Typically they're hiring because they have some specific pain that the founder/CTO/person who wrote all the code lacks expertise in.
I have over a decade of experience of fielding phone calls from the CEO requesting a new feature by Monday, then delivering it to win a deal. I'm also good at getting on the phone with customers to find out what they need, then delivering that.
Finding a startup at the right stage seems to be pretty tough these days. There don't seem to be a lot of companies that are early enough to use my skills but are able to pay me actual money instead of equity.
Throwaway account since I'd rather not have this tied to my job hunt.I spent the last 2 years building a SaaS startup that the pandemic killed. I've been founder or the first non-founder engineer for most of my 13 year career.I am now in the uncomfortable position of looking for a job and it's not going the way it has in the past. I'm very good at talking to nontechnical stakeholders,...