Guardrail.ai

Founding Growth Hire at Guardrail.ai (San Francisco, CA)

Guardrail.ai· San Francisco, CA·

Role details

Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

Mission

To secure the next generation of the web

For web3 to get into the hands of mainstream users, there cannot be exploits that steal millions of dollars in a single atomic transaction. The current exploit detection and response solutions are not sufficient to keep billions of dollars secure. We believe a combination of research-based and data-driven detection solutions and a novel response solution will leapfrog the industry forward in the battle against exploiters.

Role

  • Join the 0 → 1 journey in building foundational infrastructure for blockchain technology to be secure.
  • Thanks to changes in 2022 - 2024, blockchains are getting faster, cheaper, and multi-platform.
  • We’re working to be the leader in blockchain security in this cycle.\

Responsibilities

  • Sales: As a founding team growth hire, you will support top-of-funnel demos and post-conversion success, working directly with the CEO on founder-led sales toward product-market fit.
  • Sales: Bring sales techniques, experience, and network to grow Guardrail’s customer count and value to the next level.
  • Content & Marketing: Create momentum across key narratives for Guardrail by building a content strategy and partnering closely with the CEO and CTO.
  • Wear many hats: bring diverse ideas and perspectives and contribute to building a high-performing team culture at Guardrail.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience managing complex, business function workloads like Product, Sales, Strategy
  • Interest in Blockchain, Security, and experience working with technical stakeholders in previous roles
  • Characteristics we emphasize for this role: detail-oriented, communication (written & oral), and critical thinking (asking questions)
  • Ability to handle the breadth of scope as a founding member of the company
  • Interested in technical concepts: security, blockchain, decentralized finance: all these topics are inherently technical and having an interest in analytical thinking/problem solving.

Why work at Guardrail.ai

  • Small, elite team: 8 employees working on frontier security problems; a mission-driven environment where each engineer meaningfully shapes the product.
  • High impact: Team protected $30B+ in onchain assets and saved customers a combined 9-figures in loss mitigation — an unusually direct line between your work and real money saved.
  • Now backed by Rain's scale: After the 2026 acquisition, the team has the resources and distribution of a global payments platform while retaining its security-specialist focus.
  • Learning surface: Opportunity to work across protocol design, AI/ML behavioral detection, real-time systems, and multi-chain infrastructure.
  • Strong security-culture credibility: Track record spans resolving 200+ incidents and partnering with teams from day-one launches to IPOs.
  • Work policy/perks: Remote/hybrid policy and compensation details are not publicly available; open roles are listed on the company's careers page jobs.gem.com.

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