Stainless Software, Inc
About Stainless
Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.
We have raised over $35 million 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. Role
We're 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 & impact as you take ownership of diverse business functions before we've hired specialized roles.
This role is onsite at our headquarters in NYC.
What you'll do
We plan to hire 2 people in the near term, and expect you'll mix & 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. Growth & GTM:
Build a humming GTM engine from scratch: drive GTM strategy & metrics; collaborate on customer segmentation, core positioning, and pricing; generally connect the dots between marketing, sales, and product towards world-class PLG. 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 & process with an employee-centric, systems-design mentality; design & oversee all business hiring plans to identify & attract world-class talent. Strategic leadership:
Partner closely with CEO: act as trusted thought partner; run company staff meeting; define & track core business metrics; prep board materials & attend board meetings; oversee strategic product and financial planning; serve as a trusted proxy in select internal and external contexts; etc. Special projects:
Manage high-level partner negotiations; product-manage new features; keep the wheels on the bus. Who you are Have 3-8 years experience, including at least: 1-3 years in MBB, IB, PE, VC, or equivalent 1-4 years at a high-performing Series A-C startup in Business Operations, Product Management, Chief of Staff, or similar roles Bonus: former founder / founding employee
A desired career trajectory towards Founder, COO, or GM Sharp:
a structured, top-down, analytical thinker and communicator who can go toe-to-toe with the CEO. Curious:
an insatiable and fast learner. Organized:
a skilled project manager; exceptionally organized; enjoy bringing processes from 01 (even when not glamorous). Driven:
have a strong bias to action; willing to get hands extremely dirty; willing to run through walls to get things done. Devoted to excellence:
hold yourself to impeccably high standards & demonstrate obsessive attention to detail. 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). Benefits We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants. Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans). Paid commuter benefits & similar. Paid team lunch/meals during workdays. Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer). Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year ("remote February").
Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.
We have raised over $35 million 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. Role
We're 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 & impact as you take ownership of diverse business functions before we've hired specialized roles.
This role is onsite at our headquarters in NYC.
What you'll do
We plan to hire 2 people in the near term, and expect you'll mix & 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. Growth & GTM:
Build a humming GTM engine from scratch: drive GTM strategy & metrics; collaborate on customer segmentation, core positioning, and pricing; generally connect the dots between marketing, sales, and product towards world-class PLG. 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 & process with an employee-centric, systems-design mentality; design & oversee all business hiring plans to identify & attract world-class talent. Strategic leadership:
Partner closely with CEO: act as trusted thought partner; run company staff meeting; define & track core business metrics; prep board materials & attend board meetings; oversee strategic product and financial planning; serve as a trusted proxy in select internal and external contexts; etc. Special projects:
Manage high-level partner negotiations; product-manage new features; keep the wheels on the bus. Who you are Have 3-8 years experience, including at least: 1-3 years in MBB, IB, PE, VC, or equivalent 1-4 years at a high-performing Series A-C startup in Business Operations, Product Management, Chief of Staff, or similar roles Bonus: former founder / founding employee
A desired career trajectory towards Founder, COO, or GM Sharp:
a structured, top-down, analytical thinker and communicator who can go toe-to-toe with the CEO. Curious:
an insatiable and fast learner. Organized:
a skilled project manager; exceptionally organized; enjoy bringing processes from 01 (even when not glamorous). Driven:
have a strong bias to action; willing to get hands extremely dirty; willing to run through walls to get things done. Devoted to excellence:
hold yourself to impeccably high standards & demonstrate obsessive attention to detail. 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). Benefits We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants. Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans). Paid commuter benefits & similar. Paid team lunch/meals during workdays. Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer). Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year ("remote February").