As an Account Executive focusing on Higher Education sales at Spatial Chat, you will play a crucial role in transforming the way universities engage, collaborate, and connect in a virtual space. Your responsibilities will include owning the full sales cycle by prospecting, qualifying, demonstrating, and closing deals with higher education institutions. You will engage with decision-makers such as faculty, CIOs, IT teams, and campus leaders to showcase the value of Spatial Chat and drive pipeline growth by generating new business opportunities. Collaboration with marketing and product teams will be essential as you provide feedback on market trends and customer needs. It will be your goal to meet and exceed targets by achieving revenue goals through strategic selling and consultative engagement. To excel in this role, you should bring at least 2 years of SaaS sales experience, preferably in higher education or EdTech, along with a proven track record of meeting or surpassing quotas in a B2B sales environment. A strong understanding of the higher education landscape, including virtual learning, hybrid events, and digital transformation trends, will be beneficial. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential as you will be selling to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. A self-starter mindset is key, as you will be operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Experience in selling in the US and/or EMEA markets is considered a plus. Joining us at Spatial Chat means being part of a fast-growing company that is shaping the future of virtual engagement. You will be working with an innovative product that is redefining online collaboration in education. Our remote-first culture allows for flexibility, with a team spread across global markets. Additionally, you can look forward to a competitive base salary along with uncapped commission as part of your compensation package.,
At SpatialChat, we bring events, webinars, remote work, and online education to life with immersive virtual spaces that feel personal and engaging. Whether you’re hosting a conference, a live podcast, or a collaborative webinar, our platform replicates the energy of in-person interactions, making online gatherings more dynamic and interactive. The Reality Check Building spatial communication technology at scale means solving problems that break traditional video conferencing. We’re not “another meeting app.” We’re the platform trusted by educational institutions and Fortune 500 companies when Zoom can’t handle spatial interaction requirements. What we actually do : Real-time spatial audio processing WebRTC optimization for 1000+ concurrent users Canvas LMS integration that doesn’t break during finals week Role Overview We’re hiring our Founding Full Stack Engineer. You’ll be at the core of building and scaling SpatialChat from the ground up. Expect to: Own the entire tech stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure) Design real-time systems for video, audio, and multiplayer interactions Build scalable features for thousands of concurrent users Collaborate closely with a small, scrappy team This is a high-impact role where you’ll shape the product, own decisions, and ship fast. Where You’ll Make an Impact Backend Systems : Scale Node.js microservices for 50M+ monthly interactions Real-Time Performance : Optimize WebRTC & WebSockets for <100ms latency Enterprise Integrations : Build SAML SSO that passes Fortune 500 audits Data Architecture : Design PostgreSQL schemas for 10TB+ interaction data Frontend Performance : Render 200+ video streams in Vue.js without dropped frames Measurable wins : Reduce WebSocket overhead by 40% Implement Canvas LTI 1.3 with 99.9% uptime Increase spatial audio capacity by 4x Build admin tools that cut support tickets by 60% Tech Stack Frontend : Vue.js 3, TypeScript, Pinia, Vite Backend : Node.js, Hapi.js, gRPC Databases : PostgreSQL (primary), MongoDB (spatial data) Real-time : WebRTC, WebSockets (Agora/LiveKit/Twilio) Infrastructure : Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP Monitoring : OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana What We’re Looking For A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, early-stage environment. Someone who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty and is comfortable taking full ownership of critical features and systems. A problem solver who enjoys tackling hard technical challenges with creativity and an innovative mindset. A team player who collaborates effectively with non-technical teams and brings strong communication skills to ensure smooth product development. 5+ years building production applications with TypeScript Deep experience with real-time systems (WebRTC, WebSockets) PostgreSQL optimization & API design (REST/gRPC) Startup mentality: scrappy, self-driven, thrives with ownership Bonus: LMS integrations, enterprise authentication (SAML/LDAP), microservices What we don't want Meetings about meetings Fake “rockstar ninja” culture Pretending tech debt doesn’t exist Breaking production in the name of speed Why Join Us You’ll be one of the first engineers shaping the future of online collaboration. Your work will be used by Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Google, McKinsey, Mozilla, and thousands of global enterprises. If you want to build real-time systems at scale, create products that people actually use, and have a founder-level impact, we’d love to talk. Apply now or reach out directly to join the journey.
🌍 About SpatialChat SpatialChat is building the all-in-one platform for virtual interaction — think of it as a next-generation Zoom + Slack + community platform, but designed from the ground up for an AI-native world . With 6M+ users across 200+ countries and customers like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Google, McKinsey, Mozilla , and thousands of universities and Fortune 500 companies, we’re uniquely positioned to redefine how people teach, meet, and collaborate online. We’re now taking the next leap with AI for Video Communication : SpatialChat is creating the context layer for live video, a platform that provides rich, real-time data across communication, collaboration, and work processes, enabling AI agents to seamlessly navigate conversations, understand context, and act inside live meetings, classrooms, and events. This is a rare opportunity to join early and shape a platform that blends immersive video, real-time collaboration, and AI-powered context into one cohesive experience. 💡 Your Responsibilities Use a combination of data, research, market trends, and team instincts to articulate and socialize the strategy for your product lines. Define short- and long-term goals, and own the roadmap needed to reach them. Partner with design, engineering, and go-to-market teams to deliver projects from inception to experiment to fully launched products. Develop a strong operating model and processes to get things done efficiently based on project and team needs. Spend time with prospects, customers, and members to develop empathy for end-users and build an informed perspective on how to best address their needs. Think outside the box to solve problems with novel, creative solutions enabled by virtual offices and AI-powered video. Develop user personas, user stories, interaction flows, and navigation for new features. Work with designers and engineers to create wireframes/prototypes that are clear and actionable. Decide on product features and write specifications/PRDs documenting both functional and aesthetic aspects of what needs to be built. Analyze click flows and generate insights on user behavior patterns from data. Collaborate closely with developers, designers, and QA on building the “right product” by explaining specs, guiding user experience, reviewing deliverables, and conveying an exciting vision. Create meaningful experiments to test hypotheses, execute them, and share findings with recommended actions. Support Customer Support, Sales Enablement, and Product Marketing in the development of feature descriptions and new release content. Suggest product enhancements to improve user experience. Perform validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests. 🧰 Required Skills and Experience 3–5 years of experience in product management (including at least 2+ years in a PLG company). Proven ability to gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience, and drive growth. Experience working alongside engineers, designers, and customer-facing teams and shipping products at scale. Ability to be hands-on in the details while also zooming out to define the big picture. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical partners, internally and externally. Comfortable in ambiguous, dynamic environments typical of fast-growing startups. Excellent design sensibilities and technical literacy to develop strong relationships with design and engineering counterparts. Knowledge of databases and a good understanding of software development. Comfort with creating user stories (or applying the JTBD framework) and managing a backlog with tools like Slack, Jira, and Asana. Knowledge of Agile methodologies like SCRUM or Kanban. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to empathize with users. Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams. Understand SaaS business models, customer lifecycle management, and subscription-based revenue. Use data to interpret results, identify trends, and make well-reasoned, data-informed decisions. Work effectively with technical teams and explain technical trade-offs. Communicate clearly in writing and verbally across teams; bring education in a related field or equivalent experience (advanced study welcome, not required) Have experience with CRM integrations. Be Familiarized with marketing automation tools. 📝 In This Role, You Will Be a key player in shaping the product and technical direction. As a founding PM, your decisions will directly impact the success of the platform. Work closely with designers, engineers, and other PMs to rapidly develop features that are central to the user experience, with constant iteration and feedback loops. Lead the product vision and execution, ensuring that performance, scalability, and reliability are prioritized from day one. Translate complex technical possibilities (React, Node.js, TypeScript, REST APIs, NoSQL, WebSocket APIs) into clear roadmaps and user-facing features. Work on building secure, scalable systems in partnership with engineering to ensure a flawless experience for thousands of users. Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring we’re always building the “right” product. 🎯 Why Join Us Make an outsized impact: As a founding PM, your decisions will directly influence our product’s success and technical culture. Shape the future: Build a platform that powers hybrid classrooms, global events, remote workspaces, and vibrant communities. Cutting-edge challenges: Work at the intersection of live video, AI, and immersive collaboration with massive scale. Growth & ownership: Take full ownership of critical features and systems, with opportunities for leadership as we grow. AI-native culture: We’re embracing AI not just in our product but also in our processes — you’ll get to experiment with the latest tools and approaches. A supportive team: Work with curious, humble builders who share a bias for action and continuous learning.
About SpatialChat SpatialChat is redefining how people meet, teach, and work online — from world-class virtual events and hybrid classrooms to immersive offices and thriving communities. With 6M+ users across 200+ countries and customers like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Google, McKinsey, Mozilla and thousands of universities and Fortune 500 companies, we’re building the future of virtual interactions powered by AI. We’ve recently expanded our capabilities with community-driven tools and integrations (registration, LMS, payments, analytics, AI agents), putting us at the forefront of the next generation of live video and collaboration platforms. We’re now taking the next leap with AI for Video Communication: SpatialChat is creating the context layer for live video a platform that provides rich, real-time data across communication, collaboration, and work processes, enabling AI agents to seamlessly navigate conversations, understand context, and act inside live meetings, classrooms, and events. This is a rare chance to join the founding engineering team and leave your fingerprint on a product at the cutting edge of live video, AI, and community-driven experiences. What You’ll DoOwn the tech stack end-to-end: Architect, build, and scale the backend, frontend, and infrastructure powering live events, virtual offices, and interactive spaces. Optimize for scale: Design systems that support thousands of concurrent users per virtual space with smooth video/audio streaming and real-time interactions. Prototype fast and iterate: Build and test new features rapidly, balancing speed and quality to enable quick experimentation and shipping. Hands-on architecture: Create robust WebSocket APIs, improve reliability and scalability of our video systems (LiveKit, Dolby, Millicast, Agora), and implement a plugin architecture that allows third-party developers to extend the platform. Shape the product & culture: Collaborate closely with product, design, and leadership to define the technical vision, roadmap, and engineering practices from day one. Security & governance: Build privacy/governance engines to ensure no context is inadvertently leaked between teams or employees. AI superpowers: Prototype internal chatbots, workflow automation tools, and company-specific AI features that showcase the potential of well-structured knowledge systems . Mentor & inspire: Guide other engineers, help set coding standards, and evangelize creative approaches to AI-native applications. What You BringFull-stack expertise: 3+ years building and shipping systems in fast-paced environments; strong focus on Node.js, TypeScript, React, and modern web technologies. Real-time communication skills: Deep understanding of WebSockets, WebRTC, and real-time protocols for live video/audio interactions. Backend & infra chops: Hands-on experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB), cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and deploying scalable, reliable services. Streaming integrations: Familiarity with LiveKit, Millicast, Agora or similar media platforms to enhance video/audio performance. Startup mentality: Scrappy, self-motivated, and thrive where you’re responsible for solving complex problems with limited resources. AI & emerging tech: Proficiency with AI-native coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) and experience building AI systems (MCPs, Agents, LLM APIs). Collaboration mindset: Excellent communication skills; able to work cross-functionally with designers, PMs, and engineers. Creative problem solving: Comfort digging into ambiguous problem statements and delivering elegant, performant solutions. Preferred Skills GraphQL, feature flags, and trunk-based development. Microservices, Kubernetes, SOA, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Elasticsearch/Solr for search and indexing. Message queues like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS. Experience building internal tools for cross-functional organizations. In This Role, You Will: Be a key player in shaping the product and technical direction. As a founding engineer, your decisions will directly impact the success of the platform. Work closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to rapidly develop features that are central to the user experience, with constant iteration and feedback loops. Lead the technical vision and execution, ensuring that performance, scalability, and reliability are prioritized from day one. Create intuitive, interactive, and easy-to-use web applications using React, Node.js, TypeScript, and other modern frameworks. Build out the back-end architecture using REST-based services, NoSQL databases, and real-time WebSocket APIs. Work on building secure, scalable systems to ensure a flawless experience for thousands of users. Why Join Us Make an outsized impact: As a founding engineer, your decisions will directly influence our product’s success and technical culture. Shape the future: Build a platform that powers hybrid classrooms, global events, remote workspaces, and vibrant communities. Cutting-edge challenges: Work at the intersection of live video, AI, and immersive collaboration with massive scale. Growth & ownership: Take full ownership of critical features and systems, with opportunities for leadership as we grow. AI-native culture: We’re embracing AI not just in our product but also in our engineering processes you’ll get to experiment with the latest tools and approaches. A supportive team: Work with curious, humble builders who share a bias for action and continuous learning.
About SpatialChat SpatialChat is redefining how people meet, teach, and work online — from world-class virtual events and hybrid classrooms to immersive offices and thriving communities. With 6M+ users across 200+ countries and customers like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Google, McKinsey, Mozilla and thousands of universities and Fortune 500 companies, we’re building the future of virtual interactions powered by AI. We’ve recently expanded our capabilities with community-driven tools and integrations (registration, LMS, payments, analytics, AI agents), putting us at the forefront of the next generation of live video and collaboration platforms. We’re now taking the next leap with AI for Video Communication : SpatialChat is creating the context layer for live video a platform that provides rich, real-time data across communication, collaboration, and work processes, enabling AI agents to seamlessly navigate conversations, understand context, and act inside live meetings, classrooms, and events. This is a rare chance to join the founding engineering team and leave your fingerprint on a product at the cutting edge of live video, AI, and community-driven experiences. What You’ll Do Own the tech stack end-to-end: Architect, build, and scale the backend, frontend, and infrastructure powering live events, virtual offices, and interactive spaces. Optimize for scale: Design systems that support thousands of concurrent users per virtual space with smooth video/audio streaming and real-time interactions. Prototype fast and iterate: Build and test new features rapidly, balancing speed and quality to enable quick experimentation and shipping. Hands-on architecture: Create robust WebSocket APIs, improve reliability and scalability of our video systems (LiveKit, Dolby, Millicast, Agora), and implement a plugin architecture that allows third-party developers to extend the platform. Shape the product & culture: Collaborate closely with product, design, and leadership to define the technical vision, roadmap, and engineering practices from day one. Security & governance: Build privacy/governance engines to ensure no context is inadvertently leaked between teams or employees. AI superpowers: Prototype internal chatbots, workflow automation tools, and company-specific AI features that showcase the potential of well-structured knowledge systems . Mentor & inspire: Guide other engineers, help set coding standards, and evangelize creative approaches to AI-native applications. What You Bring Full-stack expertise: 3+ years building and shipping systems in fast-paced environments; strong focus on Node.js, TypeScript, React , and modern web technologies. Real-time communication skills: Deep understanding of WebSockets, WebRTC , and real-time protocols for live video/audio interactions. Backend & infra chops: Hands-on experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) , cloud platforms ( AWS/GCP/Azure ), and deploying scalable, reliable services. Streaming integrations: Familiarity with LiveKit, Millicast, Agora or similar media platforms to enhance video/audio performance. Startup mentality: Scrappy, self-motivated, and thrive where you’re responsible for solving complex problems with limited resources. AI & emerging tech: Proficiency with AI-native coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) and experience building AI systems (MCPs, Agents, LLM APIs). Collaboration mindset: Excellent communication skills; able to work cross-functionally with designers, PMs, and engineers. Creative problem solving: Comfort digging into ambiguous problem statements and delivering elegant, performant solutions. 🌟 Preferred Skills GraphQL, feature flags, and trunk-based development. Microservices, Kubernetes, SOA, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Elasticsearch/Solr for search and indexing. Message queues like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS. Experience building internal tools for cross-functional organizations. In This Role, You Will: Be a key player in shaping the product and technical direction. As a founding engineer, your decisions will directly impact the success of the platform. Work closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to rapidly develop features that are central to the user experience, with constant iteration and feedback loops. Lead the technical vision and execution, ensuring that performance, scalability, and reliability are prioritized from day one. Create intuitive, interactive, and easy-to-use web applications using React, Node.js, TypeScript, and other modern frameworks. Build out the back-end architecture using REST-based services, NoSQL databases, and real-time WebSocket APIs. Work on building secure, scalable systems to ensure a flawless experience for thousands of users. 🎯 Why Join Us Make an outsized impact: As a founding engineer, your decisions will directly influence our product’s success and technical culture. Shape the future: Build a platform that powers hybrid classrooms, global events, remote workspaces, and vibrant communities. Cutting-edge challenges: Work at the intersection of live video, AI, and immersive collaboration with massive scale. Growth & ownership: Take full ownership of critical features and systems, with opportunities for leadership as we grow. AI-native culture: We’re embracing AI not just in our product but also in our engineering processes you’ll get to experiment with the latest tools and approaches. A supportive team: Work with curious, humble builders who share a bias for action and continuous learning.
As a Founding Full Stack Engineer at SpatialChat, you will be at the core of building and scaling the platform from the ground up. Expect to own the entire tech stack including frontend, backend, and infrastructure. You will design real-time systems for video, audio, and multiplayer interactions, as well as build scalable features for thousands of concurrent users. Collaboration with a small, scrappy team is crucial in this high-impact role where you will shape the product, make decisions, and ensure fast shipping. Key Responsibilities: - Own the entire tech stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure) - Design real-time systems for video, audio, and multiplayer interactions - Build scalable features for thousands of concurrent users - Collaborate closely with a small, scrappy team Qualifications Required: - 5+ years building production applications with TypeScript - Deep experience with real-time systems (WebRTC, WebSockets) - PostgreSQL optimization & API design (REST/gRPC) - Startup mentality: scrappy, self-driven, thrives with ownership - Bonus: LMS integrations, enterprise authentication (SAML/LDAP), microservices At SpatialChat, you will work on: - Real-time spatial audio processing - WebRTC optimization for 1000+ concurrent users - Canvas LMS integration that doesn't break during finals week The company does not want: - Meetings about meetings - Fake rockstar ninja culture - Pretending tech debt doesn't exist - Breaking production in the name of speed If you are a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, early-stage environment, enjoys tackling hard technical challenges, and wants to have a significant impact on online collaboration, then SpatialChat is the place for you. Join the journey now and be part of shaping the future of online collaboration.,