opportunities at breakout startups, co-founder searches, and early teams hiring
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Last week’s win: Here’s how Eric landed a job at Console (a startup that just raised a $23m Series A) by joining Next Play. I was starting to look for new jobs at the end of 2024. I saw you were opening a Slack and joined and sent an introductory message to the group. Andrei (founder of Console) had sent me a DM and moved quickly. Finding the right seed stage startup is absolutely a needle in the haystack problem so it was great to have a curated community to search within.
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Co-founders and people to jam with: John previously was a lead product designer at startups like Profound, Titan, and Slice. He’s now exploring the generative UX space and is looking for a co-founder. Reach out: j@jallen.app. Rahul was previously a senior software engineer at Apple and founding engineer at Fermat Commerce (now a Series B company). He’s exploring opportunities in vertical AI and is looking for co-founders. Reach out: rahulrad7@gmail.com. Varsha has a background in engineering and product, most recently as a lead product manager at Lucid Motors. She’s exploring the creative AI space and is looking for a cofounder, ideally someone technical who wants to try to get into YC. Reach out: museaidesign@gmail.com William is building a fintech lender that already has $3 million in business lined-up from potential clients. He’s looking for a co-founder with capital markets experience. Reach out: william.keane@fundup.co.
Early teams: We’re hoping to help more people find jobs — if you’re a recruiter with experience in GTM and/or technical recruiting, send a blurb with context about yourself to jarred@nextplay.so. (Remote) Anna from Paradigm is hiring a founding growth/ops lead. They are building an ai-powered spreadsheet. Apply here. (SF) Chris from Crustdata just reached $4m ARR. They are a real-time b2b data provider that powers many AI platforms. They are hiring a founding growth hacker. Apply here. (NYC) George from Monk is hiring a founding engineer and a founding generalist. They have found PMF for their platform that helps businesses understand and grow their cashflows. Apply here. (NYC) Amanda from Bold is building a platform that provides personalized exercise programs for medicare members to help prevent falls and reduce pain. They are hiring engineers, a customer experience associate, and a designer. Apply here. (LA, Remote) Ali from Amigo is building AI agents for clinical use cases. They are hiring a growth associate and a founding account executive. Apply here. (NYC) Mariano from Comp AI grew to $1m ARR in just a few months and with just a few people. They are building an AI-powered compliance platform. They are hiring a lead videographer / filmmaker. Apply here. (NYC) Ben from Raindrop is building Sentry for AI agents that helps AI engineers identify issues. They are hiring an engineer. Apply here. (SF) Alex from Parse is building a platform that helps you turn any website into an API. They are hiring a backend engineer to work on reverse engineering. Apply here. (SF, Remote) Lee from Tavily is hiring a marketing lead and a senior product manager. They are building a search engine for AI agents. Apply here. (NYC) Jesus from Kontigo is building a neobank in Latin America that just reached $10m ARR. They are hiring a founding engineer. Apply here. (SF) Tim from Deeptune is building “training gyms for AI agents.” They are hiring a member of their technical staff. Apply here. (NYC) Raj from Tight is hiring a senior product manager and a marketing manager. They are building an embedded accounting platform. Apply here. (DC) Here’s a list of recommended startups to join from a leading, under-the-radar venture capital fund.
Are you hiring? Send us an email: hi@nextplay.so - we would love to connect you to great candidates and promote you in the newsletter. Scaling startups: Matt from Sage is hiring a client growth manager, a business development executive, and a head content. They are building a caregiving operating system to help older adults. Apply here. (NYC) Mitchell from Basis is building AI for accountants. They recently raised $34m and are hiring founding account executives, founding sales engineers, and software engineers. Apply here. (NYC) Grant from Gamma just announced they reached $50 million+ in ARR and have 50 million+ users all with a team of < 50 people. They are building an AI presentation maker and are hiring product people and a b2b marketing lead. Apply here. (SF) David from Reevo is hiring senior product managers, product marketers, and growth people. They are building a sales pipeline management platform. Apply here. (SF) Rohan worked on “Bugbot” at Cursor. He posted that they hit $10m in ARR in <30 days with just a two person team working on it. He’s looking for founding engineers to join him, and Cursor is more generally hiring account executives and technical account managers. Apply here. (SF, NYC) Jane from Anthropic is hiring a UX researcher. Anthropic also has dozens of other roles open across every department as they hope to build useful AI. Apply here. (SF) Ali from Tabs just announced a $55m fundraise as they 5x’d ARR in the past year. They are building a revenue operations automation platform. They are hiring operations people and salespeople. Apply here. (NYC) Steven from Whop is hiring salespeople, sales operations people, and engineers. They are building a virtual market that has over 1 million monthly users. Apply here. (NYC) Alfred from Listen Labs is hiring account executives, a founding customer success manager, and growth people. They are building AI-led customer interviews for UX and insights. Apply here. (SF) Winston from Harvey reached $100m+ ARR in less than 3 years. They are hiring for every department including strategy, customer success, and engineering. They are building AI for the legal industry. Apply here. (SF, London) Andrei from Console recently raised $23m for their automated IT and support platform. They are hiring a head of applied AI. Apply here. (SF) Carl from Nothing just announced a $200m Series C. They are hiring a chief of staff and for 62 other open roles. Their mission is to make tech feel exciting again (and have built new products like new phones and headphones). Apply here. (London) Ben from Colossal is trying to bring back extinct species (like the mammoth). They are hiring an accounting manager and a senior video editor. Apply here. (Dallas) Aidan from Cohere just raised $500m at a $6.8 billion valuation to help them build enterprise AI. They have 75 open roles including engineering, product management, and sales. Apply here. (London, NYC, Paris)
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