We work with unusual intensity. In-person in San Francisco, six days a week, long days, most weekends. This is not a phase we'll grow out of. It's how we've chosen to build, because we're in a market where speed decides who wins.
We're telling you this in the first paragraph, not the last, because we only want people who read that and feel pulled in, not talked into it.
Here's what you get in exchange:
Cekura (YC F24) is building the voice AI engineer. Teams use Cekura to test agents before going live, monitor real production calls, and self-improve continuously. Cekura doesn't just flag issues and suggest fixes: it reproduces failures in simulation, fixes them, tests the fix thoroughly, and raises PRs.
We're trusted where reliability is non-negotiable: customers include Five9, HighLevel, Twin Health, PwC, Deloitte, Jobber, and Jotform, with HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR as defaults, not checkboxes. We're growing fast and backed by top investors.
You'll own revenue end to end: source it, work it, close it. Voice AI is exploding, and every team deploying an agent has a reliability problem, most just don't know how to name it yet. Your job is to find them, teach them, and carry the deal from first touch to signed contract.
This is a full-cycle, builder role. There is no SDR team feeding you meetings and no established playbook to run. You'll write the first version of both. And close the deals it produces.
Build the outbound machine. Design and run the full prospecting motion: ICP definition, account research, multi-channel sequences (email, LinkedIn, phone, events), and the tooling stack behind it.
Close full-cycle. Run discovery, demos, technical evaluation, procurement, and negotiation through to signature. Founders join your key deals, but the deals are yours to drive.
Sell a technical product to technical buyers. Our buyers are heads of engineering, VPs of CX, and AI leads deploying voice agents. You'll run discovery that goes deep on latency, barge-in, evals, and CI/CD for agents, and demo credibly alongside founders.
Turn conferences and communities into pipeline. Voice AI has a dense ecosystem (hackathons, meetups, provider communities around Vapi, Retell, LiveKit, Pipecat). You'll work it in person.
Write the playbook. Document what works: messaging, objection handling, qualification criteria, sequences. What you build is what the next five GTM hires will run.
Feed the product loop. You're the voice of the market inside a 12-person engineering-heavy team. What you hear in discovery calls shapes the roadmap.
Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability
Salary
$120,000 - $160,000
Equity
0.15% - 0.5%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
1+ years
Total raised
$2.9M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.