<h1>About Stainless</h1>Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.<a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/stainless-helps-build-sdks-for-openai-anthropic-and-meta/">We have raised over $35 million</a> from a16z, Sequoia, and founders/C-levels from Stripe, Datadog, Segment, Linear, and more.We are headquartered in NYC, just west of SoHo, and expect to grow from ~20 to ~40 people in 2025.<h2>Role</h2>Were hiring a high-slope business generalist to drive operational excellence and growth as we scale from a ~20-person Series A company with strong product-market-fit to a 100+ person company with a humming GTM engine and thriving team.This role will evolve rapidly with the business, with broad influence &amp; impact as you take ownership of diverse business functions before weve hired specialized roles.<h2>What youll do</h2>We plan to hire 2 people in the near term, and expect you’ll mix &amp; match responsibilities based on your respective backgrounds and interests; we don’t expect any one person to be doing all of these things at any one time.<ul><li>Growth &amp; GTM: Build a humming GTM engine from scratch: drive GTM strategy &amp; metrics; collaborate on customer segmentation, core positioning, and pricing; generally connect the dots between marketing, sales, and product towards world-class PLG.</li><li>Operations: Cultivate excellence across the company: run company operating cadence (QBRs, annual planning, performance reviews); identify and resolve cross-functional bottlenecks; craft best-in-class company culture &amp; process with an employee-centric, systems-design mentality; design &amp; oversee all business hiring plans to identify &amp; attract world-class talent.</li><li>Strategic leadership: Partner closely with CEO: act as trusted thought partner; run company staff meeting; define &amp; track core business metrics; prep board materials &amp; attend board meetings; oversee strategic product and financial planning; serve as a trusted proxy in select internal and external contexts; etc.</li><li>Special projects: Manage high-level partner negotiations; product-manage new features; keep the wheels on the bus. </li></ul><h2>Who you are</h2><ul><li>You have 1-4 years of experience in PE, VC, and/or early-stage startups</li><li>A desired career trajectory towards Founder, COO, PM, or GM</li><li>Sharp: a structured, top-down, analytical thinker and communicator who can go toe-to-toe with the CEO.</li><li>Curious: an insatiable and fast learner.</li><li>Organized: a skilled project manager; exceptionally organized; enjoy bringing processes from 0→1 (even when not glamorous).</li><li>Driven: have a strong bias to action; willing to get hands extremely dirty; willing to run through walls to get things done.</li><li>Devoted to excellence: hold yourself to impeccably high standards &amp; demonstrate obsessive attention to detail.</li><li>Technical: understand developers and SaaS; you’re an artist with a spreadsheet; you love automating processes with low-code tools (e.g., Zapier, Retool, Clay, maybe even some SQL/Python).</li></ul><h2>Benefits</h2><ul><li>We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants.</li><li>Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans).</li><li>Paid commuter benefits &amp; similar.</li><li>Paid team lunch/meals during workdays.</li><li>Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer).</li><li>Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year (remote February). </li></ul>