Responsibilities
- Oversee core business operations including finance, vendor management, investor relations, auditing, and day-to-day administrative functions.
- Maintain and manage the company’s financial model, budgeting process, and forecasting activities.
- Collaborate directly with the CEO to support and expand founder-led sales initiatives.
- Administer CRM systems, track revenue performance, and monitor key sales metrics and KPIs.
- Support current investor engagement and assist in preparing for future fundraising rounds.
Work Arrangement
On-site — Coconut Grove
Team
Headquartered in Miami with an engineering team based in Vancouver and some distributed members; co-founded by experienced entrepreneurs with prior successful exits and leadership in high-performing teams.
About Safari AI
The company aims to automate operational actions in the physical economy—spanning entertainment, live venues, quick-service restaurants, and retail—using computer vision AI. It measures, alerts, and delivers AI-driven recommendations to enterprise clients such as Merlin/Legoland, 7-11, Tanger Outlets, Charlotte Hornets, and Calgary Flames. Its platform will soon advise clients on optimizing throughput, revenue, and staffing. Backed by venture capital, it plans to raise a Series A in 2026.
Leadership & Culture
Co-founded by Ali Vahabzadeh and Kaiwen Yuan, leaders with prior successful exits and experience managing high-performing GTM and engineering teams. The company is based in Miami, with engineering in Vancouver and a partially distributed workforce.
About You And How You Succeed At Safari AI
You thrive in building new products and creating markets from scratch. You act decisively when facing obstacles but know when to seek help. You operate with high agency, experiment with new approaches, and embrace the autonomy of an early-stage startup. You aim to lead client engagements with industry leaders to solve their most pressing operational challenges.
Why bet on Computer Vision and Safari AI?
- Massive untapped potential in using existing camera infrastructure to automate real-time operational decisions.
- Currently the leading enterprise computer vision provider by revenue, serving industry leaders with multi-billion-dollar operations.
- Significant gap between what customers need and what they know is technologically possible.
- Early market leadership in a space without dominant players like Amazon or Google.
- Highly modular platform enabling continuous innovation and new use case development.
- Three years of technology and data pipeline development with millions in investment, now positioned for scale.
