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Enterprise Hackathon Lead at Lovable, former Google Health AI engineer, 28 roles at Fleetworks

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

Ben Lang

Dec 9

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✨ Hey there this is a free edition of next play’s newsletter, where we share under-the-radar opportunities to help you figure out what’s next in your journey. Join our private Slack community here and access $1000s of dollars of product discounts here.

Win from last week: Neal (previously a chief business officer) met his co-founder JD (previously a director of engineering) via the Next Play Community. Now they’re building Amma (a next-generation patient advocacy company). (And they already have customers. If you’re managing a parent or loved one’s care (Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer, chronic illness, etc.), reach out at neal@withamma.co)

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Co-founders and people to jam with:

Darshan is a physician and software engineer, and previously worked at places like Google Health AI and RO. He’s looking for co-founders to jam on ideas and build in the healthcare space. Reach out here.
Tatyana was a head of operations and strategy at Waymo, Airbnb, and Dropbox. She’s building a platform in the “future of work” space and is looking for a product-leaning co-founder. Reach out: notatyana.bezuglova@gmail.com.
Vittorio is a portfolio manager/data science/quant background working on LendInsure, a platform that brings embedded finance to the insurance world. He’s looking for a co-founder. Reach out: vittorio.damioli@gmail.com.

Early teams:

Kelly from Arbor is hiring a founding product manager. They are building a platform that helps billion dollar enterprises turn offline conversations into actionable intelligence. Apply here. (NYC)
Rezi from Jampack is building an AI agent for wholesale operations. They are hiring founding engineers. If you’re excited about their mission and don’t see an open role, they recommend you apply anyways! Apply here. (NYC, Remote)
Julie from Rentana is hiring their first marketing person, as well as sales and customer success people. They are building an ai revenue intelligence platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Saksham from Runable is They are hiring a designer engineer to work directly with the founder. Reach out: saksham@runable.com. (Bangalore)
Mallory from Boomerang is hiring a chief of staff. They are building an hr software platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Joey from Craftwork is hiring a growth generalist. They are building a tech-enabled painting company. Apply here. (Charlotte)
Bryan from Topkey is hiring an account executive. They are building an ai financial automation platform for property managers. Apply here. (Austin)
Conner from Ditto is building a new social app (something like Finsta meets Tumblr meets Notes). They are hiring a growth marketing lead. Apply here. (NYC)
Vinoo from Keru is hiring a chief of staff. They are building a platform to transform how financial teams conduct research. Apply here. (NYC)
Ian from Fin is hiring a product manager, a business development lead, and a sales lead. They are building a stablecoin-powered platform for payments. Apply here. (NYC, Remote)
Lowell from Supper is hiring a forward deployed data analyst and account executives. They are building an AI-powered data agent. Apply here. (NYC)
Ang from Simular is hiring a founding go to market person. They are building research-driven AI agents. Apply here. (SF, Remote, SIngapore)
Darren from Sante is building an all-in-one POS for liquor stores. They are hiring an account executive. Apply here. (NYC)
Alex from Unlimited is hiring a generalist and a forward deployed engineer. They are building a physical infrastructure development platform. Apply here. (SF)
Will from Unusual is hiring a founding BDR. They are building a platform that helps change how AI talks about your brand. Apply here. (SF)
Here’s a list we made of 34 tiny startups that are now hiring.

Are you hiring? Let us know: hi@nextplay.so. We’d love to connect you to candidates.

Scaling startups:

Karthik from Sift is hiring account managers, engineers, and recruiters. They are building a platform for aerospace, defense, and robotics companies to accelerate their engineering speed. Apply here. (LA, SF)
Paul from Fleetworks is hiring for 28 roles: product leads, product marketers, forward deployed engineers, and software engineers. They are building a platform that automates the freight booking process. Apply here. (SF, Chicago)
Anton from Lovable is hiring someone to be an “Enterprise Hackathon Lead” (and for many other roles). They are building a text to app and websites platform. Apply here. (Boston, SF, Stockholm)
Chamath from Social Capital / The All in Podcast incubated a company called 8090, that is an ai-native system to give people control over their SFDC. They did over $20m in revenue in 2025 and are aiming for $100m in 2026. They are hiring a technical program manager to work directly with customers. Apply here. (SF, Toronto)
Erik from Doordash is hiring a senior associate to work on new verticals. Apply here. (NYC, SF, Chicago, LA)
Francis from PermitFlow just raised a $54m Series B for their construction ai platform. They are hiring for 35 open roles including a head of marketing, salespeople, and more. Apply here. (NYC)
Stephen from OpenAI is hiring a business operations lead to work on the b2b product. Apply here. (SF)
Jordan from Antares just raised $96m and is hiring a recruiter. They are building fission microreactors. Apply here. (LA)
Neil from Gradium just raised a $70m seed round for their voice AI platform. They are hiring an account executive and engineers. Apply here. (Paris)
Tarek from Kalshi just raised at an $11 billion valuation. They are hiring growth, compliance, and finance people. Apply here. (NYC)
Martin from Diamond Foundry is hiring marketers and salespeople. They are developing synthetic diamonds. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)
Here’s a list we made of 24 startups that just raised $100m+ and are hiring.