21 founding sales and GTM roles surfaced this week — pre-seed Specsight, PCN and Octave are the earliest ways in
Asked:
“find me all founding/first gtm/account executive sales roles at startups the last week. could be first/founding head of sales too. i want to get in super early.”
A broad live-web scan over the trailing week Oct 6–13, 2026 surfaced 21 founding or first sales/GTM openings across startup boards, ATS pages, LinkedIn indexes, Wellfound, Built In, MetaIntro, Joblyst and first-hire newsletters. 16 roles have a date or age verifying they fall inside the week; the other 5 look live but carry no explicit post date and sit in a separate caution section. Dynamic boards mean this is a broad census, not a guarantee of every opening worldwide.
The week at a glance — 16 recency-verified roles by day posted
Each card is one opening. Colour = role type; hover a legend entry to isolate that type. Click a company to open the application page.
Account executive (12)GTM / growth (5)Head of sales (2)SDR (1)Sales, general (1)
Date unverified — 5 live-looking roles without an explicit post date
Surfaced in sources published or indexed during the week; treat posting recency with caution.
What stands out
Earliest entry: Specsight is pre-seed and offers $120k–$150k with 0.5%–1.5% equity for its founding GTM/growth lead — wellfound.com
Biggest equity stake on the list: Octave Logistics advertises 1.5%–10% for a founding head of sales joining at the ground level — wellfound.com
Highest stated cash: FlowGen Labs pays $350k–$400k for a founding AE selling AI into SAP enterprises, onsite in San Francisco — metaintro.com
Cast AI offers $200k–$250k OTE for a remote EU founding AE, but it is already a unicorn — less “super early” than the title suggests — builtin.com
Podcast Collaboration Network’s remote founding head of sales pays $100k–$120k base, $200k+ OTE with $250k+ upside — wellfound.com
All 21 roles
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Method: broad live-web scan across startup job boards, company/ATS listings, LinkedIn indexes, Built In, Wellfound, MetaIntro, Joblyst, newsletters and first-hire trackers; 21 rows, one per company/role, interpreted against the trailing window 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-13. “Verified” means an explicit posting date or relative age places the role inside the week; 5 undated roles are shown separately. Roles with explicitly stale evidence (e.g. two weeks or one month old) were excluded. Missing fields are left blank, never inferred. Compensation is as stated by each posting.