Startups Hiring for GTM Roles

5 Startups Hiring for GTM Roles (23rd July-25th July 2026)

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GTM hiring in AI-native B2B is moving fast, and this week's roundup spans five very different categories: cloud security (Upwind), generative world models (Runway), autonomous software development (Blitzy), industrial safety intelligence (Haven), and industrial pricing SaaS (MARKT-PILOT). Every role below was posted within the last 48 hours, and every company is hiring in the US. Below is a breakdown of the specific roles they're hiring for, what they pay, and what it's actually like to work there.

At A Glance
Company Roles Hiring Seniority Salary Range Location Industry Funding Team Size Founder Date Posted Application
Upwind Security Regional Sales Director, Commercial - West Director+ Not Disclosed San Francisco, CA Cloud & AI Security (CNAPP) Series B ($430M Total) 201-500 Amiram Shachar Jul 13, 2026
Runway VP/Director, Enterprise Revenue Director+ $400-475K OTE United States Generative AI / World Models Series E ($855M+ Total) 501-1000 Cristóbal Valenzuela Jul 24, 2026
Blitzy Regional Vice President, Public Sector Director+ $150-250K + Commission United States Autonomous AI Software Development Series B ($204M Total) 51-200 Brian Elliott Jul 24, 2026
Haven Safety AI Enterprise Account Executive (AI for Industrial Safety) Mid-Senior Not Disclosed United States AI Safety Intelligence (EHS) Backed by AI Fund + AES Corp 11-50 Joseph Hanna Jul 24, 2026
MARKT-PILOT Customer Success Manager Mid-Senior $120-130K Chicago, IL Industrial Pricing SaaS Series A ($49.8M Total) 51-200 Tobias Rieker Jul 24, 2026

Upwind Security

Founded: 2022

Upwind Security
Series B ($430M Total) Stage
Cloud & AI Security (CNAPP) Industry
San Francisco, CA Location
201-500 Team Size
Company Overview

Upwind is a cloud security platform (CNAPP + CDR) that uses runtime context to identify and prioritize the risks that actually matter, bridging intelligence from runtime back to build-time. Powered by eBPF sensors, it delivers agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat detection, and integrated API security, so security and DevOps teams spend their time on exploitable risk instead of alert noise.

Best For: GTM operators who like technical, POV-driven security sales and want to build enablement and sales infrastructure from scratch at a fast-scaling, technical-buyer company.

Growth Chart
496 Total employees
37% 6m growth
87% 1y growth
233% 2y growth
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375
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125
0
Jul 2024Jan 2025Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026
0.9 years Median employee tenure
29% Engineering roles
102% Sales roles
GTM Roles Being Hired
Head of GTM Enablement role
Today Head of GTM Enablement
Mid-SeniorRemote5+ YOE
Not Disclosed
San Francisco, CA
Regional Sales Director, Commercial - West role
12 days ago Regional Sales Director, Commercial - West
Director+Remote8+ YOE
Not Disclosed
San Francisco, CA

Runway

Founded: 2018

Runway
Series E ($855M+ Total) Stage
Generative AI / World Models Industry
New York, NY Location
501-1000 Team Size
Company Overview

Runway builds AI world models — models that simulate the physical world through video — merging generative AI research with tools used across film, advertising, and creative production. Its Gen-4.5 and General World Model research now extend beyond media into robotics and scientific simulation, positioning Runway at the frontier of general-purpose world simulation.

Best For: Revenue leaders who want to build and scale a velocity-based GTM motion (pods, PLG signal-based selling) inside a category-defining AI research company, rather than run a traditional enterprise playbook.

Growth Chart
527 Total employees
21% 6m growth
46% 1y growth
132% 2y growth
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450
300
150
0
Jul 2024Jan 2025Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026
1.6 years Median employee tenure
16% Engineering roles
21% Sales roles
GTM Roles Being Hired
VP/Director, Growth & Emerging Revenue role
1 day ago VP/Director, Growth & Emerging Revenue
Director+Remote10+ YOE
$375-450K OTE
United States
VP/Director, Enterprise Revenue role
1 day ago VP/Director, Enterprise Revenue
Director+Remote10+ YOE
$400-475K OTE
United States
Growth Account Executive role
1 day ago Growth Account Executive
MidRemote3+ YOE
$270-300K OTE
United States

Blitzy

Founded: 2023

Blitzy
Series B ($204M Total) Stage
Autonomous AI Software Development Industry
Boston, MA Location
51-200 Team Size
Company Overview

Blitzy is an autonomous code generation platform purpose-built for large, complex enterprise codebases. Its orchestration layer runs thousands of cooperative agents that map every line-level dependency across a codebase, then autonomously plan, build, and validate enterprise-grade code — completing more than 80% of a given engineering task while leaving a clear action plan for the remaining human development.

Best For: Enterprise sellers who enjoy long, technical, multi-stakeholder sales cycles into CIOs and CTOs, and want to sell a genuinely new category (autonomous software delivery) rather than another point solution.

Growth Chart
157 Total employees
149% 6m growth
283% 1y growth
1208% 2y growth
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150
100
50
0
Jul 2024Jan 2025Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026
0.3 years Median employee tenure
105% Engineering roles
300% Sales roles
GTM Roles Being Hired
Enterprise Account Executive, Healthcare role
1 day ago Enterprise Account Executive, Healthcare
Mid-SeniorRemote5+ YOE
$125.5-200K + Commission
United States
Regional Vice President, Public Sector role
1 day ago Regional Vice President, Public Sector
Director+Remote7+ YOE
$150-250K + Commission
United States

Haven Safety AI

Founded: 2024

Haven Safety AI
Backed by AI Fund + AES Corp Stage
AI Safety Intelligence (EHS) Industry
Palo Alto, CA Location
11-50 Team Size
Company Overview

Haven is building an AI Copilot for occupational safety, combining an industry knowledge graph, AI reasoning, and a human-in-the-loop workflow to help utilities, energy companies, and other high-risk industries investigate incidents faster and surface hidden root causes. Built in partnership with The AES Corporation and backed by Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, Haven turns the messy aftermath of workplace incidents into structured, preventive insight.

Best For: Early enterprise sellers who want outsized ownership of a brand-new AI category, working directly with founders and Fortune 1000 EHS/Operations buyers from day one.

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15 Total employees
0% 6m growth
88% 1y growth
1400% 2y growth
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15
10
5
0
Jul 2024Jan 2025Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026
1 year Median employee tenure
0% Engineering roles
20% Business Development roles
GTM Roles Being Hired
Enterprise Account Executive (AI for Industrial Safety) role
1 day ago Enterprise Account Executive (AI for Industrial Safety)
Mid-SeniorRemote7+ YOE
Not Disclosed
United States

MARKT-PILOT

Founded: 2020

MARKT-PILOT
Series A ($49.8M Total) Stage
Industrial Pricing SaaS Industry
Chicago, IL Location
51-200 Team Size
Company Overview

MARKT-PILOT built MP ONE, a Pricing Performance platform for industrial machinery manufacturers (OEMs), unifying market intelligence, pricing decisions, and performance measurement for aftermarket parts. More than 200 machine manufacturers worldwide use the platform to move off spreadsheets and gut-instinct pricing toward transparent, data-driven pricing across their SKU portfolios.

Best For: RevOps and Customer Success operators who want ownership of a defined, quantifiable process (pricing performance) inside a profitable, moderate-growth industrial SaaS company rather than chasing hypergrowth.

Growth Chart
147 Total employees
9% 6m growth
13% 1y growth
1% 2y growth
200
150
100
50
0
Jul 2024Jan 2025Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026
2.1 years Median employee tenure
4% Engineering roles
4% Sales roles
GTM Roles Being Hired
Director of Revenue Operations role
1 day ago Director of Revenue Operations
Director+Hybrid5+ YOE
Not Disclosed
Chicago, IL
Customer Success Manager role
1 day ago Customer Success Manager
Mid-SeniorHybrid3+ YOE
$120-130K
Chicago, IL

Choosing The Right Role

These five companies sit at very different points on the risk/reward curve — from Runway's 500+ person, well-funded revenue org to Haven's 15-person team still defining its category. Compensation ranges swing widely by stage and equity mix, "remote" can mean anything from fully distributed to a specific set of eligible states, and the day-to-day responsibilities of a GTM role often get redefined within the first quarter as the team learns what actually moves revenue. Before applying, it's worth reading the stat strip and growth chart for each company above as closely as the role card itself — those numbers say more about what the day-to-day will actually look like than the title does.

Key skills startups look for:

Pipeline ownership: the ability to build and manage a pipeline end-to-end, without a fully staffed RevOps team to lean on.
Technical fluency: comfort running a POV/technical-win motion or selling to engineering buyers, which shows up across security, dev tools, and safety-AI sales cycles alike.
Category creation: the ability to sell a genuinely new category — autonomous software delivery, AI safety copilots, world models — where there is no existing budget line to displace.