Founding Sales Lead

About HyprStart

HyprStart gets tradespeople hired. HVAC, electrical, and plumbing techs and apprentices apply to us for free. We find the local shops that are hiring right now, match them to the right candidates, and make the introduction. Shops only pay when someone gets hired.

The product is built and live. Real candidates apply through our job listings in markets like Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Tampa, and the Bay Area. Our AI tools find the shops and score the matches. What's missing is a person on the phone turning those matches into hires. That's you.

The role

You own the funnel from the moment a candidate applies to the day they start work. This is not a shadowing internship. You'll be the first sales hire, working directly with the founder, making real calls that close real placements.

What you'll do every day

• Work the candidate queue. Review new applications daily, call or text candidates to confirm their experience, certifications, availability, and pay expectations, and approve the ones who are ready. Nobody should wait more than 48 hours.
• Call shops. Our AI tools build your daily list of shops posting jobs right now, so you're never dialing random numbers. Call owners and service managers and pitch a specific candidate, not a service.
• Get the yes. Get shops excited about a candidate, then set up the interview or ride-along.
• Follow up until it closes. Stay on both sides through interview, offer, and first day. Most placements are won in the follow-up.
• Keep the pipeline honest. Log every call and status change in our operator console so nothing falls through.
• Tell us what you hear. Which objections come up, which markets are hot, what shops actually want. You'll help write the scripts and shape the pitch.

Who you are

• Early in your career: a student, a recent grad, or a year or two into your first job. You want real reps, not busywork.
• Hungry. You'd rather make 50 calls and hear 45 no's than wait for leads to come to you.
• Comfortable talking to blue-collar business owners. Direct, friendly, and hard to rattle.
• Organized. You follow up when you said you would, every time.
• Self-directed. You can run with loose structure and ask good questions when you're stuck.
• Free during shop hours. Owners pick up early (roughly 7 to 10am local), and our markets run from Eastern to Pacific time.

Requirements: your own laptop and phone, reliable internet, and based in the US.

Bonus points: you grew up around the trades or worked one, you've done sales, recruiting, or customer service, or you speak Spanish.

What you get

• A real title. Founding Sales Lead, or pitch us one that fits the work you're doing. It goes on your resume.
• AI-powered sales tools. Access to AI tooling to power sales.
• Real ownership. You run the funnel. Your results are your results, with numbers you can bring to any interview.
• Direct access to the founder. Weekly 1:1s, feedback on your calls, and a close look at how a company gets built.
• Uncapped upside. $50 for every interview that happens and $500 for every placement you close.
• Flexibility. Fully remote. Set your own schedule around shop hours.
• Room to grow. If this works, the role grows with it.
• A strong reference from someone who watched you do the work.

Compensation

Commission only, no cap: $50 for every interview that happens and $500 for every placement. Part-time and flexible, 15 to 25 hours a week, fully remote (US).

How to apply

Apply here on Wellfound and include:

1. A few sentences on why you want this and why you're a fit.
2. Include "HYPR" in your message.