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early startups hiring, co-founder searches, roles at breakout startups
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Co-founders and people to jam with:
Meir is a Director of Product at a $500M blockchain company with 10 years of experience building crypto and AI products. He’s looking for an AI-first marketing co-founder. Reach out: meir.rosenschein@gmail.com.
An anonymous product manager with 5+ years leading product at Reddit is looking for a cofoudner to build out tooling to help fashion brands reduce waste in their returns process while complying with upcoming legislation. They already have spoken to dozens of potential customers and are looking to build. Reach out to hi@nextplay.so and we’ll try to connect you.
Ria is a former Meta product lead and a founding PM at India’s leading AI lab. She’s now building GoldMind, a human-judgment infrastructure company providing expert feedback for AI evals and reward model training, with customers including Google. She’s looking for an SF-based co-founder and thought partner excited by frontier AI research. Reach out: ria@goldmind.group.
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Early teams:
Seb from Brick is building an AI operating system for industrial sectors like data centers. They are hiring a lead project manager, a founding sales lead, and a founding deployment engineer. Apply here. (NYC)
Justin previously founded Hinge. Now he’s building a new dating app called Overtone. He’s hiring a community lead, a product lead, and a head of communications. Apply here. (NYC)
Ravin from Credal reached 7-figure ARR with just 13 people. They are hiring a founding GTM deployment strategist. Their platform lets you securely connect AI to any data source. Apply here. (NYC)
Artur from Principle is hiring a forward deployed solutions consultant. They are building a strategic modeling and simulation engine. Reach out: shrigorthy@gmail.com. (SF)
Duncan from Lunos is hiring a founding account executive. They are building an ai-powered accounts receivables platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Danyal from Callosum just emerged out of stealth with $10.25 million seed funding to build an intelligent systems company developing new chips. They are hiring engineers. Apply here. (London)
Samir from Allocate is building an operating system for private markets investing that has over 350 wealth advisory firm customers and $3.5 billion assets on the platform. They are hiring operations people and relationship managers. Apply here. (SF)
Ami from Verci is hiring community managers. Verci is building a creative community space in NYC. Apply here. (NYC)
Kimia from NationGraph is building a data platform that monitors government data sources and reveals useful signals. They are hiring SDRs and a founding director of media. Apply here. (Miami, Toronto)
Kevin from Lumonic announced they tripled ARR while maintaining 100% customer retention in 2025 for their portfolio monitoring software. They are now hiring a GTM engineer and an account executive. Apply here. (Seattle)
Saharsh from Surface Labs is building an ai-powered marketing ops platform. They are hiring a founding salesperson. Apply here. (SF)
Julien from Granted is building a platform to help Americans take charge of their healthcare. They are hiring an agent product manager. Apply here. (NYC)
Here’s a list we made of 32 startups that raised $1m-$5m and are hiring.
Scaling startups:
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Karan from Composio is building infrastructure that allows agents to communicate with tools for work like Github, Gmail, Notion, and more. They are hiring growth people, biz ops people, and engineers. Apply here. (SF)
Brandon from Vitalize is hiring a senior product designer, FDEs, and a business operations person. They are building autonomous hospital operations software several US health systems rely on as their source of truth. In nine months, they’re approaching 8-figures in ARR, and just raised a Series A from tier 1 VCs and health systems who are also their customers. Apply here. (SF)
Michael previously was the CTO of Notion and the head of applied machine learning at Stripe. Now he just announced his new startup Rowspace, which raised $50m from Sequoia to build an ai-platform for investors. They are hiring a product marketing manager, a GTM person, and a forward deployed engineer. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Mikey from Suno announced they passed $300m ARR and 2m paid subscribers for their AI audio platform. They are hiring for 37 roles: finance, growth, product, and more. Apply here. (SF, NYC, Boston)
Mary from Runway is hiring a strategic finance person and an accountant. They are building a business modeling and financial planning platform. Apply here. (Remote, NYC, SF)
Ali from Instacart is hiring for their associate product manager program. They are building on-demand groceries. Apply here. (SF, NYC, Toronto)
Yogi from Maxima just raised $41m and has 17 open roles across sales and engineer. They are building an agentic accounting platform. Apply here. (Remote, SF, NYC)
Charles from Posthog is hiring a sales lead, a technical customer success manager, and a finance lead. They build dev tools that help product engineers build successful products (and they also have a cool website!). Apply here. (Remote)
Adam from Anthropic’s consumer product team is hiring a product manager. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Vineet from Cogent is hiring a founding recruiter, a sales manager, and a director of product marketing. They are building an ai security platform that just raised $42m. Apply here. (Remote)
Ben from Outset announced they grew 8x last year while closing customers like Microsoft and Uber. They are building an ai-moderated customer research platform and are hiring across product, GTM, and sales. Apply here. (SF)
Caitlin from Bolt is building an ai-powered app development platform. They are hiring SDRs, a lifecycle marketing manager, and data people. Apply here. (Remote)
Ayush from Warp is hiring salespeople, rev ops people, and a founding recruiter. They are building an ai-powered payroll platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Mitchell from Basis just raised a $100m Series B for their ai-powered accounting platform. They are hiring a sales leader, a product marketer, and a product manager. Apply here. (NYC)
Stephanie from OpenAI is hiring a director of finance, strategic partnerships. Apply here. (SF)
Fei-Fei from World Labs just raised a $1 billion round to build world models. They are hiring product managers and a recruiter. Apply here. (SF)
Christopher from Squarespace is incubating an internal b2b sales team. Apply here. (NYC)
Here’s a list we made of 30 startups hiring with $50m to $100m raised.
Investing and other:
Shri from Category Ventures is hiring an ai engineer to build internal tools for their venture firm. Apply here. (SF)
Kindred Ventures is hiring a research analyst. Apply here. (SF)
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