Edition 4: Join The Buzz

Biz, Ops & Investment Roles At Early Stage Startups

June 28, 2024

Welcome to the fourth edition! I share impactful Biz, Ops, and Investment roles at early-stage startups and VCs.

Join The Buzz has now reached 100 subscribers. Although this is a small feat, it is still a key milestone, so I wanted to share it with you all.

I have added notes on why I think each job is impactful. Let me know if you find these notes useful.

Fewer Than 10 Employees: 

Remote:

  • Chief of Staff | Product Manager | Marketing Manager, Yellow (Enterprise);

    • Founded by stellar founders - Mandeep Waraich (Ex. Head of Product at Google, and founder/CEO of Adio. - acquired by Target) along with Vincent Sitzmann, Ludwig Schmidt, and Christian Rupprecht. Backed by a16z, Yellow is a revolutionary human-centric 3D generation tool to make production-ready assets for the gaming, media, and entertainment sectors.

  • Co-founder & CEO, Foundry (Incubator);

    • For the most part the foundry companies are built around internal ideas. They come up with an idea, diligence the heck out of it, then recruit a cofounder & CEO. Once they have the team they invest some capital and help get the company started.

  • Chief of Staff | Founding Account Executive, Cake AI (AI);

    • Making cutting-edge AI accessible to every business. Both roles work very closely with the founder and will be pivotal in the success of the company. Backed by Primary Venture Partners

  • Operations and Investment Associate, Four Cities Capital (VC);

    • Investing in category-defining technology companies. Prior Investments - Deel, Jasper ai, Hippo, Roofr

  • Founder in Residence, Cache Ventures, Incubator

New York:

California:

  • Chief Revenue Officer, A New Space Company In El Segundo

  • Founding GTM, Mintlify (Enterprise);

    • This has been the most popular YC product used by other YC companies in the past four years. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures, YC

  • Chief of Staff, Hedra (Consumer AI);

    • Building a universal platform for content generation. Within 48 hours of launching, they had tens of thousands of users producing over 100,000 videos. Backed by Index Ventures, a16z

Others:

Early But Not Too Early:

Remote:

  • Sales Operations, Finley (FinTech);

    • This is their first sales ops hire so you will be building the blueprint for their sales and marketing infrastructure. Backed by YC, Bain Capital Ventures, CRV, Upper90

  • Account Manager, Onaroll (HospitalityTech);

    • First Account Manager Hire Helping With Revenue Expansion and Retention. Backed by Gradient Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, FoundersFund, Lux Capital

New York: 

  • Portfolio Investment Associate, Pronghorn Co (CVC)

    • If you are interested in the spirits industry, highly recommend applying. I worked for a beer company previous, and it has it’s perks.

  • Product Lead | Sales Development Representative Daytona io (DevTech);

    • I have seen a lot of great reviews of their product. They are enabling developers in building more efficiently. Backed by Upfront Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, 500 Global

  • Account Executive, Mosaic (Financial Advisory)

  • Business Operations | Client Strategy Manager Accrue Savings (Consumer);

    • They help consumers get more value with their money. These roles report directly to the CEO + pays really really well. Backed by Ground Up Ventures, Tiger Global

  • TSV Associate, Two Sigma (VC);

    •  Investing in early-stage, data-driven startups. Prior investments: Remote, Flatfile, GitLab, Recursion, Insitro, Carbon Health, Whoop

  • Strategy & Ops Lead, Prosper (HealthTech);

    • Focused on improving the lives of 8 million autistic adults in the US. Strong early traction. Backed by

California:

  • Partner, In-Q-Tel, VC;

    • Defense focused VC firm with early investments in Anduril, Palantir, Databricks

  • Senior Product Manager, Stan (Consumer);

    • Building Shopify For Content Creators. Backed by Forerunner, Pear, Norwest

Others: 

  • Customer Success Manager, Delightress (Enterprise), CO;

    • Franchisees can be one of the most profitable businesses if done right and they help emerging franchises scale efficiently using tech. Backed by Accel, Emergent Ventures, Axilor

Late But Still Very Impactful :

  • Manager, Strategic Investments, NFL, NY;

    • If you are a football enthusiast this one’s definitely for you.

  • Impact Investment Associate, Mass Mutual Catalyst Funds (CVC), MA;

  • Program Manager, TrueAnomaly (SpaceTech), CO;

    • Solving Operational Challenges For Space Security And Sustainability. Backed by Menlo Ventures, ACME

  • Revenue Ops, Hex Tech (Enterprise), Remote;

    • Work With A Stellar Founder In Building Software Platform For Collaborative Data Science And Analytics. Backed by a16z, Sequoia, Liquid2Ventures

  • Investment Interns, Antler (Accelerator), TX;

    • Work at one of the best upcoming Accelerators

  • Someone Magical, Antler (Accelerator), NY;

    • Open ended position and you get to work directly with Jeff Becker (Partner at Antler. Ex. LinkedIn, Forum Ventures, Co-founder of Earhoox)

  • Business Operations & Strategy Lead, Notion, CA;

    • I love their product and although I don’t know the founder personally, he seems like someone you would learn a lot from.

  • Investor Relations Associate, BCapital, NY;

    • This role is great to build relations with some of the largest LPs in the world.

  • Chief of Staff, Scale AI (Enterprise AI), CA;

    • Work closely with the VP of Generative AI in accelerating the development of generative AI.

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