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Y Combinator
Andreessen Horowitz
Sequoia
Accel
Benchmark
Founders Fund
First Round
Kleiner Perkins
Why founding roles
Some people join companies.
Others build them.
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Own the upside
Employee #8 at Airbnb made more from their options than most people make in a lifetime.
Employee #800 got a good salary.
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How founders start
70% of YC founders worked at a startup before starting their own.
This is where that starts.
Founding Jobs in Engineering
Founding AI Engineer Jobs
Build with the most important primitive in software right now. From prototype to production.
Founding Data Scientist Jobs
Turn early signals into decisions. Build the data foundation before the mess sets in.
Founding Engineer Jobs
Build from zero. Own the technical foundation, the stack, and the culture.
Founding Design Engineer Jobs
Prototype in code, think in systems. The rarest skill set in early-stage startups.
Founding Product Engineer Jobs
Ship end-to-end at a company that is still figuring out what end-to-end means.
Founding Jobs in Sales & Marketing
Founding Account Executive Jobs
Land the deals that define the category. Enterprise sales at the earliest stage.
Founding Customer Success Jobs
Keep the customers you worked so hard to win. Build the function that turns retention into revenue.
Founding GTM Jobs
Build the go-to-market engine from first principles. Own revenue from day one.
Founding Growth Manager Jobs
Find the lever, pull it hard. Growth roles at startups where experimentation is the whole job.
Founding Sales Representative Jobs
Close the deals that prove the thesis. First sales roles at startups that are ready to grow.
Founding Jobs in Product & Design
Founding Design Engineer Jobs
Prototype in code, think in systems. The rarest skill set in early-stage startups.
Founding Designer Jobs
Own design end-to-end at a company still figuring it out. From zero-to-one and beyond.
Founding Product Engineer Jobs
Ship end-to-end at a company that is still figuring out what end-to-end means.
Founding Product Manager Jobs
Be the first PM. Own the roadmap and build the product function from scratch.
Founding Jobs in Operations
Founding Chief of Staff Jobs
Work at the center of everything. High-context, high-trust, high-impact.
Founding Finance Manager Jobs
Bring rigor to the runway. Founding finance roles at startups that are ready to get serious.
Founding Marketing Jobs
Create demand where none exists. Build the brand, own the narrative, grow from zero.
Founding Ops Manager Jobs
The role that holds everything together. Strategy, execution, and whatever needs doing.
Founding Partnerships Manager Jobs
Open doors that sales can not. BD and partnerships roles with big distribution ambitions.
Founding Recruiter Jobs
Build the team behind the product. High-trust, high-impact hiring from the ground up.
Live Opportunities
10 founding roles available
Fort
Premium wearable for strength and health tracking
Seed YC SF · NYC Figma
Founding Designer
Equity
0.1% – 0.75%
Salary $150K – $260K
• Fort
Premium wearable for strength and health tracking
Seed YC SF Python
Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Health Algorithms
Equity
0.1% – 0.75%
Salary $180K – $260K
• Thera
Financial OS for modern SMBs
Series A YC NYC TypeScript
Founding Engineer
Equity
0.3% – 1%
Salary $100K – $200K
• ProhostAI
AI-powered operating system for Airbnb and short-term rental hosts
Seed YC Visa SF React
Founding Engineer, Full Stack
Equity
0.2% – 2%
Salary $100K – $190K
• Revyl
AI-native mobile E2E testing on real iOS and Android devices
Seed Felicis SF
Founding GTM Engineer
Equity
1% – 2%
Salary $100K – $200K
• Zeit AI
Enterprise data insights via natural language
Seed YC Visa Munich PostgreSQL
Founding Engineer (Forward-Deployed)
Equity
0.1% – 1%
Salary $70K – $120K
• Zeit AI
Enterprise data insights via natural language
Seed YC Visa Munich PostgreSQL
Founding Engineer (Product)
Equity
0.1% – 1%
Salary $70K – $110K
• Asteroid
AI browser workforce for portal operations.
Seed YC SF Attio
Founding GTM Lead
Equity
0.2% – 0.4%
Salary $120K – $150K
• Asteroid
AI browser workforce for portal operations.
Seed YC SF TypeScript
Founding Product Engineer
Equity
0.2% – 0.4%
Salary $130K – $160K
• Sentra
AI organizational memory for growing startups.
Seed a16z SF Figma
Founding Product Designer
Equity
0.2% – 0.4%
Salary $150K – $170K
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