Founding GTM Engineer
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Position Overview & Specifications
Your responsibilities
We're looking for Plato's first GTM Engineer: the person who brings RevOps to Plato as a discipline and builds our revenue engine as a product, not a ticket queue. Pipeline, conversion, and revenue per headcount are your metrics.
You're inheriting real infrastructure - HubSpot as our source of truth, a custom-built deal-scoring app, call intelligence via Grain, and company-wide AI access - but the layers underneath are still unbuilt: clean data, automated process, real forecasting rigor, AI-driven workflows. That's the job.
This is a team-of-one role that's essentially a sandbox: a direct line to the founders, a mandate to change how we work, and no playbook telling you what to build first. If you want to build the infrastructure behind a revenue engine from the ground up and see your own builds move real numbers, let's talk.
What you'll actually do:
- Get the data foundation trustworthy: CRM hygiene, field governance, deduping, enrichment on create
- Automate the revenue process: lead routing, SLAs, stage criteria, clean handoffs across teams
- Build the pipeline generation stack: signal-based outbound (ICP scoring, enrichment waterfalls, orchestration) so effort goes into conversations, not list-building
- Bring AI into daily workflows: call-intelligence automation, research agents, health/churn scoring
- Get forecasting and reporting to a place leadership can steer from weekly
- Make sure what you ship gets used: instrument adoption, train the team, iterate
Your qualifications
Must-haves:
- Hands-on experience architecting a CRM like HubSpot from the ground up - how objects, properties, and data structure are set up - not just administering one that's already built
- Practical, production experience with outbound/enrichment tooling (e.g. Clay or similar)
- You've built with AI/LLMs - prompt design, agents, or AI-powered workflows - in real production work
- Strong data rigor: you can read a funnel, spot where the data is dirty, and quantify the impact of a fix before you build it
- You think in systems and sequencing, not tickets - and can defend your reasoning under real pushback
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience as an early GTM-Ops/RevOps hire at another startup
- Familiarity with our stack or similar: Grain, Sales Navigator-style outbound tooling
- Comfort with unit economics (CAC, ACV, payback)
- Experience with mid-market, multi-stakeholder B2B deal cycles
Why us?
You'd be Plato's first-ever GTM Engineer - not inheriting someone else's system, but building the one that doesn't exist yet, and introducing RevOps as a discipline at a company that's never had one. A direct line to the founders, real budget for tooling, and a mandate to change how the revenue team works, from day one.Β
This is an individual contributor role today - you'll be doing the building yourself, not managing a team. If this function grows as Plato scales, you'd be the one shaping what it becomes, not stepping into a structure someone else already defined.
Because the function touches everything - data, process, automation, AI - you won't be boxed into one lane. If you want to see your own build move a real number within your first 90 days, this is that role.
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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United States Work Authorization & Sponsorship Guide
Under United States immigration law (INA Β§ 101(a)(15)(H)), foreign nationals seeking full-time professional positions typically navigate either non-immigrant specialty occupation classifications or immigrant visa sponsorship:
Requires a relevant Bachelor's degree or higher. Employers must file an approved Labor Condition Application (LCA) with the US Department of Labor confirming the prevailing wage rate.
Canadian and Mexican citizens qualify under USMCA (TN status). F-1 STEM graduates benefit from 36-month aggregate work authorization through E-Verify enrolled employers.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Technology
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Founding GTM Engineer roles across Platoapp's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Technology.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked Salary Disclosed on Application bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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