YC Founder Whisperer

This role involves working with fast-growing YC startups, shaping their adoption of analytics, feature flags, experimentation, and LLM analytics. You will influence product direction by providing high-signal feedback from founders and own a high-impact segment of companies that often become major PostHog customers. The position focuses on helping early-stage teams implement PostHog correctly and ensuring their long-term success.

Must Have

• Own relationships with YC companies spending $20k–$50k/year under the PostHog credits program.
• Help YC founders and early engineers implement PostHog correctly: instrumentation, schemas, metrics, and multi-product usage.
• Provide technical guidance on analytics, feature flags, experimentation, and replay.
• Monitor growth signals to determine when YC companies will exceed the $50k threshold and transition to TAM ownership.
• Represent YC user needs in all things.
• Offer lightweight, high-leverage guidance appropriate for early-stage teams.
• Ensure YC companies are set up for long-term success before they become revenue-generating.
• Strong technical aptitude; able to work directly with engineering teams.
• Experience at an early-stage startup (preferably YC) — ideally a former YC founder or early employee.
• Ability to guide teams on event modeling, instrumentation, and analytics best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of 30+ accounts and prioritize effectively.
• Based in the Bay Area to meet customers as needed.

Good to Have

• Experience working with similar technologies, i.e., developer tools more broadly, or specifically product analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, data warehouses, or data pipelines.

Perks & Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation & equity
• Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
• Two meeting-free days per week
• Home office
• Coworking credit
• Private health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Training budget
• Access to our Hedge House
• Carbon offsetting
• Pension & 401k contributions
• We hire and pay locally
• Company offsites

About PostHog

We're shipping every product that companies need from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build products.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

• A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
• A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.
• Max AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are CRM, messaging, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product, we really mean it!

We are:

1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

2. Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

3. Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.

Things we care about

• Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.
• Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
• Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
• Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
• Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.
• Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

Job Summary

You'll be working with some of the fastest-growing startups in the world while being able to shape how early-stage teams adopt analytics, feature flags, experimentations, LLM analytics, and more. This is an exciting role to influence product direction by bringing consistent, high-signal feedback from high-growth founders. You get to own a unique high-impact segment: companies that grow quickly and often become major PostHog customers.

What you'll be doing

• Own relationships with YC companies spending $20k–$50k/year under the PostHog credits program.
• Help YC founders and early engineers implement PostHog correctly: instrumentation, schemas, metrics, and multi-product usage.
• Provide technical guidance on analytics, feature flags, experimentation, and replay.
• Monitor growth signals to determine when YC companies will exceed the $50k threshold and transition to TAM ownership.
• Represent YC user needs in all the things.
• Offer lightweight, high-leverage guidance appropriate for early-stage teams.
• Ensure YC companies are set up for long-term success before they become revenue-generating.

What you won't be working on

❌ Enterprise-style renewals

❌ contract negotiation

❌ heavy account management, or deep expansion work

Requirements

• Strong technical aptitude; able to work directly with engineering teams.
• Experience at an early-stage startup (preferably YC) — ideally a former YC founder or early employee.
• Ability to guide teams on event modeling, instrumentation, and analytics best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of 30+ accounts and prioritize effectively.
• Based in the Bay Area to meet customers as needed

Nice to have

• Experience working with similar technologies, ie. developer tools more broadly, or specifically product analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, data warehouses, or data pipelines.

If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!

Salary

We have a set system for compensation as part of being transparent. Salary varies based on location and level of experience.

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Location

(based on market rates)

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Region

Level

Step

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1. Benchmark (United States - Alaska) $168,800

2. Level modifier 1

3. Step modifier 0.95 - 1.04

Salary $160,360 - $175,552+ significant equity

We are open to paying well beyond these ranges for exceptional talent. If this is you, please apply.

Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation & equity
• Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
• Two meeting-free days per week
• Home office
• Coworking credit
• Private health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Training budget
• Access to our Hedge House
• Carbon offsetting
• Pension & 401k contributions
• We hire and pay locally
• Company offsites

Get more details about all our benefits on the Careers page.