The 9/8 GTM Engineering roundup: Hiring Top 1% GTM Engineers, Another LinkedIn Ban, & GTM Engineer @ Doordash

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Here’s the 9/8 content roundup of our favorite posts and open roles over the last week.

This week, I’m helping run 2 sessions on maven.com that have a combined >2K registrants as part of their GTM Engineering Lightning Lesson Series supported by Clay and the gtm engineer.

1. [Today, Sept 8th] Finding & Evaluating 1% GTM Engineers - a panel I’m moderating with Davide Grieco (Head of Growth at Clay), Alex Fine (Co-founder at Understory) and Ilija Stojkovski (CRO at HeyReach)

2. [Fri, Sept 12th] Intent Signals 101 (running this one, just me)

Should be some useful content if you want to tune in, or register to grab the recording links!

Otherwise, some more good content this week about the Salesloft/Clari merger, hiring top growth people, and more below!

As always, shoot me an email if you have any ideas or feedback about content, or if I missed anything big!

Favorite resources from the week:

• Amplemarket (sales & automation platform) was kicked off of LinkedIn this past week. Jack Porter, Co-founder at Bird Dog summarized what happened + his view on implications

• Gaurav Vohra (Former Head of Product & Growth at Superhuman) wrote a detailed guide on hiring top growth people that has a number of GTM Engineer corollaries

• Kyle Poyar wrote a guide to a mini-MBA on Mastering AI for GTM

• Mark Kosoglow (former SVP of Global Sales at Outreach), gave the best readout I’ve seen on the Salesloft + Clari merger and what it means for Outreach, Gong, and the new merged company

• Shivani Virdi (SWE @ Microsoft) shared 20+ resources to go from 0 to building agentic systems in 90 days

• I interviewed Anshul Gupta, Co-founder at Actively about account prioritization, GTM superintelligence and more

Favorite GTM engineering roles from the week:

• Doordash - GTM Engineer, Sales Analytics (Remote, US)

• Intercom (AI chat & customer service) - Senior GTM Engineer (SF)

• HackerRank (SWE upskilling platform w/ >$100M raised) - GTM Engineer - Demand Generation (Remote, US)

• Arda (inventory & order management platform) - GTM Engineer (Seattle)

• AppSignal (>$20M raised, building tools for developers) - GTM Engineer (Austin, TX)

Notes:

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