Hire a Founding Salesperson
The first GTM hire who sells the vision and closes the deal.
Your first sales hire cannot be a career enterprise AE
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Enterprise AEs are optimized for running a playbook inside a funded pipeline. At a pre-Series-A startup, there is no playbook and no pipeline. Your first salesperson has to build both.
The wrong hire here is devastating. They'll spend their first 90 days asking for sales ops, demo environments, and battle cards you don't have. They won't pick up the phone until the CRM is 'set up.'
The right hire is a builder-seller — someone who will cold-call founders, ship case studies, iterate on the pitch deck, and close deals that include the CEO in the room. The pool of people who can do this is small and they're rarely on job boards.
How Superposition finds your first seller
Builder-seller signal
We find candidates with 0-to-1 GTM history — early-stage AE roles, founder-led sales experience, or entrepreneurial GTM work.
Pattern-match on ambiguity
Our intake captures what 'sales' actually means at your stage — quota-carrying AE, design partner closer, or full-funnel GTM owner.
Outreach that sellers respect
Candidates who've been pitched know a bad pitch. Our outreach is the kind of message a good seller would send.
Flat-rate, not % of OTE
$500/agent/month. No 20%-of-first-year-OTE fees for a hire that's already high-risk.
Questions.
Answered.
Traditional recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary and run a generic search across multiple clients at once. Our agent goes deep on just your company — researching thousands of candidates and bringing back people who are specifically a fit, not just generically good.
$500 per agent per month operational, plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only — not equity, not bonus. No retainer, no upfront commitment, no percentage-of-OTE gotchas.
Most searches produce a curated shortlist within 2–3 weeks. Signed offers range from 5 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on role seniority and your interview cadence.
We offer a 90-day replacement guarantee. If they leave for any reason within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost.
There's an initial voice intake — usually 30–45 minutes — where the agent learns your company, values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring. After that, you review curated candidates as they come in. No daily standups.
Find your first seller.
Get a founding salesperson who can build the pipeline, not just work it.