.

  • Create the materials that make a new category legible: use-case briefs, demo narratives, outbound language, proposal language, case studies, and executive-facing follow-ups.

  • Synthesize customer conversations into product priorities, positioning, pricing, and GTM strategy.

Preferred Experience

You're a fit if you

  • You're a fit if you

    • Have 3-6+ years of experience in GTM, strategic partnerships, business development, consulting, or similarly customer-facing roles.
    • Have direct experience working with or selling into government, public agencies, public-sector consultancies, foundations, policy institutions in the US and/or Europe. You can speak credibly with senior policy, government, foundation, consulting, and enterprise stakeholders.
    • Have strong commercial instincts and understand how public-sector opportunities move: buyers, budgets, procurement paths, RFPs/tenders, pilots, grants, partner channels, and the difference between interesting conversations and funded priorities.
    • Are an excellent writer and communicator, able to turn technical capabilities into clear buyer value, proposal language, and executive-facing materials.
    • Are comfortable moving between strategy and execution: taking the call, writing the follow-up, shaping the pilot, building the one-pager, and pushing the process forward.
    • Can operate in ambiguity, create structure where no playbook exists, and work directly with founders in an early-stage environment.

    Nice to have

    • Existing network across government, public-sector consultancies and evaluation firms, civic-tech organizations, or policy institutions.
    • Experience at a govtech, civic-tech, or public-sector SaaS company.
    • Background in policy, economics, political science, public administration, or social science.
    • Strong writing about policy, AI, public-sector transformation, or institutional decision-making.

Recruitment Process

Our process is lightweight and designed to help both sides assess fit quickly. It typically includes an initial conversation with a founder, a deeper role-specific interview, and a short practical exercise or case discussion. Finalists meet all founders before we make an offer.

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Possible partial remote
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