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Hiring as an Early Stage Startup

I'm failing to find any strategy that discovers what I'm looking for in a 5th engineer hire for my team.

About Us:

- Building AI creative tools on the web

- We have 11 months of runway

- Are offering competitive US Bay Area (non-MAGMA) salaries.

- We are raising our seed round with good prospects

- We are offering 1% equity

- We are growing ~25% monthly in active users with over 1000 already

Point is, we're doing alright, and offering a good job.

What I'm Looking For:

- Full Stack Web Engineer(React, Typescript, Node, Server Mgmt.)

- Someone passionate about the product, Individualistic, who can build things from scratch and work independently, with their own side projects (basically, a great engineer).

Why They Should Chose Us:

- We are a engineering oriented team working on an interesting problem in applying generative AI to 3d asset creation

Things I've Tried:

- Joining engineering discords

- Exploring open source commits

- Tech twitter

- job postings

My Results:

- Weak responses on most cold outreaches

- The responses showed people not looking for work

- When I post on job boards like LinkedIn and AngelList the applicants don't meet the standards.

Thoughts?

8 points kadokaelan 4 years ago 15 comments

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