CAREERS · FOUNDING ROLES · WAITLIST OPEN
Uptick Board is the ad exchange for AI categories. Every category has a ticker and one top spot, and one company holds it at a time. We're forming the founding team now, one role at a time, from a waitlist.
HOW WE WORK
Research covers the categories on the board. Holders can't pay for a note, see one early, or approve one.
Decide what counts as a category, then cover it. Define categories, write tickers, merge duplicates, and write the weekly category notes for The Uptick Report: who holds #1, what moved, who's watching, who's new.
You might be: a banking or research analyst, a market researcher, or someone with taxonomy instincts and strong opinions about naming.
Your agents: a category drafter, a duplicate finder and the weekly data pull.
Suggested pitch: A Category or A Coverage Note.
Own a sector's coverage (agents, infrastructure, devtools). Run the data behind every note, from price history and the Wire to watchers, and set the standard the analysts write to.
You might be: a few years into research, consulting or strategy, and tired of writing decks no one reads.
Your agents: price-history and watcher pulls, chart drafts and a fact-checker for every note.
Suggested pitch: A Coverage Note.
This is the sales role, and there's no script. Find the AI companies that belong at #1 in your categories and walk founders and marketing leads through how sealed stakes and the top spot work.
You might be: an AE at an AI or devtools company, a newsletter sponsorship seller, or a founder who sold their own product.
Your agents: prospect research, first-draft outreach and follow-up tracking.
Suggested pitch: A Holder.
Own a sector of the board end to end. Lead its Category Partners, hold the senior relationships, and know every company that could hold #1 before they know they want to.
You might be: a coverage banker, a media sales director, or a senior seller at an adtech company.
Your agents: a sector pipeline tracker and an account brief before every call.
Suggested pitch: A Holder or A Partner.
You're the person a holder emails. Keep their category entry sharp, help them read their watchers and clicks, and make holding the top spot worth it month after month.
Your agents: weekly holder reports on watchers and clicks, and follow-up reminders.
Suggested pitch: A Holder or A Fix.
Edit the Monday issue and write the desk notes on the Wire. Plain, unhurried, accurate.
Your agents: desk-note drafts from board events and a first draft of the Monday issue.
Suggested pitch: A Monday.
Find categories before anyone has named them. Source AI companies, propose categories with a ticker, and introduce sponsors to the desk.
Your agents: launch tracking for new AI companies and products, and category drafts.
Suggested pitch: A Category or A Partner.
The first sales leader, once Coverage needs one.
Your agents: pipeline and forecast reporting across Coverage.
Build the Pit and run it. The Pit is our trade-show booth: a live board people can walk up to, with a tap-to-pay reader on every category, where a company can take #1 at the take price on the spot. You'll own the build, the shipping crates, the show calendar and the setup on the day, and you'll make a convention hall feel like an open-outcry floor.
You might be: an experiential or event producer, a booth builder, or someone who has run hardware demos at big tech shows.
Your agents: the show calendar and lead capture from the Pit.
Suggested pitch: A Show.
Not on the list? Pitch us the role you'd create.
Your agents: the ones your role needs. Tell us which in your pitch.
Suggested pitch: A Role.
HOW TO JOIN THE WAITLIST: PITCH US
Every application is a pitch. Pick one. Each role suggests the pitch that suits it, but any pitch works for any role. And every pitch comes with a city: we don't have an office yet, and when we open one, it goes where an applicant made the best case.
The city for the first Uptick office, in 150 words or fewer: the AI companies there, the coffee, the train line, the reason. It doesn't have to be where you live.
An AI category that isn't on the board: name, four-letter ticker, the company that should hold #1, and why now.
One page on a category already on the board: who holds #1, what moved, what to watch. House rules: no ratings, no price targets.
A company that belongs at #1 somewhere, and the first email you'd send its founder.
Something you built for the board with AI: a tool for holders, readers or the desk. Send the link.
Paste it into whatever you build with, or point your tool at uptickboard.com/brief.An agent you'd put on the desk: what it does, which role it works for, and a working demo. Send the link.
The job you'd create, with its ticker and your first 90 days.
The first event the Pit should go to, and how you'd run the booth.
The subject line and opening paragraph of next Monday's Uptick Report.
One thing on the board that's wrong or could be better, and your fix.
A newsletter, community or event we should work with, and what each side gets.
The waitlist opens shortly. Email the desk in the meantime: desk@uptickboard.com
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Joining the waitlist isn't an offer of employment. Uptick Board is operated by Gusto Solutions, LLC. We consider every applicant without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Questions: desk@uptickboard.com