Special
Special is a new kind of holding company. Our mission is to maximize the efficiency of American taxpayer dollars by transforming its critical industries with AI.
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Roles are read from Special’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Special hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Special has the 1276th most open roles of 2,934 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 5 open roles is 0.5× the average hiring startup (10.1).
- 40% of openings are in People, then Design (20%).
- Most roles are mid level (40%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 3, these openings would grow headcount by up to 167%.
- People pay here (median $135k) is 11% below the market median for People ($152k).
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- 100% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 60% of postings mention equity.
- 5 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 5 months old, against 2 months across the site.
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
- Special hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 5
- Roles added in 30 days
- 5
- Roles added in 90 days
- 5
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #1,276
- of 2,934 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 1.67
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 5
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 2
- 40% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 5 months
- Oldest: 5 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $135k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $135k–$225k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 100%
- 5 of 5
- Mention equity
- 60%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
Breakdowns
5
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1People240%
- 2Design120%
- 3Engineering120%
- 4Other120%
- 1Mid level240%
- 2Senior240%
- 3Executive120%
- 1Onsite480%
- 2Not stated120%
- 1New York480%
- 2Nashville120%
- 1Full-time5100%
- 1Operations240%
- 2Design120%
- 3Engineering120%
- 4M&A120%
$110kLow$135k25th$135kMedian$225k75th$300kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Special role.