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title: 'Startups Lead at Attio'
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# Startups Lead at Attio

- **Company:** Attio
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$275k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/attio/044a5bce-168a-4712-95b8-e11735075300

## Job description

Attio is the CRM for agentic revenue. Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need. We've raised $116M from some of the world's best investors: GV (Google Ventures), Redpoint, Balderton, Point Nine, and 01A. We hire builders who thrive on complex technical challenges, hold themselves to a high bar, and genuinely care about delighting the people who use what they build. The team here brings sharp judgement, real craft, and the drive to do exceptional work. We're obsessed about the details and energized by the frontier. If you want to do the best work of your career, this is the right place.

## About the role

We want every great startup to be using Attio. This role exists to make that happen. We're looking for someone who has lived the startup journey, knows the ecosystem inside out, and has the relationships and instincts to move fast at the highest level. You'll own Attio's position in the Bay Area entirely - from the programs and partnerships that drive adoption, to the events and content that shape how founders think about Attio, to removing whatever friction stands between a great startup becoming a customer. You'll operate with founder-level scope and autonomy - working across product, sales, and marketing to remove blockers and do whatever it takes to make Attio the default CRM for the best startups in the world. The ideal candidate is deeply networked in SF and the broader tech ecosystem, has the pattern recognition of a former founder, VC, or early operator at a generational company, and is senior enough to drive forward and make things happen. Important Note: We’re approaching this search with some flexibility on title, level, and compensation — our priority is finding the right person, and we’ll shape the role accordingly.

## What you'll do

- Startup dominance - Own the goal of getting every top startup onto Attio, with a relentless focus on YC and top accelerator cohorts, Series A penetration, and logos across the best VC portfolios
- Strategic partnerships - Build deep relationships with the most influential VCs, accelerators, and ecosystem players - not as a channel, but as a genuine partner in how they support their portfolios
- Events + community - Conceive and execute high-impact events - demo days, summits, dinners, hackathons - that bring the best founders together and position Attio at the centre of that world
- Founder relationships - Be personally known and trusted by the founders of the next generation of breakout companies; be their go-to for advice, introductions, and tools
- Cross-functional execution - Work across product, sales, and marketing to remove friction, identify gaps, and ship whatever is needed - new motions, integrations, custom work - to serve the startup market
- Content + storytelling - Shape the narrative that makes Attio the obvious CRM choice for founders, producing content that resonates deeply with how they actually build

## What you’ll bring

- 7+ years of experience as a founder, VC, or early operator at a high-growth startup - you've been in the room when the important decisions get made
- A genuine, existing network across the startup ecosystem - you know the founders, the investors, and the connectors
- The instincts and credibility to earn trust with early-stage founders quickly, and the seniority to drive decisions internally at pace
- A track record of building and shipping complex programs or initiatives that moved the needle
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives for the founder audience
- A builder's mindset - you're comfortable with ambiguity, operate with urgency, and take full ownership of outcomes
- An eye for quality - whether it's a startup program, a founder dinner, or a piece of content, you know what great looks like and hold yourself to it

What does the hiring process look like?

- Initial conversations
- 30-minute intro with a member of our Talent team
- 30-minute track record interview with our Chief of Staff
- Core interviews
- The interview process will include three working sessions exploring your approach to problem solving and execution, ecosystem and activation thinking, and your perspective on AI, founder authenticity, and values alignment.
- Final stage
- 30-minute closing conversation with a member of our leadership team
- Offer call (if it’s a mutual fit)

## About Attio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Attio is an AI-native CRM platform that helps go-to-market teams build pipeline, automate workflows, and manage customer relationships with real-time data and autonomous agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; $52M raised August 2025)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Adam Kingsley (CEO), Anne Zaragoza (CTO), Tom Wagner (VP of Sales) – note: LinkedIn also lists Nicolas Sharp as Founder and CEO, indicating a discrepancy. [attio.com](https://attio.com/) | [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/attio)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development / Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- **Target customers**: B2B; mid-market and enterprise go-to-market teams (Sales, Customer Success, Finance)
- **Mission**: To provide the revenue platform engineered for scale, where AI agents work alongside humans to capture every signal and move every deal forward.

## Products & Services
- **[Attio CRM Platform]**: A fully customizable, data-driven CRM with an adaptive data model, live customer context (Universal Context™), and AI-powered agents that automate lead capture, deal progression, renewal tracking, and reporting. Delivered as SaaS.
- **[Attio Agents]**: Autonomous revenue agents that execute playbooks (e.g., lead outreach at 2am, renewal alerts) and make over 1 million API calls per week. [attio.com](https://attio.com/)
- **[Data Enrichment]**: Built-in enrichment that learns from connected inboxes and calendars to populate records automatically.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of ~$15.5M (LinkedIn estimate) and Total Funding of $137.5M across 6 rounds. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/attio)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series B included 5 investors; Series A (2023) had 3 investors. Specific names not listed in search results.
- **Growth Signals**: 150 employees (+87.2% YoY), 52,691 LinkedIn followers, 45 active job postings (+246% YoY), 1,000+ agents running concurrently, 100M MCP tool calls per month. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/attio) | [attio.com](https://attio.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Universal Context™**: A single, live layer of customer data that every team and agent acts on, eliminating silos.
- **AI-Native Architecture**: Sub-50ms latency, millions of records, and built-in agents that operate 24/7 – differentiating from legacy CRMs like Salesforce or HubSpot.
- **Adaptive Data Model**: The CRM automatically structures itself around the user’s business processes from day one (via connected email/calendar).

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the platform for enterprise customers and expanding the agent ecosystem.
- Deepening AI capabilities (autonomous agents, MCP tool calls) to reduce manual GTM work.
- Growing headcount across Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Product – with a particular emphasis on building out the US and European offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as built for “the people who own the number” – ambitious, data-driven, and fast-moving.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid – 3 days per week on-site at London HQ; remote options for roles in Portugal, Ireland, Germany, and other European countries; also hybrid in New York and San Francisco. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/attio)
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company emphasizes security (ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA) and a modern tech stack.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy investment in infrastructure (sub-50ms latency, millions of records), AI agents, and platform engineering. Open roles include Staff Product Engineer, Senior Platform Engineer, and Data Engineering Lead. [attio.com/careers](https://attio.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [attio.com](https://attio.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/attio)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/attio)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/attio)

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