Contrario is the AI Recruiting Platform powered by expert recruiters. Trusted by teams at every stage for their critical hires. The platform helps companies at every stage hire faster by combining expert recruiters with AI agents that take on the operational work.
We work with 250+ venture-backed companies including Wispr Flow, Listen Labs, and Slash, and a network of 500+ boutique recruiting agencies and recruiters (many formerly at Stripe, Ramp, and Palantir).
In under 6 months, the company has reached $6M in annualized revenue and paid out over $1M to recruiters. We’ve raised $2.3M from Y Combinator, Nexus VP, and angels from Hudson River Trading, Stanford, DoorDash, and OpenAI.
We are scaling aggressively and aiming for:
Our team comes from Stanford, Wispr Flow, Giga, BCG, NASA, SAIL, Berkeley, and Northwestern.
We are hiring a Founding GTM to build Contrario's growth function from scratch with 0-3 years of experience.
You will work directly with Arya, our CEO to shape how the world discovers, understands, and engages with Contrario on both sides of the marketplace. That means recruiters who want to join, and companies that need to hire.
This is a 0-to-1 role with extremely high ownership.
You will:
We've laid some groundwork: case studies, early distribution, and a public company launch, but the function isn't built. You're the person who builds it.
Narrative, positioning, and brand
Own how Contrario is understood by recruiters, customers, and the market. Arya's LinkedIn and X presence is one of our highest-leverage distribution channels and you'll own the strategy behind it: cadence, narrative arcs, how launches and milestones land publicly. You'll write the copy that lives on our website, define our messaging hierarchy, and do the positioning work every time we ship something new.
Growth programs and lifecycle
Build the referral programs on both sides of the marketplace — recruiter and customer — and own reactivation and win-back campaigns that keep the network alive. Run lifecycle marketing end-to-end: recruiter nurture, customer nurture, activation, re-engagement. These are the compounding loops that turn a placement-driven business into something that grows itself.
Outbound and demand generation
Own the messaging strategy behind our outbound — angles and sequence copy for recruiter and customer acquisition, targeting logic, campaign iteration. Run paid acquisition across LinkedIn, Meta, and Google and own the performance metrics. Move between writing a cold sequence and analyzing CAC in the same week.
Launches and events
When something big happens — a product ships, a fundraise closes, a PR moment surfaces — you own how it lands. Cross-channel coordination, copy, creative direction, timing. You'll also own our events strategy: SaaStr, TechWeek, recruiter dinners, conference follow-up. Events are high-leverage for us and we want to show up deliberately.
We are open to a wide range of backgrounds and experience levels, including new grads. What matters: instincts, ownership, and the ability to figure things out fast.
AI hiring platform powered by expert recruiters
Salary
$100,000 - $140,000
Equity
0.1% - 0.25%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
0+ years
Total raised
$2.3M
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.