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Careers at Needle

Help founders find their first customers

Right now someone on Reddit, Hacker News, or GitHub is asking for exactly the tool a founder just built. Needle finds that thread and ranks it. Come build it with us.

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Why work here

Three reasons, all of them about the work.

  1. A hard, useful problem

    Searching a dozen communities, reading each thread, and ranking it by buying intent is real engineering and real judgment - not another alert feed.

  2. Small on purpose

    What you build ships to customers within days. There are no layers between you and the result.

  3. Founder-led and independent

    You work directly with the founder. Decisions are made by the people doing the work and the customers using it.

Is Needle right for you?

Two honest lists. Both are true.

You will like it here if…

  • You want to own an outcome end to end, working directly with the founder.
  • You would rather ship something real this week than polish a plan.
  • You use AI tools to get more done, and you check their work.
  • You care about helping founders find their first paying customers.

You probably won't if…

  • You want a narrow lane, layers of management, and a slow ladder.
  • You think growth means blasting automated comments or scraping DMs.
  • You prefer to wait for detailed instructions before starting.

How we hire

Four steps. We want to see how you think and build.

  1. 1

    Short note and proof of work

    A few lines about you and links to things you have built or shipped. Real work beats a polished resume.

  2. 2

    A small work sample

    A piece of real work matched to the role - like judging three live threads, or a focused code fix. No trick questions.

  3. 3

    30-minute call with Vaibhav

    A candid conversation about the product, the messy parts, and where you want to grow.

  4. 4

    Offer

    Clear terms and no exploding deadlines.

Open roles

Where you could start

We hire deliberately and shape roles around people. If your title isn't here, introduce yourself anyway.

  • Remote
  • Internship or full-time

Signal Scout

Founding growth and discovery

Find the threads where buyers are asking for help. You will use Needle every day across Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, and Stack Overflow, answer people genuinely, and turn what works into repeatable playbooks with the founder.

  • Run buyer-intent searches and decide which threads deserve a reply
  • Write and test helpful replies, landing copy, and customer education
  • Talk to founders, run product walkthroughs, and turn signals into revenue

How to stand out: Include one real community thread where someone is asking for a tool, and the exact reply you would send.

Apply for Signal Scout
  • Any discipline
  • Remote

Create your role

Open application

Builder, technical marketer, designer, or growth operator - if you can see how to make Needle more useful to founders, pitch us the role.

How to stand out: Tell us what you would own, why it matters, and what you have shipped that proves you can do it.

Apply for Create your role

Remote · Flexible hours · Work directly with the founder

Think you are a fit?

Send a short note and links to things you have built. We read every email.

Email careers@useneedle.net