Co-Founder / Head of Business Development & Marketing

Company:
⭐ About RealEngineers
The Google Translate between Hardware Engineers and recruiters.

RealEngineers is an early-stage startup on a mission to fix the broken conversation between engineers and recruiters.
Tech recruiters aren’t engineers—this mismatch creates costly misunderstandings when qualifying technical talent.

Instead of forcing engineers to reduce complex projects to résumé buzzwords—and recruiters to guess at true capabilities—we act as the translator in the middle.

✅ For Engineers:

• Get hired for what you’ve actually built

• Earn more interviews with proof of real project work

• Stand out without perfect résumé keywords

• Unlock roles you never knew you were qualified for

✅ For Recruiters & Hiring Managers:

• Place better candidates, faster, with proof-backed insights

• Enhance your team’s technical understanding with AI-explained profiles

• Improve submittal-to-interview ratios

• Build hiring manager trust that drives client retention

RealEngineers surfaces context and depth that traditional résumés and LinkedIn profiles can’t—bridging the gap for better matches, faster.

Location:
Remote / Hybrid (Seattle Preferred)

Role Overview:
We’re looking for a driven, entrepreneurial Co-Founder / BizDev / Marketing Lead who wants to help change the way engineers get hired.

Your mission: grow RealEngineers by bringing in new customers (recruiters, hiring managers, agencies), executing marketing campaigns, and shaping our go-to-market strategy.

This is an early, equity-based role. You’ll work directly with the founder to define and drive growth.

Key Responsibilities:
✅ Build and execute a sales and business development strategy to onboard early customers
✅ Identify, qualify, and close partnerships with recruiting agencies, hiring managers, and engineering teams
✅ Design and launch marketing campaigns (email, social, events, demos)
✅ Refine messaging and value proposition for different audiences
✅ Collaborate with the founder on pitch decks, demo days, and investor conversations

Who We’re Looking For:
✅ Entrepreneurial spirit—you want to build something from the ground up
✅ Proven experience in sales, business development, or marketing (ideally in B2B, recruiting, or HR tech)
✅ Comfortable talking to recruiters, hiring managers, and engineering leaders
✅ Excellent communication and storytelling skills
✅ Scrappy, self-directed, and able to prioritize in a startup environment
✅ Passion for fixing broken hiring systems and making engineers’ lives better

Nice to Have:
⭐ Experience selling SaaS or HRTech
⭐ Technical background or familiarity with engineering hiring
⭐ Early-stage startup experience

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to define sales and marketing strategy from day one

• Direct partnership with the founder

• Ability to truly impact the way engineering talent is hired

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment