Paloma | CTO | New York City | Onsite / Local | Full-time
We're building marketing software for messaging platforms – kind of like MailChimp but for building &amp; sending conversations through Facebook Messenger.
The backstory: After the election I put together a team to build a Messenger 'bot' to help people call Congress, CallParty.org, which launched in March. To power it we built a dashboard for segmenting and sending content (a bit like a MailChimp for Messenger) which got some businesses and investors interested. So we took 100k in angel funding and formed Paloma as a Public Benefit Corp to further build out an end-to-end marketing software for messaging platforms, and are working on our beta that will be launching in the fall. From there we'll either raise a seed or participate in YC's winter class and then raise a seed.
The team is me and two of the engineers from CallParty who are on contract and insanely talented. I have a background in design and designing marketing software, have hopped around startups the past few years, did YC two summers ago for one of them, and have built a few 'bot' type experiences. Our next key hires are folks to head up tech, sales and marketing.
The platform is API-driven with a focus on integrations to CRMs and various data sources, and includes tools for audience management, conversation building &amp; scheduling, and analytics. It's being built primarily in python with a javascript front-end.
We're looking for someone to lead technical development who is:
* nice
* smart
* down for some really hard stuff
* good at communicating and making decisions rapidly
* excited about building tools for people
* interested in conversation / messaging
* great at vetting, hiring and leading other devs
* excited about contributing to the growth of what is now a very small company
... probably some other stuff because really there's a lot to do.
If you're into it let's chat! email in profile.
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