HQ in Milan · Travel required · Direct report to the CEO 1-2 years work experience minimum in growth roles https://www.ratel.sh/ https://github.com/ratel-ai/ratel

About Ratel

Agentic AI is transforming how software gets built, at a pace and depth no technology before it has matched. This is a once-in-a-generation opening for a new layer of software infrastructure to emerge. Ratel is going after it, positioning as a key infrastructure provider for how software will be built and scaled in the agentic era.

• The problem we solve: tool and skill overload. Every tool, skill and instruction an agent could reach for sits in its prompt, paid for on every single call and quietly making the model worse at choosing between them. Past a certain point, adding capability starts subtracting reliability
• What Ratel does: it keeps the whole catalog out of the prompt and gives the agent only what the turn in front of it actually needs. And it learns, watching what the agent really invokes and re-ranking the catalog around those recurring intents, so retrieval gets sharper at every run. In production we've cut up to 95% of tokens
• Where are we at: raised a pre-seed in May 2026, onboarded first customers in Italy and US with 3k+ daily users interacting with a “ratel-powered” agent. Ongoing product and GTM experiments to find best fit in the market to double down for hyper-growth.

Everyone else treats an agent's catalog as code. We treat it as data.

• CEO (Giacomo Nicoli), ex-BCG; leads strategy, growth, and fundraising
• CTO (Roberto Stagi), ex-Bending Spoons senior developer; leads product & community runs one of the highest-profile global communities of AI builders.

Why the name “Ratel”? See below 👇

TL;DR;

You work directly with the founders in setting-up and advancing growth initiatives for our open source and cloud offering. There is not a single way to nail this in such an early phase while creating a community motion. You are the person that boosts the pace at which we run trials and errors across the growth funnel.

As we move across phases, you will be the person structuring with the founders the way we go about the market. And no, we are not (yet) an outreach heavy type of business so you gotta be creative.

Who you are

• A growth operator at heart with a creative mind: you've driven traction, not just planned it
• Zero-to-one experience, having tried, failed, scaled growth initiatives as a founder or early employee
• A very structured and proactive operator, proposing and driving initiatives independently
• Curious and passionate about what we are building and the problem that we are solving