Promise
Better payment systems for governments and the communities they serve.
12 open roles
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Roles are read from Promise’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Promise hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Promise has the 617th most open roles of 2,932 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 12 open roles is 0.8× the average Series B startup here (14.1).
- 33% of openings are in Engineering, then Data (17%).
- Most roles are mid level (83%). 1 role suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 80, these openings would grow headcount by up to 15%.
- Median posted pay of $180k is in line with the Series B startup median ($180k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $191k) is 5% above the market median for Engineering ($183k).
- 100% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 75% of postings mention equity.
- 12 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 2 months old, against 2 months across the site.
- Founded 9 years ago, in Y Combinator’s Winter 2018 batch.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
Momentum, explained
- Promise hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 12
- Roles added in 30 days
- 12
- Roles added in 90 days
- 12
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #617
- of 2,932 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.15
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 12
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 1
- 8% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 3
- 25% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 2 months
- Oldest: 8 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $180k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $140k–$198k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 100%
- 12 of 12
- Mention equity
- 75%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 1
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
- 1 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
12
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Mid level1083%
- 2Executive18%
- 3Graduate / entry18%
- 1Hybrid867%
- 2Not stated217%
- 3Onsite217%
- 1San Francisco758%
- 2Washington433%
- 3Fairfield18%
- 1Full-time12100%
- 1Engineering325%
- 2Data & Operations217%
- 3Legal217%
- 4Sales217%
- 5Client Success (Call Center)18%
- 6IT/Sec18%
- 7OCEO18%
$52kLow$140k25th$180kMedian$198k75th$260kHigh
$130kLow$130k25th$180kMedian$228k75th$228kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Promise role.