Technical Chief of Staff

We're just going to say it. This is a ... very unique title for a role. Truth is, if you are the right candidate we can decide to call this role whatever you want. We are looking for someone who is technical, entrepreneurial, and wants to play a key cross-functional role at Anon.About AnonThe company

• We have experience founding a $300mm VC-backed security startup and at companies like Google, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and more.

• We have capital and just completed a $6.5mm seed fundraise from Union Square Ventures, Abstract Ventures, and world-class angels to greatly expand the team.

• We are building a product developers love that enables AI agents to securely authenticate and operate across the internet, even when APIs don't exist.

• We are pursuing a massive TAM to be the identity layer for the next internet, where billions of agents are authenticated and managed via Anon.

The culture

• We are technical and product-minded which enables us to build an epic product for developers, by developers. This makes being customer-centric easy.

• We like working with the latest tech and prefer testing out the most innovative projects and being curious early-adopters versus matching the status quo.

• We are hard-working and accountable and want to work with people that have a strong ownership-mentality when it comes to their work.

• We are fun and collaborative and mostly work IRL at our office in San Francisco. We also understand the need for "deep work" and have flexible hours and minimal meetings.

About this role

Role overview

• This is a unique but critically important role at Anon. We have a very good idea of the roles and responsibilities, but the right candidate can choose their own title.

• This person will serve as a bridge between our customers and engineering team.

• Interfacing with customers on sales calls with our CEO, leading product demos, answering questions, guiding customer onboarding, and building our developer community.

• Playing a major role in product as the voice of the customer, owning our external-facing developer docs and guiding the company’s product roadmap.

• This person is technical but thrives in a multifaceted and external-facing role.

• The role is likely 40% external-facing, 30% engineering, and 30% product.

• Ideal candidates are former founders, CTOs, or founding engineers that can write code, but also love talking to developers, owning products, and impacting a business in myriad ways.

Role responsibilities

• Participate in sales calls with the developers who buy our product. You won’t carry a quota or prospect for leads, but you must be excellent at product demos and answering questions.

• Facilitate customer onboarding, including pair programming with customers, troubleshooting issues, and finding ways to optimize this process.

• Own our developer docs, which are critical to our business. You will work closely with our entire engineering team to ensure docs are clear, comprehensive, and generally excellent.

• Ensure quality of our APIs and SDKs by performing and assisting in testing from a developer’s perspective.

• Influence API design and SDK interfaces by working closely with our backend engineers to craft a developer experience that is delightful and intuitive.

• Rapidly prototype example projects across multiple programming languages and frameworks that showcase new features and help teach new developers how to use our SDKs.

• Shape our product roadmap by working closely with the CEO and CTO at Anon and bringing your own insights, as well as highlighting customer needs and wants.

• Contribute to newsletters and blog posts by reviewing release notes to inform our audience about new features, product updates, and other relevant topics.

• Foster a developer community by creating an online engagement strategy and by attending and/or hosting events like hackathons, conferences, dinners, and more.

Experience required

• Background as a founder/CTO, founding engineer, or in a cross-functional technical role such as a technical product manager at an early-stage company.

• Time spent writing code either as an engineer or as a hobby / on side projects.

• Time in a customer-facing or internal stake-holder facing role. Bonus points if you’ve fundraised or sold a product in some capacity in the past.

• Experience with designing REST, gRPC, and/or GraphQL APIs.

• Experience with developing applications in Typescript/Javascript, Python, and/or Go.

• Bonus points for experience on Twitter or other writing online (a blog, newsletter, etc.).

• Bonus points if you have experience with Swift, React Native, Kotlin, or Rust.

• Bonus points if you’ve created and managed external-facing developer docs in the past.

Skills required

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.

• Ability to think critically about product and prioritization.

• Ability to effectively manage and balance multiple tasks and priorities.

• Ability to function in a fast-paced environment where things change and you need to navigate some ambiguity.

• Ability and desire to work autonomously, solve problems, and learn new skills.

About the Benefits

Benefits overview

• We believe that our team needs to be aligned with the business. For that reason, we intentionally keep our team small but elite and pay a competitive salary, offer generous equity upside, as well as standard benefits and a few unique ones.

Specific benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Generous equity in the company.

• Standard health, dental, and vision benefits.

• Free gym membership at whatever gym you want to use.

• Company-provided work station setup of your choice.

• Fun and regular company-sponsored events, offsites, dinners, etc.

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