13 startups are hiring their very first sales rep this month — top OTE hits $350K

Asked:

“any cool startups right now hiring for their very first sales reps/AEs? only look at job listings from this last month.”

A curated shortlist of 13 startups whose job listings, posted 25 Aug – 25 Sep 2026, explicitly describe a founding sales or AE role — the first dedicated seller expected to build the playbook. Drawn from several hundred recent search results across 10 independent hosts; this is not every founding-sales opening on the web. Eight of 13 state pay; the chart shows those ranges in $K per year.

Location:

Bars span stated pay range, $K/yr — blue = remote or hybrid, orange = on-site. Grey rows: pay not stated or stated without figures. Hover a row for product, traction and the exact first-sales wording.

Reindeer lists the largest stated OTE on the shortlist, $280K–$350K, for an enterprise agentic-AI sales motion built from scratch in New York — app.twojrekruter.com

Bluejay pairs the strongest remote package ($125K–$150K base, $325K OTE uncapped) with a profitable business that has raised over $20M — tealhq.com

RevenueBase hides no risk in the fine print: $6M raised, tripled growth, 100% gross dollar retention and cashflow positive — its first dedicated AE reports to experienced sales leadership — startup.jobs

One caveat on the list: Science to People's “first sales hire” is a ~90-day remote contract as Partnerships Manager, not a standard AE job — sciencetopeople.substack.com

The full shortlist

Company / role	Posted	Location	Compensation	First-sales signal	Source

Method: curated shortlist of 13 founding sales/AE job listings posted 2026-08-25 to 2026-09-25, one row per startup, gathered from several hundred recent job-search results. Pay bars chart the numeric range each listing states, in $K per year; five listings state no figures and appear as grey rows. Posting date is the listing/search publication date shown by the source. Rows span 10 independent hosts; no single URL supplies more than one row and the largest host supplies 4 of 13. Product and traction text is condensed for space. Listings can close or change after publication — check the source before applying.

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