01The gap
A founder, a student, or an independent inventor can describe what they made in a sentence. Getting that sentence into a patent or a trademark they can actually file is a different problem. The tools around them stop early. A search tells them something exists nearby. A template gives them blanks. A chatbot writes claims that have never met the invention, the drawings, or the classes. Each one is allowed to call itself help. None of them carries the idea the whole way: specification, figures, classes, and a filing a licensed attorney can review.
The loss is the invention that never gets filed, because no product was built to do the whole sequence. Arcangel closes that gap.
The work sits on the application itself. Halo reads what the person built, in plain language or from a GitHub repository, and drafts the filing. Novelty and clearance show what is already out there. A sketch, a photo, a PDF, or a 3D model becomes patent-style line drawings with reference labels. A licensed attorney, independent of Arcangel, reviews where the filing needs a human. Arcangel is not a law firm. The product is what puts a finished application in front of that attorney, and then in front of the USPTO.
The people using it are independent inventors, first-time founders, students, researchers, and the accelerators and companies that back them. A patent or a trademark is how someone with no legal department owns what they made. When the product works, the idea is on file.
02The engine
This is growth at the earliest stage. Nothing exists yet. You make it. We have a product the person with no legal department needs. Your job is to build the repeatable, measurable go-to-market machine that puts a real patent or trademark filing in front of them on purpose. This is a hands-on building role, not a management or brand-marketing one. You make things, you ship them, you measure them.
Research the segments until you understand each buyer, their triggers, and what they actually care about, then keep that picture sharp as we learn. An independent inventor, a first-time founder, a student, a researcher, an accelerator. You cannot move a person you do not understand.
Turn that understanding into words that make the right person stop: landing pages, outbound sequences, posts. Positioning sharp enough that they feel it was written for them, because it was.
Pair the right channels with the right messages into motions, run them end to end, and turn the ones that work into priced, repeatable playbooks with a cost and a conversion rate on each. That is the engine.
Stand up clean target lists, sequences, and per-segment landing pages on a modern growth stack: a CRM, outbound and enrichment tooling, LinkedIn, and heavy AI leverage throughout.
Run motions in parallel, track what actually moves a buyer toward a conversation, and kill what does not earn its keep. The number decides, not your gut.
Find the rooms these buyers are already in that the rest of the market overlooks, and make them ours.
You work shoulder to shoulder with us and own the growth engine end to end. You will be measured on one thing: pipeline and revenue that would not exist without you. Not activity, not meetings booked, not effort. What you actually moved.
03Who we are looking for
Builders own the outcome. Workers execute the task. We do not hire workers. You will work harder here than anywhere you have worked before, and you will be measured on outcome, on impact, and on what you shipped. We want someone driven to the edge of obsession. Nobody had to tell them to care. This is the bar.
You are building a company, not working at one. The thing is not done when your part is done. It is done when it works for the customer.
Your output has to be something people can trust without checking it twice. When you say something is done, it is done. Be the person nobody has to double-check.
Say what is true, when it matters, to the person who can act on it. We do not soften things here. The most useful thing you can do for someone is tell them the truth.
If something is broken and it is not technically your responsibility, it is still your problem until it is fixed. We are too small for “not my job,” and we will always be too small for that.
Move before you are asked. Identify the problem before it has a name. The best people here do not wait for a ticket. They see what needs to exist and they build it.
Work hard, compete hard, push hard, and be genuinely happy when the person next to you does something better than you could have. The market is outside. Inside this building we are one thing.
And be present. Be locked in. Chronic lateness, disappearing during the day, coasting, none of it is compatible with this place. Your team is counting on you to be locked in.
We have one standard: did you move the company forward today? If yes, you will be recognized and rewarded. If no, consistently, you will not last here. Every person who is not moving us forward is taking something from the people who are. That is the whole performance review, and it is the same one we hold ourselves to.
04No resume gate
This role is resume-blind. We do not care which logo sold which product, and we are not impressed by a quota banner. We care whether you can understand a hard buyer, build a motion that moves them, and prove it with numbers. That is the whole job, and it is rarer than a resume makes it look.
We decide on a real work sample. You pick a real Arcangel buyer and build a motion end to end, the same exercise for everyone. Paid. We look at how you think about the buyer, how sharp the angle is, and how far you push it. Show us you can build pipeline. That is the interview.
You read data, develop insights, and make decisions from evidence. You can put a cost and a conversion rate on a motion and defend both.
Experimentation, funnels, and metrics are how you think, not a thing you were trained to do once. You optimize toward the number that matters.
You can make a founder stop and pay attention in two sentences, and explain a filing to someone who has never filed without losing them.
You live in a modern growth stack, CRM, outbound, enrichment, LinkedIn, AI throughout, and you use it to move faster than a team would.
Bonus, not required: business-to-business sales, or any track record of building a go-to-market motion from nothing. None of it is a gate. The work sample is the gate.
05In person, in Chattanooga
This is an all-in, in-person, multi-year sprint in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Required. No remote, no hybrid. If that is a dealbreaker, this is an easy and honest no for both of us.
The point of being in the room is that the work gets your time. You are with the team, on the motion.
We are not going to print an hour count or a schedule, and we would be suspicious of any founder who did. The best builders do not sign up for a clock. They sign up for a mission and a bar, and then they volunteer everything the work requires, because they want it that badly. If you are at a stage of life where vacations matter to you, this is not the right place. If you read long hours, a small team, and high stakes and feel something tighten with excitement, you are the person we are writing to. Arcangel is not a job. It is a training arc.
06Non-negotiables
We currently work out of Brickyard. The role is in person in Chattanooga, with the team, the whole time.
You must already hold eligible work authorization in the United States. This is an in-person role and we are not in a position to sponsor at this stage.
We are intense, and we are honest about it. The bar on this page is how we actually work. If it makes you want to sprint, we should talk. If it makes you hesitate, this is not the right place.
07The deal
Most people spend their careers trading time for income. It ends when you own a piece of something that grows. You will be measured on what you moved, and in exchange you get base, commission, and equity, and you grow faster than you would anywhere else. There is no one between you and the customer.
You get equity when the company is worth $50 million. We are building this to a $5 billion IPO, and at that point your grant is worth 100 times what it was when you got it. You do not need to win the lottery. You need to be early at the right company and earn your place in it. Illustrative, not a guarantee of value. The offer letter and the grant documents control.
A real base that keeps you steady while you build the engine.
Uncapped, tied directly to what you bring in. The more pipeline turns into revenue, the more you make. No ceiling.
A founding grant with the upside above. The offer letter, the commission plan, and the grant documents control.
08How to apply
The growth motion or campaign you are proudest of. Not your resume. Who was the buyer, why should they have ignored you, and exactly what you built that changed that. Show us the numbers.
Pick a real Arcangel buyer and build a motion end to end: the target list, the positioning, the sequence, a landing page, and how you would measure it. The same exercise for everyone. Paid. We look at how you think about the buyer and how far you push it.
If your sample holds, you come to Chattanooga and build pipeline alongside us for a few days. The only honest way to know whether we should do this together is to actually do it. That trial is where this is decided.