next play 3/26
ex Intercom, growth marketers, ops-focused chief of staff, and more under-the-radar opportunities
Hello!
This is next play’s newsletter, where we share under-the-radar opportunities to help you figure out what’s next in your journey.
Opportunities
A friend (ex Intercom, and also founder of a digital health company that he sold) is building an enterprise healthcare platform focused on automating administrative tasks. They just raised a seed round after growing to six-figures in annual revenue (in just a few months), and see a path to $1m+ by end of year. They are hiring a founding designer (based in SF) to help build the future of healthcare. Email rahulshivkumar@gmail.com.
Austin Hay (previously head of marketing technology at Ramp, Runway, Branch, and others) is on a mission to make a CRM people actually love. He’s hiring full-stack engineers for his new company. Email Austin@getclarify.ai if interested.
Speak is one of the fastest growing early stage companies in the world. Their mission is to become the de facto way people learn foreign languages. They are hiring a product analyst and a product designer. Read more here.
A friend (ex Rippling, Samsara growth lead) is hiring growth marketers to join his growth marketing agency that is growing really quickly (lots of growth!). Part-time and full-time both available (remote is great). Email ted@nitrogrowth.co if interested.
Chapter One, Jeff Morris Jr.’s venture firm is hiring for two roles: Summer research analyst, Part-time content creator. More details in the Twitter thread.
Founder of Hero (just raised a great per-seed round from Andreas Klinger, Cyan Bannister, and others) is hiring a senior full stack engineer. You can DM him here.
a16z Games is hiring and experienced sales and partnerships operator to lead engagement with their tech, infra, and AI portfolio. More here.
Experienced Tech lead from Google Generative Search is exploring a solution that reimagines CI/CD and DevOps day-to-day work with Agents. Looking for a cofounder (ideally based in Tel Aviv, but open to remote). Email hi@nextplay.so and will connect if a fit.
Beehiiv just hit $10M ARR and is hiring for several remote roles listed here.
A friend (Princeton grad, ex-Doordash/Square) is hiring a part-time technical intern to tinker with the latest “AI foundation models” - great for a college student who “wants to get paid to learn.” Email aman@stelolabs.com.
Multiple early stage founders (<20 person companies) are looking for ops-focused chief of staffs—people who can take things off their plates like pieces of operations, HR, and finance. Email hi@nextplay.so and we will connect you if relevant.
Meter—Sequoia-backed internet infrastructure company—is hiring their first revenue operations lead. They are growing extremely quickly and looking for someone to support their scaling revenue teams. Job description here.
Jake Sussman, cofounder of Headway, a unicorn mental health company, is looking for engineering and ops leadership at Marble, his new startup dedicated to youth mental health. Marble raised $5M from Khosla in November and have early signs of PMF. Reach out to Jake if you’re interested jake.d.sussman@gmail.com.
Riverside is quickly becoming the default solution for producing audio/video content. Hiring in Toronto and Tel Aviv for a bunch of roles.
Several fast growing early stage startups are hiring Account Executives (people who like to talk with prospects/customers) and get deals done. Looking for hustlers who want to learn a lot and take ownership of a funnel. Email hi@nextplay.so and we will connect you if relevant.
Andrew Tan is looking for engineering/design co-founders (or just people who want to hack on projects together) who want to work on vertical/horizontal AI applications. He's an exited founder and writes TDLR AI, the biggest AI newsletter with 700K subscribers. Reach out at andrewztan12@gmail.com.
A friend in SF who is an engineer at Meta working on AI Agents, is building a side project, an eCommerce platform that personalizes the whole site based on user conversation and interactions. He’s looking for technical/ product focused collaborators who could bring in GTM, model training, and/or demand generation experience. If relevant, can reach directly at yash463@outlook.com.
next play note:
What feedback do you have for us at next play? What can we be doing to be more helpful? What ideas do you have for us? Let us know!! Respond directly to the email.
If you run/work at an amazing company and you are looking to hire, you should email us. We have so many great candidates that we are looking to connect.
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If you have any opportunities to share (roles, cofounder search, side projects, etc.), reply directly to this email with a context blurb and we will consider including it in the next issue.
Ben Lang + next play