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Arvind Jain

Founder and CEO, Glean

Arvind Jain is the founder and CEO of Glean, an enterprise AI platform that began with workplace search and now offers an assistant and agents grounded in company context. Before Glean, Jain co-founded Rubrik and led its research and development, and spent more than a decade at Google as a distinguished engineer leading teams in Search, Maps and YouTube.1

At a glance

Current role
Founder and CEO
Company
Glean
Sector
Company
Work listed
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Sources cited
2
Profile reviewed

Career

Jain began at Microsoft, held a leadership role at Akamai, and then spent more than ten years at Google as a distinguished engineer leading teams on Search, Maps and YouTube. Jain went on to co-found Rubrik, a data security company, where Jain led research and development.1

Jain founded Glean in 2019, and the team built enterprise search in stealth before its public launch in 2021.1

Glean

Under Jain, Glean moved from enterprise search to a conversational assistant in 2023 and to agents that complete work across systems in 2025. Glean describes its approach as drawing on company context while preserving source permissions.1

As CEO, Jain writes regularly on Glean's blog about enterprise agents, including posts on autonomous agents that plan and self-evaluate, open agent architectures, and an agent development lifecycle.2

Work and contributions

  • Glean Proprietary product

    Founded Glean in 2019 to tackle the problem of people not finding the knowledge they need at work; the company launched enterprise search publicly in 2021 and later added a conversational assistant and agents.1

Timeline

  1. Founded Glean, which began building enterprise search in stealth.1
  2. Glean launched publicly with its enterprise search product.1
  3. Glean brought generative AI to enterprise search with a conversational Assistant.1
  4. Glean launched Agents to complete work across enterprise systems.1
  5. Wrote about Glean Autonomous Agents, which plan, self-evaluate and act.2
  6. Published "The emerging agent architecture" on open enterprise agent design.2

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Co-founder, led research and development, Rubrik1
  • Distinguished engineer leading teams in Search, Maps and YouTube (more than a decade), Google1
  • Leadership position, Akamai1
  • Started career at Microsoft, Microsoft1

Where they work

  • Glean 3 people in the wiki

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References

2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. About Glean — journey and leadershipGlean · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Arvind Jain — Glean author pageGlean · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026