# Founding GTM at TraceRoot.AI

- Company: TraceRoot.AI (YC S25)
- What the company does: Open source self-improving layer for AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://traceroot.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $140K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/traceroot-ai/jobs/9JpJdnw-founding-gtm
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/traceroot-ai-founding-gtm/

## About the role

Make developers care about the open source : own the path from GitHub star to install to traces flowing in. Launches on Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, and X that land, and the follow-through that turns a spike into retained users.

## What they're looking for

- You've marketed a developer product: you've grown an open-source project, a devtool, or an AI-infra product, and you can point at the launches, posts, docs, or pages that did it
- You can run a technical sales call: you're comfortable demoing to engineers, asking the uncomfortable qualifying questions, and following up until you get an answer either way
- Technically credible, not necessarily an engineer: you can install TraceRoot yourself with Claude Code, read a stack trace, and explain what it does without a hand-holder. You do not need to ship production code for this role
- Distribution-obsessed: you've built a launch, a content play, or an outbound motion that actually converted, and you get a genuine kick out of it
- Strong sense of ownership and bias for action: you own outcomes, not tasks, you move fast, make pragmatic decisions, and thrive in ambiguity without waiting for a roadmap
- DevRel / dev-tool marketing: you've done developer relations, developer-tools marketing, or GTM at a dev-tool / AI-infra company

Tags: Sales