SHUSHU •ּשוּשוּ

Founding roles you won't find anywhere else

Discover career-defining Founding Employee Founding employees are the first 10 non-founder employees of a company, or the first product, design, go-to-market, customer success, or ops hires in pre Series-A companies. roles at the next generation of Israeli startups.

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How it works

Personalized and Double Opt-In

A simple process to discover opportunities and talent easily and discreetly:

  1. Candidates fill a form and Shushu makes them a personalized Founding Employee job board.

  2. Every day, newly posted positions from founders are added to relevant candidates' boards.

  3. When a candidate is interested in a role, we share their information with the founders. If the interest is mutual, they connect directly.

For Talent

Your next career-defining opportunity is
hidden in plain sight

Discreetly browse through a personalized job board to find relevant Founding Employee Founding employees are the first 10 non-founder employees of a company, or the first product, design, go-to-market, customer success, or ops hires in pre Series-A companies. roles, and discover breakout startups early.

Discover Opportunities

Completely Discreet • Double Opt-In

For Founders

Find your next ride-or-die

Expand your reach beyond your immediate network to exceptional talent across the Israeli ecosystem.

Post Your Positions

Free • Double Opt-In • Stealth-Friendly

FAQs

Great Questions

Who's behind this and why?
Hi :) We're Symbol, a first-check VC investing in Israeli pre-consensus founders and companies. Working with founders, we’ve noticed a market gap in hiring founding employees.

Founding Employee roles are hard to find and hire for. Early stage founders typically don’t have the money to advertise open positions, or to engage headhunters or recruiters. And companies are often still in stealth, which makes it hard for potential employees to discover these opportunities.

We feel strongly that solving this gap could help advance our ecosystem. So we created Shushu as a way for exceptional candidates and founders to find each other, while maintaining openness, discretion, and trust.

Shushu is an open platform for all candidates and founders in the Israeli ecosystem.
How do you define a Founding Employee?

By 'Founding Employee', we mean early team members who join before or around product-market fit, typically with meaningful ownership, breadth of responsibility, and influence on company direction.

Specifically, this platform focuses on access to these opportunities:

  • First 10 non-founder employees in any role
  • First Product, Design, GTM, CS, or ops hires (even at 10+ employees)
  • At pre Series-A companies in the Israeli ecosystem
I signed up to find founding employee roles, now what?
Within 24 hours after filling the sign up form, we will create and share a personalized job board for you, based on your search preferences and professional background. There, you can see all relevant open positions.

From there, it’s a double opt-in: If you see a role you like, you can let us know and we’ll send your details to the founders. If they also think you’re a good fit, they will get in touch with you directly.
I listed a position, what happens next?
Shushu works by creating personalized job boards for candidates. We update these daily, so within 24 hours, your position will be posted to relevant talent’s job boards. We'll let you know when this happens.

From there, it’s a double opt-in: Once someone is interested in the role, they will let us know, and we’ll send you their details. If the interest is mutual, you can contact them directly.
What about discretion?

We've built Shushu around discretion:

  • We operate strictly on a double opt-in basis. Founders only see talent that expressed interest, and talent only see relevant roles.
  • You can share as much or as little as you're comfortable with.
  • We will never share any data you give us with anyone without your express permission to do so.
Does this cost anything?
No, Shushu is completely free.
Is this platform just for the Symbol portfolio?
No. We built Shushu to be 100% open to candidates and founders in the Israeli ecosystem, not just our portfolio companies.