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Multiple stakeholders, hours of calls, and endless emails. At Hyperbound, we're building the AI Agent that will help sales teams untangle that mess.\nHyperbound is the Revenue Activation Platform: an agentic OS for sales that connects what happens to what should happen next.\nWe came out of YC S23 and went viral with Voice Agents that reps could call to put their skills to the test. Today, we’re building AI that understands sales conversations, coaches in real time, reasons across deals, and takes action to move them forward.\nWe are trusted by companies like LinkedIn, Amazon, Notion, and Vanta. We raised a $15M Series A in October 2025, grew ARR 5× over the past year, and are growing nearly 20% month over month.\nThe team you'll build with\nWe’re former YC founders and founding engineers. We like hard problems, strong opinions, and getting something into customers’ hands while the idea is still fresh.\nWe work with high trust and real autonomy. You’ll have the context to make decisions, the freedom to choose your approach. We trust you to spot problems, challenge assumptions, and move things forward without waiting for step-by-step direction.\nWe have each other’s backs. When something goes wrong, we focus on fixing it and learning, not pointing fingers. You’ll have teammates who share what they know, tell you what they think, and jump in to help. We move quickly because we trust each other, give direct feedback, and make decisions together.\nWe’re optimistic enough to take ambitious swings and willing to change our minds when the evidence comes back. We ship quickly, learn from customers, and keep improving.\nAbout the role\nYou’ll work alongside our Founding QA Engineer to help Hyperbound ship quickly and confidently. We release new features weekly, and you’ll independently own quality for the features and product areas you take on, from writing test plans and running user acceptance testing to building automation and verifying fixes. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and Solutions Engineers to catch issues early and improve how we test as we grow.\nWhat we need from you\nTechnical depth: You can investigate, reproduce, and clearly document a bug. You build reliable automated tests and can tell whether a failure points to a product issue or a problem with the test.\n\nProduct judgment: You think about how customers actually use the product. You look beyond the happy path and prioritize issues based on their impact.\n\nOwnership: You take testing from planning through release. When you find a problem, you help drive it to resolution and verify the fix.\n\nConviction: You push back clearly when something isn’t ready to ship. You explain the risk to PMs, engineers, or founders and help the team decide what needs to happen before release.\n\nCollaboration: You work closely with our Founding QA Engineer, share what you learn, and help improve our coverage and processes.\n\nHighly preferred\nExperience testing AI or LLM products, where outputs can vary and quality isn’t always a simple pass or fail.\n\nExperience working in an early-stage startup or another environment with rapid product releases.\n\nWhat your regular Thursday looks like:\nTest planning: Partner with Product and Engineering to understand upcoming features, identify risks and edge cases, and define the right level of coverage before they ship.\n\nRelease testing: Run functional, exploratory, user acceptance, and regression testing across connected product workflows, and give the team a clear assessment of release readiness and remaining risk.\n\nTechnical investigation: Dig into unexpected behavior using browser developer tools, APIs, logs, and other technical signals to isolate issues and give engineers actionable findings.\n\nAutomation: Build and maintain reliable automated tests across critical product workflows, turning repeated manual checks into scalable regression coverage.\n\nCustomer bugs: Work with Solutions Engineers to reproduce customer-reported issues, determine scope and impact, and drive fixes through verification.\n\nRegression prevention: Add automated checks, verify fixes, and expand coverage so the same classes of issues don’t keep reaching customers.\n\nProcess improvement: Work with our Founding QA Engineer to strengthen testing standards, improve tooling and coverage, and evolve how QA fits into Hyperbound’s fast release cycle.\n\nWhat this role is not\nA manual-testing-only role. You’ll investigate issues hands-on and build automation that reduces repetitive work.\n\nA role where you wait for a finished feature and a checklist. You’ll help shape test plans and raise risks before release.\n\nA solo QA function. You’ll work alongside our Founding QA Engineer while taking independent ownership of your work.\n\nRequirements\n3+ years of software quality engineering experience testing modern web applications or SaaS products.\n\nStrong ability to independently design and execute test strategies rather than relying only on predefined test cases.\n\nExperience building and maintaining automated test suites using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar frameworks.\n\nStrong understanding of API testing and experience validating interactions between frontend, backend, and third-party systems.\n\nAbility to investigate complex bugs using browser developer tools, logs, API requests, application behavior, and other technical evidence.\n\nExperience writing clear, actionable bug reports and communicating quality risks to engineers and product stakeholders.\n\nWorking understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how automated tests fit into development and release workflows.\n\nStrong product judgment: you understand how customers use a product and prioritize testing based on risk and impact.\n\nAbility to manage multiple projects, releases, and customer issues in a fast-moving environment.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\n\nHigh ownership and comfort operating with ambiguity.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nBase: $120,000 - $140,000\n\nEquity: 0.025% - 0.05%\n\nHealth: Medical, dental, and vision coverage\n\nTime off: Unlimited PTO\n\nOffice: San Francisco, commuter benefits offered\n\nInterview Process:\nIntro call with James, Founding Recruiter (30 min)\n\nConversation with Aigulia, Founding QA Lead (30 min)\n\nTechnical evaluation (60 min)\n\nFinal onsite interview (60 min)\n\nWe move fast, from first conversation to offer in 1 to 2 weeks, and we'll be transparent with you at every stage.\nEqual Opportunity\nHyperbound is an equal opportunity employer. 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