roles at breakout startups, co-founder searches, early startups hiring
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Co-founders and people to jam with:
An anonymous full-stack engineer and 3x founder is looking to meet a cofounder and join as CTO. They currently run a profitable open-source AI SaaS as a solo founder, and previously grew a product to 200k+ signups. Reach out to hi@nextplay.so and we’ll try to connect you.
Phillip has been an engineering lead and director of engineering across many large projects. He’s interested in cofounding and building out and scaling a software team. Reach out: pdunham@gmail.com.
Ben previously was a founder and a director at a venture studio. He is now looking to co-found a company in the healthcare world. Reach out: burleyben@gmail.com.
Looking to meet someone to build projects with? Check out these two lists: 43 people actively looking for a co-founder and the updated list of people looking to found something new.
Hiring? Email us (hi@nextplay.so), we’d love to help you find the right people and get exposure to the community.
Early teams:
Andrew from The General Intelligence Company is hiring a head of agentic marketing and an agents research lead. Apply here. (NYC)
Kaushal from Atomus is hiring software engineers and account executives. They are building a security and compliance platform for defense companies. Apply here. (SF)
Jordan from Turnstile is hiring a head of product marketing. They are building a quote-to-cash platform for sales teams. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Mark from Dragin is hiring a chief of staff. They are building an AI-powered underwriting platform for revenue-based financing. Apply here. (NYC)
Carolina from Opus Health is hiring a head of GTM and customer success. They are building a healthcare payments platform. Apply here. (Austin, NYC, Remote)
Joshua from Valinor is hiring for a “general application.” They are building a holding company focused on creating new defense products. Apply here. (Washington DC)
Nick from Domu is hiring a founding account executive. They are building AI agents for intelligent servicing/collections. Apply here. (SF)
Finn from Kapa is hiring a GTM associate. They are building a fast way to build AI assistants to answer questions about technical products. Apply here. (NYC)
Trey from Pure is hiring a founding GTM/sales leader. They are building a marketplace for rare coins and precious metals. Apply here. (Los Angeles)
Caelan from Gauge is hiring a founding salesperson. They are building a marketing agent for organic, paid, and AI search. Apply here. (SF)
Farah from Nectar Social is hiring a founding marketer and a founding recruiter. They are building an AI platform for community management. Apply here. (SF)
Nicholas from Sphere is hiring a founding customer success person. They are building an AI-native tax engine to automate sales tax, VAT, and more. They have customers like Lovable, Deel, and many others. Apply here. (SF)
Braden from a stealth AI procurement platform is hiring an operations lead/head of ops. They are automating an important process in a legacy industry. Apply here. (NYC)
Birju from Rec is hiring salespeople, a senior product manager, and a deployment strategist. They are building a platform that enables parks and rec staff to transform their spaces into recreational activity centers. Apply here. (SF, Chicago)
Jack is hiring a chief of staff. They are a content creator consultant and creator of several newsletters with hundreds of thousands of followers. Apply here. (Remote)
Here’s a list we made of 35 tiny teams currently hiring.
Reminder you can sign up for the free next play platform (<1 minute) to be able to filter/search for specific job opportunities at hot startups.
Scaling startups:
Richard from You.com is hiring a head of revenue operations, software engineers, a senior product manager. They are building a web search API for AI. Apply here. (Remote, SF)
Ryan from Primer is hiring a head of schools. They are building a growing network of k-8 schools across the US. Apply here. (Remote, SF)
Lennard from Langdock is hiring across every department: marketing, partnerships, sales, and more. They reached $30m in ARR last year (up from $4m 365 days ago). They are building a platform that helps enterprises adopt AI. Apply here. (Berlin)
Filip and Robert are hiring a senior frontend engineer and a product designer. They raised $30m to build Sauna, an AI multiplayer brain that learns your context and automates repetitive work. Apply here (SF).
Samir from Allocate is hiring a director of people operations and relationship managers. They are building an operating system for private markets investing that grew 300% YoY up to $4b+ in assets on the platform. Apply here. (Remote, NYC, SF)
Sam from Felt is hiring in operations, customer success, and sales. They are building a platform that makes it really easy to build maps. Apply here. (SF)
Remy from Lorikeet is hiring a founder’s associate to work on the biz ops team, and also forward deployed engineers. They are building an AI customer concierge for complex companies. Apply here. (Sydney, Remote)
Alex from Faire is hiring a growth marketing manager to focus on paid social. They are building an online wholesale marketplace powering 100s of thousands of brands. Apply here. (NYC, SF)
Paul from Havoc is hiring a director of revenue operations and a project manager. They are building collaborative for boats, drones, and land vehicles. Apply here. (Remote, Austin, San Diego)
Richard from Recursive is hiring across many engineering and research opportunities. They just raised $650m to build super-intelligence that learns from itself. Apply here. (SF, London)
Baiju previously founded Robinhood. Now he’s building Cowboy Space, and is hiring across engineering and people ops. They are building infrastructure to power and connect the orbital economy, and just raised $275m. Apply here. (Seattle, San Carlos)
Demis from Isomorphic Labs is hiring talent people and engineers. They just raised $2.1 billion. Their ambitious mission is to end disease. Apply here. (London, Boston)
Anjney from AMP is hiring for many roles. They just raised $1.2 billion to build an independent AI grid. Apply here. (SF)
Alex from the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company is hiring a founding recruiter. They are building a platform to underwrite AI, as they red-team, certify, and insure agents. Apply here. (SF)
Harrison from OpenFX is hiring a head of marketing. They are building a more efficient money movement platform. They grew revenue 10x in the last year, reaching $60b+ in annualized TPV in less than two years. Apply here. (Miami, London)
Sushanth from Pallet is hiring a founding GTM strategy associate. They are building AI to transform logistics, and have raised $50m and grew revenue 700% in the last year. Apply here. (SF)
Dylan from Polymarket is hiring a partnerships person to focus on sports. They are building a prediction markets platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Cynthia from SF Compute is hiring a people and talent acquisitions leader. They are building a liquid market for GPU offtake. Apply here. (SF)
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