Standout
Actively Hiring

Founding Sales / Talent Scout

San Francisco, exceptional candidates)
Full-time

About the role

Comp

  • Base: $100,000 - $140,000, depending on experience

  • Intro accepted by a client company: $100 - $200 each

  • Offer extended to your candidate: $500 - $1,000 each

  • Hire made: $4,000 - $6,000 each

  • Over quota: 1.5x accelerator on everything above

  • Equity: early-employee grant, four-year vest

On-target earnings: $170,000 - $220,000 in year one. Uncapped above that. Top performer here should clear $500,000+.

We match great people to great companies, faster than any recruiter alive. The product works. What we don’t have enough of is people out there finding the talent and putting it in front of our clients.

That’s this job. You find outstanding candidates, get them onto Standout, and get them intro’d to companies that will hire them. Every step of that pays you.

What you actually do all day

  • Hunt. LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord servers, university clubs, WhatsApp groups, alumni Slacks, in person at meetups. Wherever the good ones are hiding.

  • Reach out cold and get replies. Dozens a day, not five.

  • Get them signed up and their profile complete.

  • Push intros to our client companies and chase them until someone books an interview.

  • Ring the bell when they get hired.

You will be measured on four numbers, on a leaderboard, updated live: outreach sent, signups activated, intros accepted, hires made. Everyone sees everyone’s.

Where you work

San Francisco, five days a week in the office, is the default. We’re small, we move fast, and that works best in a room. For an exceptional person based in France we can make it work remotely and build the team there — after at least two weeks of onboarding with us in SF.

Who this is for

  • Sales, recruiting, startup, or none of the above. We don’t care how many years you have or where you did them. We care that you are hungry, over-motivated and want to win.

  • You’ve competed at something seriously. Sport, debate, chess, sales floor, poker, anything with a scoreboard and a loser.

  • You get a genuine kick out of watching a number go up and figuring out what moved it.

  • You’d rather send 200 messages and learn what works than write the perfect one.

  • Rejection annoys you for about four seconds.

Don’t apply if you want a playbook, a ramp period, or a manager checking in. We’ll teach you the product in a week and then you’re on the board.

About Standout

Standout is an agentic hiring marketplace that provides AI agents for both tech talent and hiring companies to assess fit and make direct introductions, replacing traditional job applications and recruiter outreach. Representation is free for talent, while companies pay only after a successful hire. The company was founded in 2025, is based in San Francisco, and is a member of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch.

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Job details

Salary

$120,000 - $160,000

Equity

0.1% - 0.5%

Location

San Francisco, exceptional candidates)

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameStandout
IndustryRecruiting and Talent
Team Size7

Funding

Total raised

$5.5M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Inovo.vc
Pioneer Fund
Eight Capital
Palm Drive Capital

Founders

Alexis Aftalion

Alexis Aftalion

Co-Founder & CEO

LinkedIn
Witold de La Chapelle

Witold de La Chapelle

Co-Founder & CTO

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.