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title: 'GTM Associate at Raylu AI'
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# GTM Associate at Raylu AI

- **Company:** Raylu AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/raylu-ai/684e53cb-bacd-4209-b762-3fbbbda26bfb

## Job description

## OUR MISSION

Private markets shape which companies get built and how innovation scales - yet origination still runs on manual workflows and fragmented tools. Raylu is the AI origination engine for private markets, so every investor can see more of the market, qualify faster, and move first.

We’re not building generic AI. Raylu is purpose-built for Growth Equity and PE - already powering sourcing for leading funds with:

- Real-time market maps aligned to your thesis
- Standardized, enriched company signals and benchmark
- Deep contextual research on emerging companies
- Automated, fund-voice outreach to founders and execs

## ABOUT THE ROLE

The GTM Associate is Raylu's on-ramp into enterprise sales, where you learn the craft from inside real deals with leading private-markets funds. This is an outbound-first role: you'll open doors at the funds we most want to work with, then stay close to those deals as they move - sitting in on discovery, contributing to strategy, and learning what it takes to close.

You'll report directly to our Head of Sales and work shoulder to shoulder with our AEs, product, and leadership. Because we're early, you won't just run the outbound motion, you'll help build it: the messaging, the plays, the qualification criteria, and the playbook the next hires learn from.

## WHAT YOU WILL OWN

- Strategic outbound into named institutional investors: research-led, multi-threaded prospecting across growth equity and private equity funds with messaging sharp enough for a Managing Director's inbox
- Your number: own a qualified-meeting and pipeline target across email, LinkedIn, and warm intros and consistently beat it
- Campaigns that convert: design targeted outbound plays by strategy, fund size, thesis, or trigger event; test subject lines, personas, and timing; double down on what works
- Deal strategy: map stakeholders and qualify leads through a proven sales methodology; identify the pain that moves deals forward and hand AEs opportunities that are set up to close
- Product mastery: know Raylu well so you can speak credibly to how a fund would actually use it
- Events: support Raylu's presence at industry conferences, dinners, and roundtables - pre-event outreach, on-the-ground meetings, post-event follow-through
- Clean handoffs: pristine CRM hygiene, sharp discovery notes, and context that travels with the deal
- Tight GTM feedback loop: turn what you hear from partners and MDs into ICP refinement, messaging, and product insight
- Build, don't just execute: codify what works into outbound messaging, qualification criteria, and playbooks - the foundations of Raylu's sales engine

## WHAT YOU WILL NEED

- 0-3 years of experience; SDR/BDR, client-facing sales, or a finance-adjacent background (banking, PE, consulting, fintech) all work
- Exceptional writing: crisp, specific, research-backed outreach that earns 30 seconds of a Managing Director's attention
- Comfort with high-volume, high-quality outbound - you know the difference between activity and progress
- Ability to learn a complex product fast and explain it simply to a sophisticated audience
- Fluency (or fast fluency) in modern sales tooling: CRM, sequencing, enrichment, and AI-assisted research
- Genuine curiosity about private markets - how investors source, diligence, and win deals - and about AI
- Organized enough to run many senior conversations in parallel without dropping a thread
- Coachable and comfortable moving without perfect information
- Competitive drive, resilience, and clear ambition to earn a quota-carrying seat

## BONUS

- Exposure to PE/VC/LPs, investment banking, or capital-markets teams - as a seller, operator, or prior career
- Familiarity with LLMs and how AI is changing research and outreach workflows
- Prior success building outbound campaigns or running event programs from scratch

## WHO YOU ARE

- Owner's mindset: autonomous, accountable, and relentless about outcomes
- High-velocity: you generate pipeline, keep momentum, and don't wait for permission
- Curious and technical: you learn fast, ask great questions, and simplify complexity
- Ambitious and resilient: you like the hard problems and win through preparation
- A builder: you get energized creating something from scratch and want to shape the team, not just join it
- Kind and collaborative: you elevate the room and make teams better

WHY JOIN RAYLU?

- Real traction: selling into leading private-markets funds; clear, referenceable outcomes
- Talent density: small, senior, mission-obsessed team - big scope, zero bureaucracy
- Speed: ship fast with direct lines to product, data, and leadership
- A real path: this role is built to grow into AE, GTM strategy, or RevOps as Raylu scales
- Category moment: AI is rewiring origination; Raylu is the platform built for it

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

$70K–$90K base | $120K–$140K OTE + meaningful equity

- Daily paid lunches; wellness + Citi Bike benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with 3% automatic contribution (no vesting)
- High-performance in-office culture in Midtown Manhattan (Mon–Fri)
- Unlimited PTO

## About Raylu AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Raylu is an AI-native origination engine for private markets that helps investment funds source, research, and execute deals faster by turning investment theses into actionable market maps and outreach.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Ali Dastjerdi (CEO), Nathan Ondracek (CTO), Samuel Ilkka (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning for financial services (private market investing)
- **Target customers**: B2B – venture capital, private equity, family offices, and institutional investors (funds representing over $500B in AUM)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Turn investment strategy into deployed capital” – closing the gap between conviction and capital in private markets.

## Products & Services
- **[AI Origination Engine](https://raylu.ai/)**: Core SaaS platform that ingests 300,000+ sources to build custom market maps around an investor’s thesis, surfaces high-fit targets, and supports outreach and deal management.
- **[Discover](https://raylu.ai/)**: Module for exploring companies, trends, and markets based on an investment thesis.
- **[Understand](https://raylu.ai/)**: Research synthesis tool that summarizes, contextualizes, and connects insights across CRM, data rooms, pitch decks, meeting notes, and external research.
- **[Outreach](https://raylu.ai/)**: AI‑powered personalized founder outreach that adapts to each company and relationship.
- **[Deal](https://raylu.ai/)**: Deal flow management to convert conversations into relationships and win investments.
- **Add‑on capabilities** (per Crunchbase product list):
  - Data Room Analysis (go/no‑go decision support)
  - Expert Network Call Takeaways (summarizes expert opinions)
  - Model Assumptions Check (validates financial model assumptions)
  - Contracts, IP & Regulatory Review (identifies legal risks)
  - Online Research Aggregation (aggregates info from web sources)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; however, Raylu reports that **50+ funds** use its platform, representing **$500B+ in AUM**, and users see **50% less time from thesis to deployed capital**, **40% fewer deals missed**, **3.2× pipeline lift**, and **3× more founder meetings** [raylu.ai](https://raylu.ai/).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No public funding or strategic partner announcements were found; Crunchbase lists no institutional investors. Platform integrations include DealCloud, Affinity, Salesforce, and an MCP integration with Claude.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Actively hiring across multiple senior roles (Senior Full Stack, Backend, Frontend, AI, Data Engineers, Account Executives, Strategic Accounts Director) [raylu.ai/career](https://raylu.ai/career).
  - Achieved SOC 2 Type I & Type II certification, GDPR and CCPA compliance, and maintains zero‑retention agreements with model providers [raylu.ai](https://raylu.ai/).
  - Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, indicating a physical hub for a growing team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose‑built for private markets**: Unlike general‑purpose database tools, Raylu reads what companies actually do across 300,000+ sources and constructs market maps from scratch around each thesis, avoiding the “same list” that competitors see.
- **Data security and isolation**: SOC 2 certified, data encrypted in transit and at rest, never shared across customers, and no training on customer data. Single‑tenant deployments available for firms with higher security requirements.
- **Integration depth**: Connects to major CRMs (DealCloud, Affinity, Salesforce) and ingests unstructured data from CIMs, pitch decks, spreadsheets, meeting notes, and data rooms.
- **MCP integration with Claude**: Allows users to access Raylu’s sourcing and research directly inside Claude’s interface.

## Strategic Focus
Raylu is focused on automating the entire private market investment workflow—from thesis creation to capital deployment—using advanced LLM technology. Current priorities include expanding platform integrations, deepening AI capabilities (market mapping, research synthesis, personalized outreach), and scaling the go‑to‑market team (hiring Account Executives and Strategic Accounts Directors) to serve a growing base of institutional funds [raylu.ai](https://raylu.ai/company).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven team**: Built by former investors and engineers who experienced the pain of manual data aggregation and synthesis; the culture emphasizes moving at “the speed of conviction.”
- **Cutting‑edge AI in finance**: Employees work on LLM‑powered tools that are directly transforming how top funds operate, with real‑world impact measured in deployed capital.
- **Office location**: Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, “the global center of finance” – hybrid/office policy implied by the team building in‑person.
- **Career opportunities**: Open roles span engineering (Senior Full Stack, Backend, Frontend, AI, Data), sales (Account Executive, Strategic Accounts Director), and leadership, suggesting a fast‑growing, high‑autonomy environment [jobs.ashbyhq.com/raylu-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/raylu-ai).
- **Perks & culture**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company’s emphasis on security, privacy, and its “trust center” suggests a mature, compliance‑aware environment. The team size is still relatively small (Crunchbase lists 1‑10 employees, though active hiring implies growth), offering significant ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [raylu.ai](https://raylu.ai/)
2. [raylu.ai/company](https://raylu.ai/company)
3. [raylu.ai/career](https://raylu.ai/career)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/raylu-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/raylu-ai)
5. [crunchbase.com/organization/raylu](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/raylu)

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