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Funding and backers

Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
29
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Conviction, Sequoia Capital
Momentum
16/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 17 First role in United Kingdom Founding EMEA Marketing Lead Jul 10 First executive search Head of Customer Marketing
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 37 points
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How Listen Labs hires

Truth index
A 91/100
Median time to fill
112 days
Ghost roles
7%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Listen Labs scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 29 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 7% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 112 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Listen Labs is an AI research platform that conducts, analyzes, and summarizes user interviews at scale. Brands design studies, recruit qualified participants, run AI-moderated interviews in 120+ languages, and get analysis, reports, and highlight reels in one workspace.

News

News DMR News 1 month ago
Listen Labs Walks Away From $125 Million Series C Amid Salesforce Acquisition Talks
Listen Labs, an AI market research startup, walked away from a signed term sheet for a $125 million Series C that would have valued the company at $1.5
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News TNW Merge-and-acquisition 1 month ago
Salesforce closes Fin and weighs a $2bn Listen Labs deal
Salesforce closes its $3.6bn Fin deal and has reportedly held talks to buy Listen Labs for $2bn. The catch: a 67x revenue multiple.
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News YahooFinance 1 month ago
Salesforce in $2B Talks to Acquire Listen Labs - Consolidating the Agentic Research Stack
Salesforce is in preliminary talks to acquire Listen Labs for approximately $2 billion. The deal is not yet finalized, but the startup's recent financial moves suggest a high-stakes exit is the primary goal. Listen Labs recently walked away from a signed
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Listen Labs Ditches $1.5B Menlo Ventures Round for Salesforce Acquisition Talks
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News PYMNTS.com 1 month ago
Salesforce Eyes $2 Billion Acquisition of AI-Powered Platform Listen Labs
Salesforce has been in talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform, for about $2 billion.
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News YahooFinance 1 month ago
CRM Stock Dips 2% - Salesforce Is Reportedly In Talks To Acquire AI Research Firm Listen Labs For $2B
Listen Labs operates an AI-driven market and customer research platform for marketing insights.
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News Business Insider 1 month ago
Salesforce has held talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI customer research platform, for around $2 billion
Salesforce has had talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that provides marketing research to brands, for around $2 billion.
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News listenlabs.ai 7 months ago
We Lied to Our Claude Code Agent (to Make it Safe) - Listen Labs AI-led User Interviews
How we ran a Claude Code agent in production without ever giving it access to its own API keys
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News ᨒ MindDump 1 year ago
How I Spent Three Nights Solving Listen Labs Berghain Challenge
When a cryptic billboard led to the most addictive coding challenge of 2025 Optimization problems are quite literally digital crack cocaine. Once you get a taste of turning 1,200 rejections into 1,150, then 1,000, then watching that number drop digit by a
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Listen Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
28
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript4%
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic100%
Perplexity100%
Scale AI96%
Replit86%
AI & ML
LLM11%
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Full Listen Labs tech stack 8 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$140k – $360k
Open positions
16
14 Jobs
Junior 14.3%
Middle 14.3%
Senior 28.6%
Staff 42.9%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $140k $140k
Middle 2 $150k $150k
Senior 4 $250k $250k
Staff 6 $300k $170k – $300k
Highest paying role Account Executive, Strategic Accounts $360k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Listen Labs By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
34/100
Slowing
Open positions
29
1 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
77 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
HR
23% ▼
Sales
23% ▼
Solutions
23% ▲
Marketing
15% ▲
AI/ML
8% ▲
Customer Success
8% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added TypeScript to stack Oct 2026
Added Terraform to stack Oct 2026
Added OWASP Top 10 to stack Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Listen Labs, 85 2nd St, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94105
15 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 200-500 est. staff $281k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, AI/ML
Listen Labs, 85 2nd St, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94105
seen since Mar 2025 company site, job postings
New York United States
Engineering / R&D
12 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 200-500 est. staff $246k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, AI/ML, Marketing
seen since Mar 2025 job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
5 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, HR, Marketing
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Austin United States
Sales office
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $253k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing, Solutions
seen since Jun 2026 job postings

Jobs

$180k – $300k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco · New York
TypeScript
AI Agents
LLM
Perplexity
Anthropic
Scale AI
DevOps
Terraform
Cybersecurity
OWASP Top 10
Apply
≈ $103k – $211k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · London
Perplexity
Anthropic
Replit
Scale AI
Apply
≈ $187k – $384k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · San Francisco
Perplexity
Anthropic
Replit
Scale AI
Apply
≈ $154k – $316k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Austin
Perplexity
Anthropic
Replit
Scale AI
Apply
$140k – $170k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · New York
Perplexity
Anthropic
Replit
Scale AI
Apply
$180k – $300k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco · New York
AI Agents
LLM
Perplexity
Anthropic
Scale AI
Apply
$180k – $300k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco · New York
AI Agents
LLM
Perplexity
Anthropic
Scale AI
Apply
$180k – $300k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco · New York
AI Agents
LLM
Perplexity
Anthropic
Scale AI
Apply