A veteran tech leader lost his job at a startup to AI. After months of searching, he embraced the technology to help him land his next role.

Mark Quinn is the senior director of AI operations for Pearl, an AI search platform for professional services. In a prior role at a startup, the arrival of OpenAI’s GPT-4 meant artificial intelligence could do the work of a team he was building. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.

In my last job, I was at a startup. Before that, I was leading engineering operations at Waymo. It was a 3,000-person organization, a rocket ship all its own. In other…