Jobs at Lovable, ex-Waymo engineers, former head of engineering at Clubhouse

opportunities at breakout startups, co-founder searches, and early teams hiring

✨ Hey there this is a free edition of Next Play’s newsletter, where we share under-the-radar opportunities to help you figure out what’s next in your journey.

We just sent out a list of 29 people looking for co-founders to the Friends of Next Play community. Zach, for example, met Sha via the community - they’ve since started a company, raised a $2m pre-seed, and signed multiple large enterprise customers. The Slack group is filled with conversations (and invitations to gatherings). You can join the conversation here - hope to talk soon.

Co-founders and people to jam with:

• William was previously the first data science hire at a Series B startup that now has over $100m in ARR. He’s working on Pollenate, a platform for commercial pollination, and is looking for a cofounder. Reach out: whh293@nyu.edu.

• Anu previously was at Amazon, BCG, and MIT Sloan. She’s now building an ai-platform for small businesses, and is looking for a co-founder, ideally someone technical. Reach out: bhave.anu@gmail.com.

• Logan is building a gamified tourism platform. He’s previously been a director of technology and is looking for a cofounder. Reach out: logan@exploreopenworld.com

• Goetz is building Fleetchat, a fleet communication platform for the 4 million+ truck drivers in the United States. He’s looking for a cofounder as he’s nearly done building the beta. Reach out: goetz_weber@yahoo.com.

Early teams:

• George from Monk has previously started and sold a company for more than $100m. Now they are building an ai-powered accounts receivable platform. They are hiring a founding generalist. Apply here. (NYC)

• Justin from Phoebe previously started and sold a company to Airtable. They are now building an AI assistant for home health work, and are hiring an early full stack engineer. Apply here. (NYC)

• William from Rebolt went from $0 to $2 million in ARR in the past 9 months. They are building an all-in-one marketing platform for home services professionals. They are hiring a head of content and community, a customer success representative, and a head of partnerships. Apply here. (Los Angeles, Atlanta)

• Lennard from Langdock is hiring a business AI associate and engineers. They are building an all-in-one AI platform for enterprises. Apply here. (Berlin)

• Stedman and Harry from Neon Health are building AI agents that accelerate patient access to life-saving drugs. They are already profitable. They are hiring a chief of staff and founding engineers. Apply here. (SF)

• Kene previously started and sold a company and was a director at Spotify and Netflix. She’s now building a platform to help software teams do ai-powered product discovery based on data. She has funding and is looking for senior technical talent (engineers, designers, data). Reach out: kene@kene.ai.

• Tal from Gelt is hiring an account executive and a marketing manager. They are building a tax management platform. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)

• Ali from Obvio recently raised a $22m Series A. They are building a platform to help city-operations run more efficiently using solar-powered AI sensors. They are hiring a chief of staff, a product operations manager, and a lead product manager. Apply here. (SF)

• Mark from Solidroad is hiring a head of marketing and a business development representative. They are building an ai-powered training platform for CX leaders. Apply here. (SF)

• A group of ex-Waymo engineers just announced Bedrock Robotics, a construction autonomy startup. They are hiring engineers, data scientists, and have a general application. Apply here. (NYC, SF)

• Naeem from Moonvalley is building an AI video platform built on fully licensed data so that it’s commercially safe. They are hiring a founding marketer. Apply here. (SF)

• Mircea was previously the head of engineering at Clubhouse. He’s now working on Brain Co, and is hiring a product designer and engineers. They are somewhat in stealth, but building a platform that helps governments adopt AI. Apply here. (SF, Dubai)

• Kate from Folio is hiring a chief of staff, account manager, and engineers. They are building a procurement platform the hospitality industry. Apply here. (SF, Durham)

• Paul-Adrien from Spiko is building a cash management platform. They are hiring a growth marketer and an account executive. Apply here. (Paris)

Scaling startups:

• We know a bunch of companies looking specifically to hire “Former Startup Founders.” Fill out this form - we review every person who applies and try to make as many connections as possible.

• Mariam from Softr is building a no-code internal tools platform that’s been used by 700,000+ teams. They are hiring a senior growth marketer and a senior product manager. Apply here. (Remote)

• Dara from Delphi is hiring a chief of staff. They’ve raised over $16m from Sequoia to build a “digital mind.” Apply here. (SF)

• Anton from Lovable just announced they reached $75m ARR in just 8 months since launching. They are building an AI development platform. They are hiring a community lead, a growth marketer, and a talent lead. Apply here. (Stockholm, NYC)

• Mira from Thinking Machines previously was the founder/CTO of OpenAI and just announced a $2b seed round at a $12b valuation. They are hiring product people and engineers. Apply here. (SF, NYC)

• Christopher from Granola is hiring a founding account executive, as well as engineers and a product manager. They are building an AI meeting notepad, and recently raised a $43m Series B. Apply here. (London)

• Aly from Stripe is hiring someone to manage Stripe’s social media handles and produce product demos. Very open to unconventional candidates. Apply here. (SF, NYC)

• Matt from Boulevard just raised an $80m round for their operating system for appointment-based, self-care businesses. They are hiring for customer onboarding, sales, product marketing, and more. Apply here. (Remote)

• Jesse from Decagon is hiring a founder associate to work in the office of the CEO, along with many other roles. Decagon is an ai-powered customer support tool, and recently announced a $131m Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation. Apply here. (SF)

• Matt from Loop is hiring a strategic finance lead, a strategic operations specialist, a customer success manager, and more. They are building a transportation spend management platform. Apply here. (Chicago, SF, NYC)

• Sid from Nuvo recently announced a Series A from Sequoia for their infrastructure platform for the commerce industry. They are hiring account executives, SDRs, and a head of finance. Apply here. (Denver)

• Mike from Vesta has raised $55m to rebuild the loan origination system for mortgages. They are hiring an implementations manager. Apply here. (Remote)

• Lukas from Tandem Health just announced a $50m fundraise for their medical note-taking platform. They have 16 open roles across operations, engineering, and product. Apply here. (Remote, Stockholm)

• Here’s a list of companies that recently raised more than $100m.

If you are hiring, send us an email (hi@nextplay.so) we can connect you great candidates.

Investing and other:

• Costanoa Ventures is hiring an investment associate. Apply here. (SF)

• Balderton Capital is hiring a venture analyst. Apply here. (London)

• Aneel from Soma Capital is hiring a head of events. Apply here. (NYC)

• A partner from a16z is hiring a chief of staff. Apply here. (SF)

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Note:

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