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

Ben Lang

Apr 14

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Co-founders and people to jam with:

We just collected a new list of great people (engineers, former founders, salespeople, etc.) who are actively open to meeting a co-founder. You can view the full list here.
Felix previously built and sold Troop. They are building a new kind of financial protection layer for businesses, covering risks that traditional insurance won’t touch. They are looking for a co-founder, especially someone with experience in sales/GTM/marketing. Reach out: felixtabary@gmail.com.
Mayank is currently the VP of data at the European Wax Center which has 1300 locations and does 25 million annual transactions, and was previously an SVP of engineering and AI. They are looking for a co-founder. Reach out: mayank.raj.work@gmail.com.
Brian is exploring an opportunity to build an enterprise SaaS platform in partnership with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Redesign Health, to automate patient discharge from hospitals and improve quality of care. They are looking for a co-founder, ideally someone technical. Reach out: bakselrad@gmail.com.

Looking to get introduced to great candidates quickly? Email us (hi@nextplay.so), we’d love to help you find the right people and get exposure to the community.

Early teams:

Bobby from Protege is hiring salespeople. They are building a real world data platform for ai development. Apply here. (Remote)
Dan from Untitled is hiring a software engineer. They are building an operating system for music, that’s raised $22m and has over 13000 five-star reviews on the app store. Apply here. (Remote)
Andrew, the founder of Firebase and now Tasklet, is hiring for customer success, growth marketing, and a chief of staff. They grew 1200% this year to $5M ARR, and just raised $20m from USV for their cloud agent OS for work. Apply here. (SF)
Stephen from Roamr is hiring a head of marketing. They are building a corporate travel platform that pays employees more to stay with friends instead of at hotels. Apply here. (Remote)
Ross from Yoshi is hiring an applied AI engineer. They are building an AI powered personal finance platform that’s backed by Ribbit Capital. Reach out: Ross@yoshi.ai. (Remote)
Greg from Tuvoli is hiring a chief of staff. They are building a software platform for the private aviation and chartering industry. Apply here. (New Hampshire)
Bennett from Maintouch is hiring engineers and marketing people. They grew ARR 2x in the last quarter. They are building an automated SEO + AI SEO platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Jake from Leland is hiring a head of sales. They are building a platform that connects coaches and content to students. Apply here. (Lehi, Utah)
Tom is helping a stealth high-growth profitable company hire a chief of staff. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)
David, the host of the All-in-Podcast, is hiring a strategic sourcing and procurement manager. They are building Ohalo Genetics, which is building a proprietary plant breeding technology. Apply here. (SF)
Annette from Amdahl helps growth-stage marketing teams turn live customer data into ready-to-use marketing. They are hiring a founding growth lead to scale 0 to 1 marketing. Apply here. (SF)
Peter from Treeline is hiring a head of customer success and a salesperson. They are building an IT and security platform, and just raised a $25m series A. Apply here. (SF, LA, Austin, Remote)

Scaling startups:

Megan from Fleetworks is hiring salespeople and deployment strategists. They went from $0 to $2m ARR in 8 months. They are building an always-on assistant for the freight industry. Apply here. (Chicago, SF)
Francesca from Factory is hiring strategic partnerships leads. They are building an agentic software development platform. Apply here. (SF)
Frank from Forge is hiring salespeople, a head of growth, and a GTM engineer. They grew 17% last month with their outbound AI platform. Apply here. (Remote, London)
Ben from Omnea is hiring across every department: GTM, customer, partnerships, engineers, and more. they raised $75m to redesign enterprise procurement. They have 10x’d revenue over 18 months. Apply here. (NYC, London)
Evan from Garner Health is hiring a senior product manager. They are building a healthcare benefits platform for employers. Apply here. (NYC)
Darien from Parallel Web Systems is hiring GTM people, a recruiter, and a head of marketing. They recently raised $100m to scale their web search API for agents. Apply here. (SF)
Ryan, the Head of Growth (Publishing) at Stripe, is hiring a Social Media Lead for Works in Progress, a Stripe-published print magazine, newsletter, and podcast. Apply here. (Remote, London)
Ryan from Lovable is hiring an “AI-pilled” executive assistant. They are building an AI-powered app builder. Apply here. (Remote)
Spencer from After Query is hiring operations people. They grew to $100m revenue run rate and just raised $30m at a $300m valuation for their data training and collection platform. Apply here. (SF)
Matthew from Anthropic is hiring for a new type of role: tech productivity leads, ideal for former product marketing managers and sales engineers. Apply here. (NYC, SF)
Ryan from Kalshi is hiring someone to help lead international expansion. They are building a leading prediction markets platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Isaiah from Bland is hiring a content marketer. They raised $65m for their voice AI for enterprise phone call platform. Apply here. (SF)
Arush from Modus is hiring a product manager, a growth person, and an M&A person. They just raised $80m to bring AI to accounting firms. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Here’s a list of 36 teams now hiring after $100m raise.

Investing and other:

Michael is one of five partners at Quiet Capital managing $5 billion. They are hiring a principal investor. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Lauri from BVP is hiring an investment associate to focus on AI investments. Apply here. (SF)
Nikhil from Footwork is hiring someone to help automate their internal operations. Apply here. (SF)

Resources and tools:

Career hypnosis: ideas to help you think more clearly about your career.
15 ideas to help you build a better personal network.
Tasty: Thoughts about “taste.”
We’ve been releasing more and more new features on the Next Play website. You can now find and filter through loads more job opportunities. Curious what you think!

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