About 1stCollab

1stCollab (YC W23) is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform founded by a team with extensive experience scaling companies like Pinterest. We’re revolutionizing influencer marketing, enabling marketers to accomplish in hours what previously took teams months. Each week, we connect thousands of creators with top brands like Notion, Character AI, and Quora. Backed by Y Combinator and other world-class investors, we’re developing cutting-edge technology to transform how brands advertise and acquire users.

About the role

We’re hiring a Lead (Senior / Staff / Sr. Staff) Product Engineer to help build the leading advertising and marketing platform for brands and creators. As the Lead Product Engineer, you will have the opportunity to architect our entire product stack. For creators, we aim to be the ultimate platform for growing creative careers—managing the business side so creators can focus on what they do best. For brands, our vision goes beyond traditional ad platforms: we believe that by making advertising as intuitive as a consumer product, we can redefine the ad experience.

Your responsibilities

You will lead the frontend architecture decisions with a focus on performance, scale, and impact.
Work with Engineering, Product, and Design to ship exceptional product experiences for Brands and Creators.
Be a founding member of our growing team. Help to shape the product, direction, and culture of the company!

What we’re looking for

Experience: 5+ years in Frontend Development experience.
Background: Deep expertise in React, Node.js, mobile web, and REST API ecosystem. Strong product and design sensibilities with track record of shipping.
User-Centric: You are obsessed with our customers (Brands and Creators!) and want to build great product experiences.
Action-Oriented: As a startup, we prioritize getting things done. We don’t spend our days in meetings and talking about work. We prioritize roll up our sleeves and getting stuff done.
Strong Communication: Ability to navigate ambiguity, articulate decisions, and communicate effectively with teammates and external brand partners.
Growth Mindset: You welcome feedback and are eager to learn, iterate, and improve.
Fast Learner: You’ll be working with unique tools and processes that don’t exist elsewhere. We need someone who can quickly understand 1stCollab’s operations and develop ways to educate brands about our platform.

Additional preferred qualifications

Prior experience at an early-stage startup is highly preferred.
Experience with digital ad products or creator economy products is a plus.

Here’s the problem:

Brands want to do influencer marketing—they know it’s effective—but are held back by how manual, laborious, and difficult it is to scale.
Creators want to be sponsored so they can keep creating content for their audiences, but have trouble getting sponsored by the right brand. As a result, brands keep pumping money through less efficient marketing channels, while talented creators have trouble earning an income and eventually give up.

1stCollab (YC W23) is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform, built by the team that helped scale Pinterest. We’ve reinvented the process of influencer marketing, so that any marketer can now do in a few hours what it used to take a team of influencer marketers weeks to do. Every week, we help hundreds of creators find sponsorships with some of the world’s most innovative brands, such as Notion, Character AI, and Framer. We’re a seed stage, venture-backed company with innovative technology looking to transform how brands advertise and grow users.

Our brand retention rate is nearly 100%—we literally have 10x more demand than we’re able to scale and keep up with—and creators we work with are tremendously happy. Check out our website to see some videos made for us by the thousands of creators we've already worked with!