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Read ArticleWhere classical
ambition meets
venture-grade
talent.
Rounds × The Residency. A curated talent partnership connecting exceptional engineers, designers and operators with the most ambitious early-stage portcos in the Residency network.
The process
A quieter way
to find your next chapter.
No spray-and-pray applications. No noisy job boards. Three steps, hand-curated by the Rounds team and The Residency partners — built for talent who'd rather be discovered than searched.
Build your profile in under 10 minutes.
Tell us where you've been, what you're great at, and the kind of company that would actually pull you back into the office. Optional: links to anything you're proud of.
We match you with 3–5 portcos that fit.
Our team reviews your profile against active roles in the Residency network and surfaces only the founders we genuinely think you'd want to work with. No bulk lists.
Founder intros within a week.
You meet the founders directly — no recruiters in the middle, no twelve-round process. If there's a fit, you move fast. If not, we keep you in the network for the next round.
The portfolio
A small sample of who's hiring.
The Residency portfolio spans frontier AI, fintech, dev tools, and consumer. Below: a snapshot of currently active mandates. Roles refresh weekly.
For both sides
Two doors. Same room.
You've outgrown the job board.
- Hand-picked introductions to founders building things you'd actually want to ship.
- Compensation visibility upfront — equity, salary, expectations, no games.
- One profile, one conversation, then meaningful intros. We don't ghost.
- Stay in the network. Roles you didn't take this round may surface again later.
You need five, not five hundred.
- Every candidate is pre-screened by Rounds and warm-introed.
- Roles go live in 24 hours. Most clients see qualified intros within the first week.
- A discounted partnership rate for active Residency portcos.
- Bring your hardest searches — founding engineers, design leads, GTM #1s.
Begin your residency.
Whether you're hiring the next hire that changes your trajectory, or looking for the team that finally feels worth the leap — start here.