🧑💻 Webinar: How to Find a Startup Job in 2026: AI, Equity, and Why Now Is the Moment
The job market has changed. Job boards are noisy, LinkedIn is saturated, and traditional applications are increasingly automated away.
But for those who know how to move smart - using AI agents, thinking clearly about equity, and understanding what makes a startup worth joining - the opportunity has never been better.
Sophia Arora went from McKinsey to Oddity Tech to Founding Growth at Jack & Jill, an AI company that's raised $20M at seed and is redefining how people find life-fulfilling careers.
In this session, she shares exactly how she'd approach a job search in 2026 - and the AI tools, frameworks, and mindset shifts she made when transitioning from being a generalist in corporate to the startup industry.
You'll walk away with:
✅ How to let AI do the heavy lifting in your job search - a free AI agent that finds roles you'd never see on a job board, coaches you, runs mock interviews, benchmarks your salary and directly introduces you to hiring managers. Live demo included!
✅ What's actually worth chasing in 2026 - why title, company name and salary aren't the whole picture, and what to think about optimising for when early in your career
✅ Whether a startup is even right for you - what you gain, what you give up, and the trade-offs between a job like McKinsey versus a seed stage company
✅ What it's like breaking in as a woman - navigating founding teams that are mostly men, building credibility quickly, and understanding how compensation works so you can negotiate equity and base effectively
Interactive Q+A. View LinkedIn here.https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiaarora/
👤 About the speaker:
Sophia Arora studied History & Politics at Cambridge, spent three years at McKinsey, and now leads growth at Jack & Jill, an AI career platform backed by Creandum ($20M seed). She's worked across consulting, beauty tech, and AI.