$100m startups, ai fighter jets, and other exciting jobs!
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👋 Hey folks,
It’s Jordan again from Job Hunting Sucks, hoping to make that statement a little less true every week.
We’ve curated hot openings in tech + must-reads if you’re job searching right now…readable in less than 10 minutes!
Startup Spotlight: Decagon
Pitchbook reported that AI startups account for $6 of every $10 raised this quarter. Decagon’s 28 job openings are a great place to start if you're swept up in that zeitgeist.
Decagon is building advanced customer service AI agents for Duolingo, Notion, Rippling, Eventbrite, and more. They’ve raised $100M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, and plenty of angels you’d recognize.
One of their customers, Faire, describes Decagon as “turning our customer enablement strategy upside down…eliminating the drag on engineering and product resources.”
Being a customer service-focused company, Decagon's culture is built around helping others. The team is highly entrepreneurial, focused on speed, feedback collection, and earning user love.
If you’re interested in making it easier for businesses to serve customers, check out their openings here!
More High-Growth Opportunities
Miss our games jobs? You’re in luck: Bonfire Studios is looking for artists, engineers, and business professionals. Apply here. (Orange County, CA)
Mintlify is building AI-native, collaborative documentation for developers. They’re hiring in sales, engineering, customer success, and growth (including an open Head of Growth role 👀). Apply here. (SF)
Vantage is leading the cloud infrastructure cost-cutting space and is trusted by Square and Vercel. They are hiring across all functions, including customer success, design, engineering, and sales. Apply here. (NYC, Remote)
Sydecar is automating fund managers’ operational headaches so they can focus on deal sourcing and helping founders. They are hiring engineers, HR specialists, product managers, and engineers. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
ClickUp is all you need to be productive at work. Their document sharing, project management, and AI tools have powered over 2 million teams. ClickUp is hiring in engineering, growth, ops, and customer success. Apply here. (Remote)
Shield AI is building an AI pilot that has successfully flown a fighter jet. They’re heavily recruiting engineers with a few product openings, too. Apply here. (Washington, D.C.)
Maya from Stellic recently posted about openings across the board with a strong focus on engineers. They’re a degree management suite for college students that raised an $11 million Series A. Apply here (San Mateo)
Daniel, cofounder of Layer, is looking to build his core engineering team. Layer is an all-in-one accounting platform built for small businesses. Apply here. (SF)
Loop is building post-purchase automation tools to track and streamline the return process. Erica announced that Loop is hiring product managers, engineers, account executives, and more. Apply here. (Remote in US+)
Job Search Tips
Optimize LinkedIn cold outreach.
If you’re contacting recruiters through LinkedIn, you can’t miss this post by Kevin Shim. After trying several templates, he found an effective method for getting responses: condensing why you’re a good fit for a job in a few bullet points. Keep it concise, confident, and direct.
This format can be adjusted to fit cold emails as well!
Bonus Reads
How to Get Hired at a Startup by Michael Karnjanaprakorn highlights how different the hiring process is for lean organizations versus incumbents.
Cities and Ambition, a 2008 piece by Paul Graham, discusses what ambition looks like in different major cities. To an extent, it’s a generalized product of its time. But as you’re applying to jobs in many of these places, you should ask yourself what each location might bring out of you.
Have ideas for job openings you’d like to see? Thoughts on what you’ve read today? Hit reply—we’d love to hear from you.
Until next week 🫡