next play 4/9

ex-Apple, tech lead from Google, AI projects, and more

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.

Note: We are writing a series of tactical, no BS guides to help you with all things careers. We just wrapped up the first essay, it’s 4 pages of tactical content—”How to choose a startup to join.” We’ll send out the guide to subscribers who share our Substack link nextplayso.substack.com with someone great exploring their next moves. Send us an email: hi@nextplay.so confirming you’ve shared the link with people and we will email you access to the guide. Appreciate your support.

Opportunities

• Lennie Zhu is seeking marketing/technical co-founders for her new indie product studio and communities of founders working on bootstrapped products/product hacking to collaborate with. She is the Founder & Head of Product at 01 Labs, a product consultancy for creator and AI startups, and has helped build 10+ VC-backed startups with/for creators like Mr. Beast, Hot Ones, Billie Eilish, Lizzo and more, often from 0-1. She was previously at WeWork and American Express. Reach out on LinkedIn or at l@lennie.io.

• Aragon.ai is an AI research lab exploring new mediums of expression. They are hoping to build the future of photography. They got to $5M ARR (and are now profitable) within 12 months of launching. They are hiring a senior product designer - Linkedin message their founder if you are interested.

• A friend built a really powerful Linkedin automation tool that allows you to automatically send connections/messages and get analytics on your/your connections. He is looking for someone to own the business side—scale all the sales/marketing/operations/etc, could be part-time or full-time (and could lead to a really amazing passive income stream). Reach out to jacob@linkiq.co with some information about yourself and why you may be interested.

• Warp is hiring a director of product. Warp is a rust-based coding terminal designed to make teams productive at coding and application development. Send your resume to recruiting@warp.dev.

• Valerie is looking for a technical co-founder, systems engineer preferred with mastery in web development, who loves to think about interfaces and appreciates good design in products. We are building a new type of software to interface for everything you do online, with a team composed of ex-Apple, Humane, Pitch, Rive, Sketch, and Lido Finance. Can email valtetu@gmail.com with information if you are interested.

• Someone is currently looking for design or engineering co-founders for a "private Instagram/Twitter for groups and events" similar to Shine by Marissa Mayer. They have 20 years of experience as a software engineer across Sydney and SF, and has worked as a CTO of a seed stage company, and I have founded 3 startups. People can contact them at anindha@gmail.com.

• First Round—the venture capital firm—is hiring for multiple roles: Writer, Executive Assistant and Go-to-Market Manager.

• Uncommonly Bold is a boutique writing agency for startups. They are hiring a project / client manager - someone to assist in relationship management with customers and writers. Background could be in content, account management, or marketing. Can be part time or full time. Send an email: carter@uncommonlybold.com.

• Alta’s mission is to empower companies in managing their most critical business asset—their revenue engine. Founded by three experienced co-founders (2 monday.com early employees and a successful entrepreneur post-exit), backed by significant seed funding from leading global VCs, Alta is quickly scaling and searching for motivated individuals eager to hop on this roller coaster ride with them. They are looking for full-stack engineers in Tel Aviv to join their team of 10 employees at this exciting stage of rapid growth. Email: tom@altahq.com if you are interested.

• A seed-stage company—Dirac—is looking to hire a 0 to 1 Sales/GTM Lead to help industrialize their sales infrastructure and help them convert on their growing pipeline. The company is building a software called BuildOS that automatically generates work instructions with only a CAD file. They're radically changing the quality of life, bottom line, and time-to-market for manufacturers, reducing the man-hours needed for this process from months to minutes — increasing manufacturing competitiveness, efficiency, and turns on capital. Email fil@diracinc.com.

• Anrok is hiring an account executive (alongside some other roles). Anrok is a a global sales tax compliance platform that simplifies the complex landscape of sales tax regulations for SaaS businesses. Founded in 2020 by Michelle Valentine and Kannan Goundan, Anrok offers an end-to-end solution for managing sales tax obligations across 40+ countries. You can apply here.

• PhotoGAUGE is leveling up the housing renovation industry to improve living standards and the quality of life by digitizing measurements and utilizing AI to bring sustainable high-quality homes at affordable prices. We are looking for a founding engineer who can rebuild the application stack that wraps our core measurement technology IP. They have raised $16M. Contact them if you are interested: benzironen@gmail.com.

• Got forwarded an interesting community opportunity. My friend (Sylvia) and I (Le) are both passionate about community building and wellness. We both run, play tennis, and want to learn how to play pickleball and find that some activities are hard to get started/maintain due to a lack of friends sharing similar interests and playing at the same level, in addition to other things like the availability of courts, etc. in the city. We are hoping to figure out a way (via newsletter, events, matching) to bring people who live in the same neighborhood / near each other of similar interests together. Fill out this form if you are interested in exploring: Playmate interest form.

• Rohit Divate is hiring a corporate finance analyst for his team at Gusto. Highly cross functional and strategic finance role. Send him a message on Linkedin if you are interested in exploring.

• Arunkumar, an experienced senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead from Google, is looking for co-founders with product/sales background that could complement his technical skills. He is currently exploring a few areas in SportsTech+AI, but is open to other areas. Reach out at arunkumar.navasiva@gmail.com Based in India, open to remote.

• Carly Valancy, prev head of brand & marketing at Primer, is looking for engineering/design co-founders (or people who want to hack on a fun project in the moonlight) who want to work on building software that supports thousands of people's journey to make networking fun, like a party. Reach out at cvalancy@gmail.com.

• Here are a few great new grad opportunities if you know anyone looking: NVIDIA for Research Scientist, Robotics, Jerry for Junior Data Scientist, Snowflake for Data Scientist, FreedomPay for Software Engineer.

next play note:

• We have been blown away by the support for next play. We really appreciate you sharing your feedback with us (and also broadcasting our site nextplay.so to your friends) as we hope to make the community as useful as possible.

• One more favor to ask, when you have a chance, please like this post on Substack, we’d really appreciate it!

• The community recently hosted under-the-radar gatherings in Boston, Austin, London, Miami, and Bangalore. Many more in the works. If you would ever like to be a host, just apply here.

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.