We are on a mission to reinvent how companies recruit & train talent for high-volume sales roles. We are forming a superstar founding team, join us!
New York City | Hybrid | $150k-$200k + Meaningful Equity
About The Role
Take2 AI is looking for a Head of Engineering / Founding Engineering Lead to become part of our founding team. We are on a mission to reinvent how companies recruit & train talent for high-volume sales roles. We’ve recently closed our $3M seed round from world-class Future of Work investors, and are now gearing up to take our product to the next phase!
The person who fills this role will take a position of leadership in our engineering team, ensuring we build our product in an exceptional & scalable way. Our leadership team is comprised of Stanford GSB alums, our advisory board is comprised of HR leaders from VISA, Disney & Google, and we have an exit under our belt.
In Terms of Experience
Required:
- 5-15 years of Fulltime experience in software engineering with prior experience with MEAN/MERN stack.
- 2+ years of experience at a big-tech company.
- 2+ years of experience at a Seed/Series A startup OR Co-Founded a company and raised institutional funding.
- Managed engineering teams in the past.
- Excited to get their hands dirty coding themselves 30-50% of the time.
- Some experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) or Large Multimodal Models (LMMs).
- Bachelors in Computer Science from TOP10 school in the USA.
Preferred:
- MS/PHD in Computer Science from TOP10 school in the USA.
- Exhaustive experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) or Large Multimodal Models (LMMs).
- Architected and built a SaaS product from the ground up - either as a founding engineer or as an engineering leader at Seed/Series A startup.
- Experience building and deploying Mobile Apps.
What You Will Do
- Set up a scalable architecture for our product offering and migrate the existing solution to the cloud.
- Collaborate with engineers to implement front-end & back-end components as required.
- Put systems in place to efficiently manage engineering processes and resources.
- Stay closely in the loop with the founders and determine the engineering roadmap.
- Support with the expansion of our engineering team and hire outstanding engineers.
- Manage the engineering org, maintaining strict quality standards.
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Interested?
Fill this form below and we will be in touch in 1 business days. Got questions? Please write to us at founders@take2.ai.
🎯 About Take2 AI
Take2 AI is an AI-powered job simulation platform for sales recruiting & training.
We help companies generate tailor-made simulations of real-world sales scenarios that vet job applicants for skills, behavioral attributes and culture fit. By leveraging generative AI, Take2 AI recreates company and role specific sales scenarios that not only provide high-signal performance data to employers, but also immerse job applicants in the role, leading to fewer mis-hires and reduced short-term attrition.
We are a team of Stanford GSB & Engineering alums with deep expertise in AI, a prior exit under our belt and experience building & scaling products at Microsoft.
We are backed by Reach Capital & SemperVirens VC, as well as additional Silicon-Valley based Venture funds. You can read about our fundraise announcement here.
Our advisory board is comprised of HR leaders from Fortune 500 companies such as Visa, Disney, HP & Google.
⚠️ The Problem
There are over 1.4M open sales roles in the U.S. each month, most of them are high-volume sales roles such as call center sales, field sales, inside sales and in-store sales.
These roles are extremely difficult to hire for:
- Hard to infer skills & fit from resumes → Heavy reliance on interviews & gut feeling.
- 100s of job applicants per role → Countless hours reviewing & interviewing job applicants.
- Misalignment of job expectation → Mis-hires that churn shortly after being hired.
The result is very negative and costs companies billions of dollars each year - 1 in 3 salespeople churn each year, 3x more than any other occupation.
🔧 Our Solution
We solve this problem by generating tailor-made simulations of real-world sales scenarios that help vet job applicants for skills, behavioral attributes and culture fit. By leveraging generative AI, Take2 AI recreates company and role specific sales scenarios that not only immerse job applicants in the role, but also provide high-signal performance data to employers — a game changer for high-volume sales roles.
💻 Product Demo
Below is a product demonstration of our platform at the 2024 i4cp conference, presented by Prasad Setty, ex VP of People Ops at Google, who sits on our advisory board.
In this video, Prasad walks through how Take2 AI works and shares a few examples.
👁️ Long-term Vision
Sales recruiting is just our starting point. The infrastructure we are building – leveraging AI to develop real-world sales scenarios to assess skills & fit in the context of a specific role & company - allows us to expand to additional applications such as training, coaching and onboarding.
Our long-term vision is to become an end-to-end sales talent management platform that every sales leader will use to make the most of their sales teams.
💪🏽 Our Values
- Radical transparency delivered respectfully.
- Assume best intentions.
- Hard work beats genius.
- Be curious - learn & iterate.
- Question without authority.
🤝🏽 Why Join Us?
- You get to define our culture and help us hire our team as we scale.
- You will largely shape the tech stack as we build things out. You will join customer calls and work closely with the founders to learn and then build.
- You get to work 1 on 1 and to learn from amazing people that are working on Take2 AI. This includes CTOs of unicorns, Fortune 100 CXOs, AI Researchers, BigTech People Ops leaders, world-class investors and others.
- We at Take2 AI believe that talent is everywhere. You will love working with us if our mission of going beyond the resume by using technology to allow people to showcase their real-world skills resonates with you.
- Competitive compensation with equity. We will work with you to strike the right balance between equity and salary that matches your risk/reward appetite.
- Nothing beats the energy of an early stage, mission-driven team working together a few days a week in the office. This is a hybrid role based in NYC and will be a truly fun ride!