Get on the ground floor with the founding team of a pre-seed or seed-stage startup.
Inferact is hiring a Founding Product Designer in SF. Your focus will be giving Inferact and vLLM a distinct visual identity, sharp brand presence, and highly intuitive developer product experiences. This is a 0 → 1, full-stack design role for a creator with high aesthetic taste, deep technical curiosity, and an AI-native way of executing. Apply here!
Periodic Labs is hiring a Founding HR Leader in Menlo Park, CA for up to $350K. You’ll build the people function from scratch - designing comp, performance, and onboarding systems built for how physicists, scientists, and ML researchers actually work, not borrowed from a standard HR playbook. Apply here!
Lassie is hiring a Head of Marketing in SF. You’ll build Lassie’s marketing engine from the ground up - owning demand generation, cracking the message through customer insight and experimentation, and turning what works into repeatable, AI-native growth systems. Apply here!
David Zagaynov is hiring an Operations Associate for Poseidon. You’ll work directly with the BizOps Manager on the operational side of the company, with a focus on the day-to-day execution that keeps an aerospace startup moving fast. DM David if you’re interested!
David Zagaynov@DavidZagaynov
We're hiring an Operations Associate at Poseidon! You'll work directly with our BizOps Manager on the operational side of the company with a focus on the day-to-day execution that keeps an aerospace startup moving fast. Early career welcome, DM me or apply on our website!
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Accelerate the growth of a Series A, B, or C startup with early momentum.
Lio is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in NYC. You’ll be Lio’s first FDE in the US, working with Fortune 500 procurement teams to build enterprise integrations and turn their real-world requirements into scalable product features. Apply here!
Northwood Space is hiring a Product Design Lead in LA for up to $200K. You’ll own a phased-array antenna system end to end - from architecture and requirements through prototyping, testing, and field deployment - coordinating across mechanical, electrical, RF, and embedded teams. Apply here!
Atoms is hiring a Software Engineer, Onboard in SF for up to $242K. You’ll write low-latency C++ that runs directly on the vehicle’s edge compute - controlling hardware, routing sensor data, and building the real-time diagnostics and fault-recovery systems that keep it running mid-drive. Apply here!
Shreya Murthy is hiring a Finance Lead in NYC to help build Partiful’s finance function from the ground up. You’ll work directly with leadership on fundraising, operations, revenue, and growth. Apply here!
Patch is hiring a Lead Brand Designer in SF for up to $210K. You’ll be creative director of Patch’s entire visual identity - owning everything from the website and flagship reports to sales decks and campaigns - while art-directing a bench of outside contractors to scale output without losing craft. Apply here!
PlanetScale is hiring a Video Producer in SF for up to $200K. As their first dedicated video hire, you’ll own everything from concept to final cut - filming on location at customer sites and events, then editing it all yourself across YouTube, launches, and social. Apply here!
Treeline is hiring a Head of Compliance (remote). It’s a dual mandate: build and own Treeline’s own SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance program from scratch, then turn that same expertise into a revenue-generating Compliance-as-a-Service offering for customers. Apply here!
Everlaw is hiring a Content Marketing Manager in Oakland, CA for up to $152K. You’ll turn complex legal narratives into articles, whitepapers, and case studies that drive organic search traffic and educate prospects on how AI is changing litigation work. Apply here!
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Join a growth-stage startup scaling to its next horizon.
Zipline just signed a contract with Uber to make 1 million deliveries per day by 2029! As part of this partnership, Uber is also making a strategic investment in Zipline. The vision is to "make the future fly" and deliver anything people need in just 5-10 mins - and help companies reach 10x as many customers through Zipline's tech and extensive drone network. Zipline is hiring across the board - check out open roles here.
Keller Cliffton@Keller
What if your dinner could fly over traffic instead of sitting in it? We are now scaling to provide Uber Eats more than 1 million autonomous deliveries a day. Uber is becoming an investor in Zipline. We’ve entered the scaling era for robotics and physical AI.
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EliseAI is hiring a Deployment Strategist, Future Platforms in NYC. You'll help found EliseAI's accounting platform function from scratch - working directly with Controllers and CFOs to configure chart-of-accounts, migrate financial data, and turn early implementations into repeatable playbooks as the team pushes toward fully autonomous back-office operations. Apply here!
Katie Dill (Head of Design at Stripe) is hiring a Staff Product Designer, Link. You’ll define the visual design direction for Link’s newest, pre-roadmap bets - building new visual languages and component systems from a blank canvas as Link expands from checkout into its own app and across Stripe’s AI partnerships. Apply here!
Katie Dill@lil_dill
We're hiring a bunch of roles, but one in particular I wanted to highlight is for Link—our consumer product helping more than 300M people pay in a click, protect purchases, manage finances, and shop via agent! Join us!!!
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Stripe Careers | Staff Product Designer, Link
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Figma is hiring a Brand Designer, Product Launches for up to $269K in SF / NYC. You’ll turn complex product strategy into the visual storytelling behind major launches - building storyboards and styleframes with product marketing, motion, and product design teams to make each launch feel like a story people actually connect with. Apply here!
Last but certainly not least… our a16z New Media team is hiring! I’m personally looking for scrappy engineers and X-native social leads in SF. Email me!
Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg
We're hiring again at New Media. Our team does storytelling for our firm and our companies (and in part, our industry) including working closely with SpaceX, OpenAI, and many others. We run many of the firm's networks and we also have a couple incubations in the works. We're
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