# MadeThis Recruits Founding Team to Scale Autonomous Business Platform

**Author:** Zero G Talent
**Published:** 2026-11-15
**Category:** engineering
**Tags:** yc-hiring, artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, b2b software, software engineering, sales

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Founded in 2025 and backed by Y Combinator's F25 batch, [MadeThis](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/madethis) is building an autonomous business platform designed to let users conceive and launch automated business operations in under 30 seconds. Operating out of San Francisco with a three-person team, the company is now making its first core technical and go-to-market hires to support tens of thousands of automated business deployments.

## Founder Backgrounds Across Consumer AI and Infrastructure

The company was co-founded by CEO [Jacob Wright](https://zerogtalent.com/people/jacob-wright), [Cambree Bernkopf](https://zerogtalent.com/people/cambree-bernkopf), and [Santiago Gomez Paz](https://zerogtalent.com/people/santiago-gomez-paz). 

Before founding [MadeThis](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/madethis), Wright co-founded consumer AI application Castari, growing it to over one million users. He previously served as a founding engineer and forward deployed engineering manager at RunPod, where he built out the growth engineering and forward deployed engineering teams as company revenue scaled to $100 million. Bernkopf also co-founded Castari and previously led product design for YC W22 startup Remi's consumer-facing products at age 19. Gomez Paz previously founded YC W24 startup Zaymo, conducted synthetic data research at MIT, and worked in product management at Turing.com.

## Agent Architecture and Production Systems

In a product demonstration titled [AI Builder Day 8/26 - MadeThis - Self-Improving GTM Agent Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8go1VtKd2Ec), presenter Bart Palmer showcased Pond Picker, a self-improving go-to-market agent helper that evaluates advertising channels under specified spend constraints, target cost-per-lead rules, and automated execution guardrails.

To build out its fundamental agent models, [MadeThis](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/madethis) is recruiting a [Head of Research](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/head-of-research-106822) ($250,000 – $500,000 / year) in San Francisco. As the first member and leader of the research function, the hire will set technical direction and manage the loop from research experiments to production systems supporting over 40,000 autonomous businesses. 

To power these workloads, the team is also hiring a [Founding Engineer, Platform](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/founding-engineer-platform-105107) ($200,000 – $350,000 / year) in San Francisco. The role owns core platform systems end to end, including the agent runtime, billing systems, deployment pipelines, and storefront fleet infrastructure.

## Expanding Enterprise Customer Deployments

Beyond its San Francisco headquarters, [MadeThis](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/madethis) is expanding into field engineering and sales across New York, NY and Salt Lake City, UT.

The company is seeking a [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/forward-deployed-engineer-105108) ($250,000 – $350,000 / year) to work on-site in San Francisco, New York, or Salt Lake City. The engineer will embed directly inside enterprise customer organizations to model workflows, connect internal tools, and train specialized agents. Alongside technical deployments, [MadeThis](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/madethis) is hiring a [Founding Account Executive](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/founding-account-executive-106823) ($150,000 – $300,000 / year) across the same three locations to serve as its first sales representative, working directly with the founders to establish pipeline, conduct discovery, and shape pricing models for AI employees operating within enterprise software.

## Open Roles at MadeThis

| Role | Location | Work Mode | Salary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Head of Research](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/head-of-research-106822) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $250,000 – $500,000 / yr |
| [Founding Engineer, Platform](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/founding-engineer-platform-105107) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $200,000 – $350,000 / yr |
| [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/forward-deployed-engineer-105108) | San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Salt Lake City, UT, US | Onsite | $250,000 – $350,000 / yr |
| [Founding Account Executive](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/madethis/founding-account-executive-106823) | San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Salt Lake City, UT, US | Onsite | $150,000 – $300,000 / yr |

[See all open roles at MadeThis](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/madethis)

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