Skip to main content
Shray J.

Shray Jain-Surana

Ex-PM, $17B Startup/YC/Alchemy | Clients @ Coinbase/LinkedIn/TikTok/Google

  • Michigan's Ross School of Business Logo

    Michigan's Ross School of Business

  • Quantinuum Logo

    Quantinuum

Available Saturday

Starting at 2:00 PM UTC

Questions?

You can start chatting with Shray before you get started.

Work with Shray

About

Hello! I work with candidates targeting product and product-adjacent roles: founding PM, forward-deployed engineer, deployment strategist, chief of staff, and strategic projects. Clients and friends have landed at companies like Coinbase, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Google. I was founding product lead on the global enterprise platform team at Quantinuum, a $17B advanced computing scale-up (NASDAQ: QNT). I shipped 0→1 API and on-prem security products, signed a $150B conglomerate as anchor customer, protected 3M users across NAMER/EMEA/APJ, and built the pricing, packaging, ABM, and partner motions that scaled into F500 accounts (HSBC, Roche, Aramco, Honeywell, Fujitsu). Earlier I ran strategic projects from the COO office on a $300M M&A deal covered in the FT and Bloomberg, and led self-serve product plus early commercial at LeaseMagnets (YC S21). Today I build and deploy AI agents into PE-backed services businesses and have taken LLM pilots through discovery with MOD UK, Microsoft, and Amazon. I take a full-stack approach from first shortlist to signed offer: company targeting and narrative positioning, resume and LinkedIn work for non-template backgrounds, company-specific interview dossiers, story banks on a real behavioral framework (not STAR), live product-sense and case reps, and offer negotiation. Best fit for candidates without a clean FAANG-shaped resume who need their actual path made legible to a hiring manager in ninety seconds. Ideal for: AI-native startups and frontier tech; career switchers from finance, consulting, or ops into product; founders and operators moving into PM, chief of staff, or strategic projects; international and non-US applicants; deep-tech and enterprise-platform PMs; anyone with a non-linear resume that needs a clear story. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Wishing you the very best.

Shray’s Break Into AI Careers Qualifications

Experience level: Associate

Hello! I work with candidates targeting product and product-adjacent roles: founding PM, forward-deployed engineer, deployment strategist, chief of staff, and strategic projects. Clients and friends have landed at companies like Coinbase, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Google. I was founding product lead on the global enterprise platform team at Quantinuum, a $17B advanced computing scale-up (NASDAQ: QNT). I shipped 0→1 API and on-prem security products, signed a $150B conglomerate as anchor customer, protected 3M users across NAMER/EMEA/APJ, and built the pricing, packaging, ABM, and partner motions that scaled into F500 accounts (HSBC, Roche, Aramco, Honeywell, Fujitsu). Earlier I ran strategic projects from the COO office on a $300M M&A deal covered in the FT and Bloomberg, and led self-serve product plus early commercial at LeaseMagnets (YC S21). Today I build and deploy AI agents into PE-backed services businesses and have taken LLM pilots through discovery with MOD UK, Microsoft, and Amazon. I take a full-stack approach from first shortlist to signed offer: company targeting and narrative positioning, resume and LinkedIn work for non-template backgrounds, company-specific interview dossiers, story banks on a real behavioral framework (not STAR), live product-sense and case reps, and offer negotiation. Best fit for candidates without a clean FAANG-shaped resume who need their actual path made legible to a hiring manager in ninety seconds. Ideal for: AI-native startups and frontier tech; career switchers from finance, consulting, or ops into product; founders and operators moving into PM, chief of staff, or strategic projects; international and non-US applicants; deep-tech and enterprise-platform PMs; anyone with a non-linear resume that needs a clear story. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Wishing you the very best.

Shray can help with:

AI Agents

AI Fundamentals

Cover Letters

Interview Prep

Job Search Strategies

LinkedIn Review

Networking Strategy

Resume

Salary Negotiation

Skill Building

Work Experience

Forward Deployed Product and Applied AI Advisory + Startups  Logo

Co-Founder & Product/Deployment Lead, AI Agents / Enterprise Infrastructure Teams

Forward Deployed Product and Applied AI Advisory + Startups

September 2023 - Present

• Founded AI OS for PE-backed $10M+ ARR services, deploying 24/7 multi-modal CX agents, managing 15 integrations, defining client guardrails/evals, modeling outcomes pricing, and handling config & user audit logging • Deployed LLM-based control plane for B2B supply chain risks: performed 25-hour product discovery with MOD UK/MSFT/AMZN, scoped SOPs, architected ERP pipelines & RBAC panel, and delivered 2 pilots for EU clients • Streamlined 5 partnerships, 1K+ dev community, and hackathons (Stripe/Hugging Face) for AI/Robotics group

Alchemy Logo

Product and Growth

Alchemy

May 2022 - June 2024

- Drove developer relations for 53.3K unique developers through marketing content targeting key blockchain technology segments - Produced technical educational resources increasing developer platform adoption

Quantinuum Logo

Founding Product Lead, Global Enterprise Platform Team

Quantinuum

July 2021 - September 2023

• Shipped 0→1 API and on-prem security products, signing $150B conglomerate anchor customer (1M+ IoT devices) and protecting 3M cross-platform users in NAMER/EMEA/APJ with 23 engineering and research staff • Orchestrated Day 0 launches that delivered 20% of ARR goal, using five-figure marketing program (demos, docs, events, case studies) to support acquisition for F500 accounts like HSBC, Roche, Aramco, Honeywell, and Fujitsu • Engineered GTM and expansion playbook for $100M markets/30 accounts including pricing & packaging, ABM motion, NIST/ISO compliance, scaling 25 global sellers by lifting win-rate 25% and reducing GRC costs by $500K • Drove roadmap via PRDs, prototypes, and CXO-level discovery, meeting 99.9% uptime and 2-hour MTTR SLA while launching BYO infrastructure, 2 usage-based plans, zero-data-retention policies, and 3 co-sales partnerships

Quantinuum Logo

Strategic Projects Lead & Chief of Staff, Chief Operating Officer’s Office

Quantinuum

January 2021 - July 2021

• Built financial models, dashboard, and budgets adopted by CFO for $300M M&A deal featured in the FT/Bloomberg • Led EMEA site expansion via set-up (banking/HR/payroll), QBRs, weekly FP&A reports, and €100K R&D grant • Managed board/investor relations, fundraising materials with BCG/BofA, and post-merger integration for UK/US

LeaseMagnets [YC S21 Real Estate B2B2C Marketplace]  Logo

Founding Product and GTM Lead

LeaseMagnets [YC S21 Real Estate B2B2C Marketplace]

May 2020 - September 2020

• Oversaw deal desk, SDRs, and territory model, increasing sales speed by 30% in 60 days and closing $150K SQLs • Launched PLG/self-serve digital agent, lifting customer engagement 250% and conversions 180% with 0% churn • A/B-tested dashboard/identity management/landing pages with design, onboarding 2 $1B+ real estate firms

Michigan Private Equity & Venture Capital [$100M Median AUM Per Client Engagement] Logo

Founder and President, Financial Services Organization

Michigan Private Equity & Venture Capital [$100M Median AUM Per Client Engagement]

January 2019 - May 2020

• Created financial markets org that placed 40+ associates into sell side/buy-side firms (KKR, Blackstone, Apollo) • Developed partnership with Round13 Capital ($325M AUM), executed 6 consulting projects for Sequoia-backed startups in travel, e-commerce, ads, and advised consumer FinTech app with 4.8/5 rating and 103K iOS reviews

Education

Michigan's Ross School of Business Logo

Michigan's Ross School of Business

BBA, Emphases: (1) Finance (2) Technology & Operations (TO)

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Logo

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

BA, (1) Applied Economics (2) Political Philosophy [Double Major]