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Announcement: We’re testing out launching the “Next Play Job Search Accelerator.” It’s a 4-week remote program designed to help you land a startup role you love.
Here’s what to expect:
Figure out what you’re looking for and identify startups worth pursuing.
Get matched with a small (hand-curated) peer group of people at a similar career stage for accountability, feedback and support.
Learn how to position yourself and create opportunities.
We’re kicking off the next cohort on August 31st, 2026. Join the Friends of Next Play Slack to get access. We’re excited for this. Hopeful this program can help loads of people land new and exciting opportunities. Email us hi@nextplay.so if you have any questions. Talk soon.
Co-founders and people to jam with:
Steve spent 8+ years across restructuring investment banking, real estate PE, and corporate finance, currently at RXR, also makes music and DJs. Exploring something that connects people, drawing on his finance and operating experience. Looking for people gestating ideas who need real financial advice on their venture. Reach out at stevenpsiegel@gmail.com. (NY)
Maarten is a product builder with a background in payments (Adyen, IPO) and manufacturing, scaled and sold multiple companies. Building B2B AI-native products. Looking for co-founders with an idea or industry gap. Reach out at hello@maartenzoet.nl. (Amsterdam)
Geoff spent 13.5 years at Salesforce leading enterprise commercial strategy for the biggest strategic-account deals, Wharton MBA, engineering background. Building enterprise performance orchestration, a “Bloomberg terminal for operators” using proprietary operational benchmarks. Looking for a technical co-founder strong in data-intensive apps, financial data, or AI SaaS. Reach out at geoffrey.r.morrissett@gmail.com. (SF)
Here’s a brand new list of people that are actively looking for a co-founder.
By the way are you hiring? Send us a quick email: hi@nextplay.so. We can help connect you to great engineers, ops people, salespeople, and more. Our community is now over 91,000+ people!
Early teams:
Yaniv from take2 is hiring a forward deployed engineer. They are building AI agents for healthcare recruiting. Apply here. (NYC)
Anshul from Hyde is hiring an AI builder/FDE. They are building specialist AI models for high-stakes enterprise workflows. Apply here. (NYC)
Will from Unto Labs is hiring a marketing lead. They are building products that change how people interact with their money, like developing standards for the Thru blockchain. Apply here. (SF)
Alex from Reflex is hiring a growth lead. They are building a full-stack development platform for Python. Apply here. (SF)
Rui from Dimensional is hiring a FDE and a product manager and a member of technical staff (firmware focused). They are building foundation models for physical intelligence. Apply here. (SF, Shenzhen)
Josh from Artos is hiring a growth marketing manager and a founding account executive. They are building tools that help biotech companies automate R&D documentation. Apply here. (SF)
Grace from The Intelligence Company is hiring engineers and also have an open general application. They grew to $60m ARR and 5.5m users with a team of only 10 people. They are building DesignArena, an interface that helps generate real-world feedback and distribution for AI. Apply here. (SF)
Langston from Vals is hiring a head of research as well as software engineers. They are building an independent evaluator of AI. Apply here. (SF)
Ronak from Trajectory is hiring generalist engineers. They are building a platform for continual learning. Apply here. (SF)
Antonin from River Markets is hiring a financial operations lead. They are building a prime brokerage for prediction markets. Apply here. (SF)
Eugene from Featherless is hiring a founding business development person. They are building an open-source inference platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Alistair from Cosine is hiring a founding head of financial services. They are building a UK-based frontier AI lab for autonomous software engineering. Apply here. (London)
Kevin from Centari is hiring a founding GTM lead. They are building an AI platform for deal intelligence. Apply here. (NYC)
Joe from Alloy Robotics is hiring a founding chief of staff and a growth generalist. They are building a data platform for robotics. Apply here. (Sydney, SF)
Vaughn from Kivo Health is hiring a product manager. They are building AI-powered care for seniors with chronic disease. Apply here. (Seattle)
Pooria from Agave is hiring a customer solutions engineer. They are building AI financial operations for contractors. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Here’s a new list of companies we just made that are now hiring after raising $10m-$50m.
Scaling startups:
Maggie from Knit is hiring a lead product manager. They are building an AI-native research platform used by dozens of enterprise brands. Apply here. (NYC)
Kashish from Hightouch is hiring across every department: sales, engineering, customer success, and more. They are building AI for marketers. Apply here. (Remote, SF, NYC)
Harjot from CodeRabbit is hiring for 48 roles: product, sales, and recruiting. They are building the leading AI code review platform with over 17,000 customers and 150,000+ open source projects. Apply here. (SF, Boston)
Igor from River is hiring a founding GTM lead. They just raised $1 billion. They are building a new stack for personal AI. Apply here. (SF)
Mitchell from Basis is hiring a founding demand generation manager. They are building AI for accounting, and raised $100m a few months ago. Apply here. (NYC)
Eugen from Edra is hiring AI strategists and salespeople. They are building AI models that learn how your business works and then automates it. Apply here. (London, NYC)
Aayush from Blacksmith is hiring a startups lead. They hit $50m ARR in 2.5 years with their infrastructure platform that lets developers run CI workloads really fast. Apply here. (SF)
Jesse from Decagon is hiring deployment strategists, product people, and engineers. They are building the leading conversational AI platform. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Eric from Firecrawl is hiring a head of growth marketing and a head of product. They are building a context API for AI agents. Apply here. (SF)
Francis from PermitFlow is hiring a business operations manager and a chief of staff. They are building AI for the construction industry. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)
Mike from Traba is hiring a head of operations, product people, and engineers. They are building labor and intelligence for the industrial supply chain. Apply here. (NYC)
Apurva from Avoca is hiring a business operations manager and a partnerships manager. They are building the AI front office for services businesses. Apply here. (NYC)
Brendan from Sesame is hiring a people lead and a head of sales. They are building personal intelligence via products like a smart pair of glasses. Apply here. (SF, Seattle, NYC)
Tuhin from baseten is hiring for 72 open roles. They just raised a $1.5 billion Series F and are building a mission-critical inference platform. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Investing and other:
First Round is hiring a founding GTM person that embeds in their portfolio. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Primary Venture Partners is hiring a head of AI. Apply here. (NYC)
Alumni Ventures is hiring a community manager. Apply here. (Boston)
Resources and tools:
Whale Tank: A remote pitch contest where you could win $250.
Here’s a practical system we wrote about you can use to find a job at a startup.
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