Former PM at Github, investor opening at Gradient Ventures, partnership roles at Chai Discovery

roles at breakout startups, co-founder searches, early startups hiring

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Co-founders and people to jam with:

• Jacob was previously a PM at Github working on GitHub Copilot. He also just finished his first year at Harvard Business School. Now he’s building a company helping organizations map their AI usage and then help with automations. He’s looking for a cofounder. Reach out: jacobbenjaminkirsch@gmail.com.

• An anonymous person wants to cofound a cashflow-generating software/services business focused on selling to small businesses. Looking for someone to hustle who can handle the business/sales side. Email hi@nextplay.so with context about yourself (your Linkedin, blurb) and we’ll try to connect you.

• Austin has been on the business side at Apple, Salesforce, and Twitter. Looking to find a co-founder to build something new, potentially in aircraft turbulence detection and broadcast. Reach out: austinevers@alum.mit.edu.

Hiring? Email us (hi@nextplay.so), we’d love to share your role with the community of over 91,000+ people including many very talented engineers, salespeople, ops people, and more.

Early teams:

• Tarek from Stuut is hiring a director of product marketing. They are building an automated accounts receivable collections platform. Apply here. (NYC)

• Jason from Prism Data is hiring a partnerships person, a sales associate, and a software engineer. They are building a credit risk assessment platform. Apply here. (San Diego, Remote)

• Janvi from Hue is hiring a founding software engineer. They are building an ai-powered commerce platform. Apply here. (Remote)

• Karen from KeewanoDB is hiring a founding developer advocate/devrel. They are building a next-generation database specifically designed for the AI era. Apply here. (NYC, SF)

• Charlie from Forefront is hiring a founding engineer. They are building a vertical SaaS platform for manufacturer rep firms. They just completed their first paid pilot and have monthly recurring revenue. Reach out: charlie.gilligan@getforefront.ai. (SF)

• Taylor from Metal is hiring a salesperson and a forward deployed investor. They are building an intelligence platform for private market investing. Apply here. (NYC)

• Sunny from Thira is hiring a founding AI engineer. He previously was the CEO of Apptio. They are building an automated back-office. Apply here. (Seattle)

• Nim from Sable is hiring a founding growth person and a founding account executive. They are building an AI employee who can lead customer calls using voice and vision and browser use. Apply here. (SF)

• Gal from Beacon is hiring a GTM engineer and a salesperson. They are building an ai-native security platform. Apply here. (Tel Aviv, Remote)

• Thomas from Hadrius is hiring a founding account manager and a partnerships manager. They are building a platform to automate and consolidate securities compliance for investment firms. Apply here. (NYC)

• Ross from Augmodo is hiring a solutions program manager and a biz development lead. They are building a spatial computing and retail platform. Apply here. (Remote)

• Constantine from Self Inspection is hiring an operations person and an ai engineer. They just raised a round from Sheryl Sandberg. They are building an automated vehicle inspection platform. Apply here. (Remote)

• Aaron from Closure is hiring a founding deployment strategist. They are building a digital analyst for law enforcement. Apply here. (NYC, SF)

• Quang from Unifold is hiring a founding GTM/BD lead. They are building multi-chain deposit and payment infra. Apply here. (NYC)

• Suril from Adaptational is hiring a founding GTM lead. They are building ai-powered insurance claims review. Apply here. (SF)

• Josh from HealthKey is hiring a founding account executive/GTM person. They are building an AI-powered patient identification platform for clinical trials. Apply here. (Austin)

• 34 startups currently hiring after raising $10m-$50m.
  

Scaling startups:

• Joshua from Chai Discovery is hiring business development people, talent people, and an engagement manager. They just raised $400m. They are building a research lab for molecular design. Apply here. (SF)

• Salar from Monumental is hiring a bizops/special projects person and a GM. They are building a robot-powered construction company. Apply here. (Amsterdam, Remote)

• Harry from Wonderly is hiring a VP of growth. They are building an end-to-end business AI platform for services businesses. Their platform charges customers a percentage of revenue they deliver. Apply here. (Remote)

• George from Monk is hiring a strategy and operations lead. They are building an AI-native accounts receivable platform. Apply here. (NYC)

• Nishith from Bunker Hill Health is hiring an events marketing lead and a forward deployed product lead. They partner with leading health systems to design and deploy AI-enhanced clinical workflows. Apply here. (SF)

• Oban from Spade is hiring a finance lead and an account executive. They are building a data and AI platform for the finance industry. Apply here. (NYC)

• Stav from Alta is hiring GTM people and salespeople. They have $15m revenue run rate. They are building an AI platform for GTM teams. Apply here. (Remote, Tel Aviv)

• Minna from EliseAI is hiring for every role: sales, operations, product, etc. Their top 3 AEs each brought in over $50m in ARR last year. They are building AI for property management and healthcare. Apply here. (NYC)

• Henley from Fora is hiring for 39 roles: customer success, sales, ops, and more. They are building an AI-powered travel platform. Apply here. (NYC)

• Shai from Oak is hiring salespeople and solutions engineers and a product manager. They just raised a $60m seed round. They are building a new identity management system. Apply here. (Tel Aviv)

• Zaid from Flex is hiring a venture community lead and a people ops manager. They just raised $70m to scale their financial system for entrepreneurs and business owners. Apply here. (Remote)

• Dave from Auger is hiring salespeople and a principal product manager. They are building an autonomous operating system for supply chains. Apply here. (Seattle, Dallas)

• Tenry from Spectro Cloud is hiring salespeople. They just raised $100m. They are building a platform that makes it easy for teams to collaborate on making software faster. Apply here. (Remote)
  

Investing and other:

• Redesign Health is hiring a managing director of new ventures. Apply here. (NYC, SF, LA)

• Gradient Ventures is hiring an investor. Apply here. (SF)

• Equal Ventures is hiring an analyst. Apply here. (NYC)

Resources and tools:

• Next Play’s new AI talent agent: check it out, it’s free! (and people have said it’s useful, and we’d like to make it better…so let us know what you think: hi@nextplay.so).

• A primer for managers: tips for leveling up at work.

• Perfect is an imperfect strategy: thoughts on where to spend your time.

Note:

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