Accelerate Your Growth in an
AI-Driven World
Our core mission is to accelerate our learning loops, empowering our team to grow and evolve at AI speed. In a rapidly changing landscape, we prioritize adaptability, curiosity, and collaboration above all else.
Build → Learn → Evolve → Thrive
What Drives Us
We're here to serve customers, create meaningful impact, learn and grow together, celebrate wins, have fun along the way, and genuinely support each other. We build thoughtfully without corporate politics, unnecessary meetings, or bureaucracy slowing us down.
We aim for sustainable impact, working focused weeks. We prioritize direct customer connections, quick iterations, and mutual growth. Politics, ego, and unnecessary complexity simply don't have a place here.
Shoshin: Embrace Curiosity
We champion the spirit of Shoshin—approaching every challenge with openness and genuine curiosity. AI continuously reshapes possibilities, and our commitment to learning ensures we remain agile and receptive to innovation.
"In the beginner's mind, there are endless possibilities; in the expert's mind, only a few."
We value fresh perspectives, questions, and ideas that challenge the status quo.
Our Five Values
Energetic
Bring positivity and momentum. We create an environment where enthusiasm and energy flourish, turning good ideas into great outcomes. Your contributions here energize others and drive collective success.
Hungry
Seek meaningful impact. We pursue projects that truly matter, driven by purpose and a shared desire for excellence. Here, ambition meets meaningful work, and your efforts directly contribute to significant achievements.
Bias to Action
Act confidently, learn quickly. We value initiative and decisiveness, knowing that real-world experience is the best teacher. We support bold moves, iterative improvements, and the courage to try something new.
Fluid Grit
Adapt gracefully, persist thoughtfully. We respond to change positively and resiliently. Our strength lies in flexibility, collaboration, and the willingness to adjust our approach to reach shared goals. We celebrate persistence and thoughtful adjustments equally.
Operational
Stay grounded in the work. Everyone contributes directly to the tangible success of our products and customer experiences. Our culture is hands-on, supportive, and genuinely collaborative. We succeed together, close to the action and deeply engaged in outcomes.
Who Thrives Here
You'll Love It If You:
- Already use AI tools daily in your workflow
- Prefer building over talking about building
- Want direct customer impact, not layers of abstraction
- Enjoy shipping quickly and iterating thoughtfully
- Thrive with autonomy and accountability
- Value equity and a supportive founding-team environment
- Care deeply about solving challenging enterprise problems
This Isn't For You If You:
- Prefer established processes over collaboratively creating them
- Require a detailed roadmap without flexibility
- Need extensive onboarding and structured guidance
- Avoid AI tools or aren't interested in learning about them
- Value predictability over growth and discovery
- Prefer specialization over flexibility in roles
- Are looking for a large-company pace, politics, or bureaucracy
Why You'll Flourish Here
Joining 1Sphere means:
- Seeing your ideas and efforts quickly translated into real-world results
- Continuously building valuable, future-ready skills alongside supportive colleagues
- Experiencing rapid personal and professional growth in a genuinely encouraging environment
We foster an atmosphere where your achievements are celebrated, your ideas respected, and your potential fully realized.
How We Work
Direct Customer Connections
Engineers, PMs, and designers talk directly to Fortune 500 customers. No game of telephone through account managers. You hear the problems firsthand and see your solutions make an impact.
Quick Iterations
We work in focused loops: build, deploy, measure, learn, adjust. Ideas move quickly from concept to production when the data supports them, enabling rapid learning and continuous improvement.
Mutual Growth
We learn from each other, share insights openly, and grow together. Your development is our priority, and we invest in creating an environment where everyone can thrive.
Meaningful Equity
Early team members receive significant equity grants. You're not just building software—you're building a company and sharing in the upside.
Sustainable Impact
We aim for focused, productive weeks that lead to lasting results. We celebrate wins together, support each other genuinely, and build thoughtfully without unnecessary pressure or politics.
Why Now?
Enterprise AI is at an inflection point—and 1Sphere is uniquely positioned in this moment. We're building the AI infrastructure that Fortune 500 companies desperately need.
The time to join, influence, and accelerate your career is now.
Ready to Lead the Future?
We're hiring founding team members across engineering, product, GTM, and operations. If this resonates, let's talk.
Apply to Join the Founding TeamQuestions? Reach out directly at careers@1sphere.ai