Upside is a referral partnership platform for professional services. We’re enabling the future of work where most knowledge workers do some form of consulting or advising – either full-time or on the side. 82% of knowledge workers want to diversify their work outside of a single employer, but only 1 in 3 who want in are doing it. Most people do not want to market their own services publicly or become Linkedin thought leaders. Upside solves this by enabling people to privately get clients from their network and earn money by making referrals to others.
Our founding team are repeat founders and alums of Y Combinator, Amazon, and Venture for America. We’ve built freelance marketplaces, tools, and professional networks before, and our past companies have been backed by investors like Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, and Bloomberg Beta. Upside builds on everything we’ve learned over the course of our careers so far.
With Upside we’re taking a different approach from traditional freelance and professional networks. We’re building the bottoms-up SaaS that helps people power their own referral networks. We’re in paid private beta with a user base that’s growing significantly month over month, with multiple case studies of users making 6-figures in net new income via Upside.
We’re now looking for our founding engineer to help us build the product that can support and continue to drive our early growth. Ideal candidates have a founder mentality and strong ownership. You’re often the first to roll up your sleeves and get into the trenches to solve a problem, and have a strong bias for throughput. While you love engineering, you’re driven first and foremost by serving and shipping valuable stuff for customers. Maybe you’ve built and scaled products from scratch before, or maybe you’re itching to take on that challenge for the first time.
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Compensation
$150,000 - $200,000 + equity