--- title: 'Founding GTM & Operations Lead at AgentMail' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-gtm-operations-lead-agentmail-san-francisco-yw31f1tp18z0' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Founding GTM & Operations Lead at AgentMail - **Company:** AgentMail - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/agentmail/4710a6bb-cad1-4861-b66d-c41e175bf22f ## Job description AgentMail is building the identity and communication infrastructure for AI agents, starting with email. We're a category-defining company and are looking for a Founding GTM & Operations Lead to design and run our growth playbook across all channels. This role is critical to our function and owns how AgentMail grows. You will build the systems, narrative, and execution that turn early momentum into repeatable, compounding growth. Behind the growth, you'll also set up scalable automations and operating processes, tighten internal workflows, drive pricing and logistics projects, and build the dashboards we use to make decisions. AgentMail has raised $6M from investors including General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Paul Graham (founder of YC), Karim Atiyeh (founder of Ramp), Paul Copplestone (founder of Supabase), and Dharmesh Shah (founder of HubSpot). ## What you'll work on - Build and own the GTM playbook across all channels including PLG, content, community, outbound, partnerships, events, and launches - Design and run growth experiments end to end, then scale what compounds - Turn product usage and market signal into repeatable distribution loops - Define category narrative, positioning, and messaging so AgentMail becomes the default answer - Partner with product and engineering to bake growth into the product - Create repeatable launch motions for features, use cases, and integrations - Capture data across sales, product, and ops to build the dashboards that drive decisions - Build automations, internal tools, templates, and workflows that scale - Drive initiatives in pricing, logistics, vendor management, and ops quality - Define and test early sales motions with tight feedback loops, and run cross functional projects with fast turnaround You're a fit if - You think in systems and growth loops, not one-off campaigns - You enjoy building playbooks from zero and pressure-testing them - You can run GTM across channels with high ownership - You are technical enough to build automations and develop a deep understanding of our product - You're Type A, process minded, and love making systems cleaner and faster - You can turn messy problems into crisp plans - You care about category creation, not just funnel optimization, and you want real ownership over how a company grows Bonus points - Experience growing developer tools, infrastructure, or API-first products - Familiarity with PLG and sales-assisted growth - Strong intuition for content, community, and distribution - Experience with GTM systems and softwares: Zapier or similar automation tools (Make, n8n), Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets, CRM systems like HubSpot, basic dashboard tools, and comfort working with simple API style data like JSON Previous operating, consulting, and investment banking experience is a plus. Compensation: $110K to $175K, plus 0.2% to 0.5% equity. PS. our bar for this position is ridiculously high. We are aiming to build one of the most distributed products of all time. If selected for an interview, expect growth discussions and case studies as part of our process. ## About AgentMail ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AgentMail provides an API-first email inbox service built specifically for AI agents, enabling them to send, receive, and manage emails autonomously. - **Entity Type**: Private (YC S25, Seed-stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Haakam Aujla, Adi Singh, Michael Kim ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Email infrastructure / AI agent tooling - **Target customers**: B2B – developers and platform builders creating AI agents that need to communicate via email - **Mission or purpose**: To give every AI agent its own email inbox, enabling identity, communication, and persistent memory on the internet. ## Products & Services - **AgentMail API**: REST API to programmatically create inboxes, send/receive emails with full threading, attachments, and multi-party support. Includes webhooks, WebSockets, custom domains (DKIM/SPF/DMARC), and semantic search. [agentmail.to](https://www.agentmail.to/) - **SDKs & MCP Server**: Python and TypeScript SDKs, plus an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for AI tool integration. [agentmail.to](https://www.agentmail.to/) - **IMAP & SMTP Access**: Legacy protocol support alongside the API for compatibility. [agentmail.to](https://www.agentmail.to/) - **Multi-tenant Pods**: For platform builders who need to manage inboxes across many customers. [agentmail.to](https://www.agentmail.to/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $6.625M (as of March 2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agentmailto) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S25), General Catalyst (lead in later seed round), Paul Graham, Paul Copplestone (Supabase founder), Karim Atiyeh (Ramp founder). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agentmail) - **Growth Signals**: Team size ~10 (up from 8, +200% YoY); 5,800+ LinkedIn followers (+5.4% monthly); 3 active job postings; backed by top-tier investors. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agentmailto) ## Competitive Advantages - **First-to-market for AI-native email**: Built from scratch for agent use cases, unlike legacy providers (Gmail, Outlook) that lack API-first inbox creation and impose restrictive rate limits. - **Fully managed persistent inboxes**: Handles parsing, threading, labeling, searching, and replying – agents get the same email experience as humans without building custom logic. - **Developer-first design**: Simple API key auth, no OAuth headaches, built-in permissions and guardrails, semantic search across all inboxes. - **Scalable infrastructure**: Usage-based pricing without per-inbox monthly fees, designed to handle high volumes of emails and inboxes. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to meet growing demand from AI agent builders; expanding SDK support and integrations; hiring engineering, GTM, and operations talent to accelerate product development and market adoption. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agentmail/jobs) - **Direction**: Become the default email infrastructure layer for the AI agent ecosystem, enabling agents to communicate, authenticate, and transact via email just like humans. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, YC-backed team (10 people) working on hard infrastructure problems at the intersection of email protocols and AI. Founders have backgrounds at Optiver, NVIDIA, and Accel. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agentmail) - **Remote/Hybrid**: Based in San Francisco; likely in-office given the early-stage startup nature, but not explicitly stated. - **Perks & Engineering Culture**: Competitive salary ($110K–$400K depending on role) plus meaningful equity (0.20%–2.00%). Opportunity to shape the product from the ground up, work with cutting-edge AI tooling, and join a fast-growing company backed by top investors. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agentmail/jobs) ## Sources 1. [agentmail.to](https://www.agentmail.to/) – Company website, product description, and career page 2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agentmail) – Y Combinator company profile (funding, founders, team size, open roles) 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agentmailto) – LinkedIn company page (funding rounds, headcount growth, investors, executive team) ## Other roles at AgentMail - [Agent Experience Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/agent-experience-engineer-agentmail-san-francisco-x2gzg5c28249) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding PLG & Community Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-plg-community-lead-agentmail-san-francisco-hxwsf3nnqjq6) — San Francisco, CA - [GTM Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/gtm-engineer-agentmail-san-francisco-eehm2x1gjdc3) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Engineer, Backend/Infra](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-engineer-backend-infra-agentmail-san-francisco-5z8yf46hk0fw) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-agentmail-san-francisco-e4apbq47g5qj) — San Francisco, CA