About OneText

We're two former leads from the PayPal Checkout team (engineering & product), we just got pre-seed funding for our new startup which we launched earlier this year, and we're looking for an engineer to join us!

Our goal is simple: to make it possible to use your phone number to pay, anywhere and everywhere, with zero friction. We have a ton of cool ways to make that work, and a bunch of brands already using our platform.

Email: hello@onetext.com

Our stack:

Front-end: JS/TS/React

API: Node/TS/Postgres/Redis

Services: Shopify/Twilio/PayPal/Stripe/Authorize.net

What we do: payments, vaulting, automated conversations, and merchant-facing dashboards. Plus a whole load of interesting things in-between.

Most important skill: be able to communicate well, and learn quickly. Doesn't matter if you haven't used every technology listed above, so long as you're a fast learner and happy to jump quickly into new things.

Experience level: any. So long as you can code, if we like you and you're a good fit, we'll find a role for you.

Expectations: it's a startup, and we just got accepted into YCombinator 2023. So it will be busy, there's no avoiding that. But we want to create a great engineering culture that fosters innovation, learning, and mentorship. We want to teach, and we want to learn from you too.

Location: we're both CA (bay area), open to remote anywhere in US, may be able to make non-US work with some kind of contracting role but priority given to US-based folk.

Salary: completely dependent on experience and skill. Equity on the table. (Apologies for being vague here. Our plan is to create the role and compensation around the candidate we think is the best fit)

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https://bluepnume.medium.com/subscriptions-are-out-refills-are-in-311fd6e41e5e

https://bluepnume.medium.com/dtc-brands-have-a-huge-blind-spot-vaulting-13ea7ef5b2f

Send us an email about yourself!

About the role

Job Description: Chief of Staff at OneText

Location: San Francisco Headquarters (Remote Optionality Available)
Salary: $80,000 - $120,000 + Equity
Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental Insurance, Untracked PTO

About OneText: Shop by Text

Sitting at the intersection of payments, AI, and marketing, OneText makes shopping as effortless as paying with your hotel room number. Shoppers literally reply and buy with one text. Fast-growing ecommerce brands use our text to buy payments and sales concierge to drive up to 30% more revenue. We replace conventional SMS marketing with two-way conversations that delight shoppers and inspire them to buy more.

We’re backed by rockstars including Y Combinator, Coatue, Citi Ventures, Khosla Ventures, the founders of Warby Parker, Allbirds and Harry’s and Matt Bellamy, the lead singer of Muse.

We're building a world-class team and we’re looking for part 🪄magician, part 🏴‍☠️ pirate, part 🚀 astronaut to join as our founding Chief of Staff. If that’s you, reach out!

The Role

As Chief of Staff at OneText, you'll work directly with our founders—Jonathan Fudem, CEO and Daniel Brain, CTO.

How to Apply

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But to jump to the top of the pile, please submit our application

Key Responsibilities

Anything & Everything
Strategy & operations
Collaborating with CEO, CTO and entire team
Financial modeling and planning
Investor Updates, Team memos and communication with customers, vendors and lawyers
Overseeing incentive-based compensation for Sales and Success team
Running HR software (Gusto, Rippling, Sling, etc)
Making long documents shorter
Being the extended brain and hands of the CEO

Required Skills

Experience in a high-growth startup or tech company
Exposure to multiple functions such as strategy, operations, finance and HR.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making.
Being able to make it up as you go. You need to be comfortable with ambiguity!
Fast learning and excellent at making complicated tasks smaller and faster
Extreme honesty
Willingness to work the week of US Black Friday / Cyber Monday (the Super Bowl for our industry)
Readiness to do do whatever it takes to ensure OneText wins
Desire to fight for truth justice and the defeat of your enemies/our lazy, tired competitors

Why Join Us?

Key player at a fast-growing startup: Revenue is up 3X year/year and accelerating
Huge Opportunity: We have the chance to build the payment company of the future, providing a chargeable card on file for every phone number
Competitors You’ll Love to Fight: We compete and win against spammy, conventional “Big SMS” companies who prefer to lock people into contracts rather than innovate.
Personal Growth: We take on big battles every day and work with the best in the industry.

How to Stand Out

Read this far
Familiarize yourself with our core values and norms
Visit OneText.com, enter your favorite ecommerce site and play our demo
Submit our Application
Love our mission

Join us in building the future of payments and marketing, one text at a time.

Technology

Front-end: JS/TS/React

API: Node/TS/Postgres/Redis

Services: Shopify/Twilio/PayPal/Stripe/Authorize.net

Interview Process

Submit our application: https://onetext-chief-of-staff.paperform.co/
Interview screening with Jonathan, Daniel, and other members of the team
Follow up conversation with Jonathan
Reference check

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