Founder Associate, Svix
$140-175k
+ Equity
Webhooks-as-a-Service platform
Open for applications
Webhooks-as-a-Service platform
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$140-175k
+ Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make webhooks easy and ubiquitous.
Role
Who you are
- Project management: know how to manage projects, create plans, and execute against them while keeping everything organized
- AI forward: have used Claude Code or Codex successfully for real use-cases. Understand (high-level) some of the technical aspects including context window, tool-calling, subagents, and more. Excited and curious about leveraging these tools to increase our leverage
- Automations: used tools to create automations around common workflows
- Strategic thinking: demonstrate the ability to think in both the micro and macro levels, and how to effectively plan and execute to reach long-horizon goals
- Competent with computers: you don’t need to be an engineer, but you can’t be a luddite. You need to be a proficient user of computers
- Research, learning and consumption of information: you’re able to pickup up new topics quickly and be able to execute in new domains in short amounts of time
- Work in ambiguity: startups operate in high ambiguity environments. You need to be able to successfully plan and execute with missing information and constantly adapt as new information presents itself
- Scientific: you need to know how to construct good experiments, read data, and draw conclusions
- Smart: raw intelligence and quick thinker
- Resourceful: scrappy as a default, but also spends when needed
- Wants to win: driven, competitive, and focused on winning
- High energy: knows there’s a lot to be done, and has the energy to push it forward
- High agency: figures out what needs to be done and does it. Finds solutions to problems, and realizes we control our own destiny
- Not lazy: willing to do the work, automating when needed, but not outsourcing thinking. LLMs are a powerful tool, but they shouldn’t replace thinking or be used for things they are not suitable for
- Thorough: follows tasks through to completion and pays close attention to detail, ensuring nothing is overlooked and the quality is high
- Values aligned: aligned with our values
- We like candidates with varied backgrounds - don't be shy, apply!
- Hackers/OSS devs welcome, even without extensive work history
- All roles are full-time - no students or part-time
What the job involves
- We are looking for a top performer to work closely with the founder. You'll get to affect and learn all aspects of the business, see how decision are made, build a broad skill set, and developer your network. You will also get to experiment with AI for real company use-cases, and work at the cutting edge
- Expect high-intensity, a fast-paced startup environment, smart colleagues, and the opportunity to do your life's work helping us become a generation defining developer infrastructure company
- Make the founder more effective by owning the highest-leverage work across the business. Be a thought partner, help with strategy, and make sure the important things actually happen
- Strategy, research, and planning: market analysis, opportunity assessment, sounding board, GTM projects, etc
- Project management: goal setting, metrics, reporting, accountability, and following through on founder priorities
- Team: hiring, development, compensation, and feedback cycles
- Internal ops & systems: compliance & controls, processes, automation, and tooling
- Gap filling: owning undefined problems end-to-end, then automating them or handing them off
- Outcomes:
- Strategy & planning become a trusted thought partner, where the founder can hand off ambiguous strategic questions and get back decision-ready analysis
- Hiring lead hiring two additional engineers in SF in the first few months
- Project management set up processes so that every team has robust goal setting, metrics, reporting and accountability team wide
- Systems & gap filling take over responsibilities such as company controls, processes, and automation. For example, own compliance calendar, CRM management, and BI systems so that founder time is ~0
- AI & Automation connect systems, data, and AI for more connected and better decision making. The goal is to have all relevant company data accessible from a single place and queryable to systems. With the knowledge base systems being first, with the goal of having a live and reliable company knowledge base. The first step should be done in the first few months
Application process
- Please include a few words on why you'd like to work at Svix
Our take
Webhooks - the inverse of standard APIs - enable servers to send data to clients based on specified triggers, and are vital for the functionality of modern apps. Svix provides Webhooks-as-a-Service at all scales of business, enabling businesses to transform their software products into critical, real-time data infrastructure.
As webhooks become increasingly popular and are regarded as more and more important, Svix is positioned well to serve what will undoubtedly be an increase in demand in the future. The company has good funding at its back as it continues to expand its teams across the business, as well as its market availability.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2023
$7.8m
EARLY VC
Nov 2021
$2.6m
SEED
Total funding: $10.6m
Company benefits
- Health insurance (including vision and dental)
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement account
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tom Hacohen
(Founder & CEO)Maintainer at EteSync and API Advisory Board Member at DevNetworks. Previously a Mentor at the Google Summer of Code as well as the co-founder of Rock and re:Player.
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