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Quick reminder that even if a startup is not explicitly hiring for your particular role, it’s still possible to land a job. My suggestion is to send a cold email to the hiring manager or founder expressing why you’d be a good fit (i.e. how you could add value). This sounds simple but you’d maybe be shocked by how effective it is. More thoughts on this cold emailing approach here. One of my favorite things is receiving success stories…so please do try things out 🙂
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Co-founders and people to jam with:
Jeremy is a repeat founder and AI engineering leader from companies like Drift, Webflow, and Vanta. He’s building an AI copilot for in-field service technicians and is looking for a cofounder. Reach out: jeremytoce@gmail.com.
Rob was the Head of Sales at Merge, helping scale from 0 to $20M+ ARR. He’s starting to build in AI-powered accounting and bookkeeping automation, with a clear wedge and distribution strategy already mapped and user conversations started, and is looking to meet a technical cofounder to build with. Reach out here.
Lucas was previously a tech lead at Instacart. He’s looking for a GTM cofounder for his new nutrition tracking platform that’s already reached 30k MAU organically. Reach out: lucas@peppermint.engineering.
Hiring? Email us (hi@nextplay.so), we’d love to help you find the right people and get exposure to the community.
Early teams:
Ron from Acely is hiring a performance marketing lead. They are building an AI-powered test preparation platform. They have grown to $10m ARR with an 11-person team. Apply here. (Remote)
Nate from Teero is hiring an operations associate, a software engineer, a community person, and an account executive. They are building a platform to help dentists grow their practices. Apply here. (Austin, Amsterdam)
Vinoo and John from Kepler are hiring founding full stack engineers. They are building deterministic infrastructure for AI. Apply here. (NYC)
Drogue is hiring a founding mechanical engineer and a general business athlete. They are building ocean-scale energy infrastructure. Apply here. (Washington DC)
Jay from HUD is hiring for Research Engineers and other roles. They are building infra that enables anyone to create RL training data, then sell it to labs on their marketplace. Apply here. (SF)
Nathan from Freckle is hiring a CTO. They have over 7,000 users and have raised $6m to build GTM infrastructure for agents. Reach out: nathan@freckle.io. (SF)
Diogo from TypeSafe was one of the creators of RLHF and ChatGPT. Now he is building a new class of frontier AI models to make intelligence reliable, programmable, and composable. They are looking for senior engineers for their platform and data teams, as well as founding recruiter, designer, and more. Apply here. (SF)
Dimensional hiring for roles across software, infra, manipulation, navigation, and LLM/agents. They are building dimOS, an agentic operating system for generalist robotics. Apply here. (SF, Shenzhen)
Ugur from Reflow is hiring a customer success manager and a forward deployed data analyst. They are building a workflow intelligence platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Dan from Every is hiring a head of social, a head of product marketing, and a GTM engineer. They are building a mix of a media company, a software company, and a consulting company. Apply here. (Remote)
Bryant from Ploy is hiring a growth solutions/customer success specialist. He previously founded Webflow (got to a $4b valuation) and are now building an AI platform to help optimize your website. Apply here. (NYC, SF)
Ignacio from Rexi is hiring a founding GTM person. They are building a finance operations platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Yassine from Earleads is hiring a content writer. They reached $1m ARR last year and are aiming for $10m this year. They are building a “gtm engineering as a service” platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Jimmy from Plug is hiring a director of marketplace operations. They are building a marketplace for electric vehicles that’s already done $100m in EV sales since launch. Apply here. (LA)
Ashish from Hey Noah is hiring a founding growth lead. They are building an AI-assistant for executives. Apply here. (SF)
Jack from Ajax is hiring a founding customer activation person. They are building an AI platform for lawyers to automate timekeeping. They have never churned a customer, and have doubled ARR every 2 months. Apply here. (NYC)
Faizaan from Minicor hiring a forward-deployed engineer. They are building a desktop automation platform to help save businesses time. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Jason from Stand is hiring a founding customer success person. They are building an insurance platform for wildfires, hurricanes, and more. Apply here. (SF)
Scaling startups:
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Jesse from Moxie is hiring a revenue operations and strategy person. They are building a platform to help aesthetics entrepreneurs run their own practices. They have 700+ customers. Apply here. (Remote)
Jamie from Industrious is hiring a new CEO. He’s been the CEO for the past 13 years. They are now the largest premium workplace provider in the world, and are on track to end the year with 300+ locations. Apply here. (NYC)
Mike from Figure is hiring a c-level marketer to run growth for an independent startup within their company. He previously founded SoFi and Figure is now a public fintech company with an $8b valuation. Apply here. (NYC, SF)
Gaetan from Robinhood is hiring a senior partnerships manager to focus on crypto. Apply here. (NYC)
Sahil from Wander is hiring a VP of customer success. They are building a luxury vacation rental platform. Apply here. (Austin)
Tim from Flex is hiring an in-house production studio including a videographer, editor, and creative director. They are building a banking platform for business owners. Apply here. (SF)
Gabriel from Rogo is hiring a customer success manager, salespeople, GTM people, and more. They just raised $160m at a unicorn valuation. They are building AI for the finance industry. Apply here. (London, SF, NYC)
Chris from Threads, Meta’s social media product with over 400 million monthly active users, is hiring a VP of product. Apply here. (SF)
Aaron from Assort Health is hiring customer success managers. They are building an AI platform for the healthcare call centers. They have raised $102m and had over 140 million interactions with patients. Apply here. (SF)
Parag from Parallel is hiring a head of marketing, GTM people, and a recruiter. He was formerly CEO of Twitter. They are building a web search API for AI. They just raised $100m at a $2b valuation. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Ellen from Watershed is hiring salespeople. They are building an enterprise sustainability platform. Apply here. (SF, London)
Chris from Hadrian is hiring for 160 roles across every department. They are building autonomous factories that hopes to ship 10x faster and 2x cheaper for the defense and aerospace industries. Apply here. (LA, SF, Austin)
Investing and other:
Charley from Pathlight is hiring a talent lead. Apply here. (NYC)
Nyca Partners is hiring an investment associate. Apply here. (NYC)
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