YC Founder Whisperer

PostHog • San Francisco, CA

5d • Remote

About The Position

You'll be working with some of the fastest-growing startups in the world while being able to shape how early-stage teams adopt analytics, feature flags, experimentations, LLM analytics, and more. This is an exciting role to influence product direction by bringing consistent, high-signal feedback from high-growth founders. You get to own a unique high-impact segment: companies that grow quickly and often become major PostHog customers.

Requirements

• Strong technical aptitude; able to work directly with engineering teams.
• Experience at an early-stage startup (preferably YC) — ideally a former YC founder or early employee.
• Ability to guide teams on event modeling, instrumentation, and analytics best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of 30+ accounts and prioritize effectively.
• Based in the Bay Area to meet customers as needed

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with similar technologies, ie. developer tools more broadly, or specifically product analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, data warehouses, or data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own relationships with YC companies spending $20k–$50k/year under the PostHog credits program.
• Help YC founders and early engineers implement PostHog correctly: instrumentation, schemas, metrics, and multi-product usage.
• Provide technical guidance on analytics, feature flags, experimentation, and replay.
• Monitor growth signals to determine when YC companies will exceed the $50k threshold and transition to TAM ownership.
• represent YC user needs in all the things
• Offer lightweight, high-leverage guidance appropriate for early-stage teams.
• Ensure YC companies are set up for long-term success before they become revenue-generating.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees