We're Hiring: Deployed Agent Orchestrator
Company: Vulcan GovTech
Location: Austin, TX (In-Office)
Salary: $150,000 – $300,000
Equity: 0.2% – 0.8%
Experience: 2–5 Years
Type: Full-Time
Visa Sponsorship: No
🏛️ About Vulcan
Vulcan is a YC S25 GovTech/AI startup based in Austin, founded by Tanner Jones (previous GovTech exit, turned down Harvard Law), Chris Minge (ex-Google ML infrastructure for Gemini and Waymo), and Aleksander Mekhanik (Dartmouth dropout).
We're building an AI operating system for government, powered by a proprietary legal and regulatory database spanning 157 billion records. Our agents help governments draft regulations, automate permitting, and streamline operations.
We've raised a $10.9M seed** (co-led by General Catalyst and Cubit Capital) and recently secured another round at a **$300M valuation. We're already deployed across state agencies in Virginia, Texas, and California, and have achieved FedRAMP Ready status.
🎯 About the Role
We're hiring Deployed Agent Orchestrators (DAOs) to serve as our frontline operators. You'll embed with government agencies and enterprise customers to drive AI adoption, build solutions, and close deals.
This is a hybrid of founder and consultant. You'll travel extensively, work directly with senior government stakeholders, identify opportunities for AI automation, and build demos, agents, and workflows that solve real problems.
You'll have a company card, significant autonomy, and full ownership of your territory, relationships, deployments, and commercial outcomes.
📋 What You'll Own
Embed with government and enterprise customers to understand workflows, identify pain points, and drive AI adoption.
Build demos, prototypes, automations, and agentic workflows that accelerate deals and deployments.
Own customer activation, engagement, retention, and revenue across your accounts and jurisdictions.
Work directly with founders and engineers on discovery, technical sales, pilots, procurement, and expansion.
Translate customer feedback into product improvements, independently shipping solutions where possible.
Operate with extreme autonomy, owning your travel, customer relationships, and deal strategy.
🧠 What We're Looking For
We evaluate every candidate against three traits, with an exceptionally high bar for each:
Integrity – Uncompromising honesty, strong character, and sound judgment.
Intellectual Horsepower – Exceptional intelligence, curiosity, and deep reasoning.
Work Ethic – Extraordinary discipline, stamina, and startup intensity.
Ideal Profile:
Founder-caliber operator: Former founder, early startup employee, or someone with the ambition to build a company themselves.
Commercial and customer-facing: 1+ years in consulting, top-tier forward deployment, or similar high-ownership roles.
Exceptional charisma: Extroverted, persuasive, and energized by people.
High agency: Independently identifies opportunities and drives them to completion.
Technically curious: Comfortable using AI tools to build solutions. Coding experience is a strong advantage, not a requirement.
Competitive and mission-driven: Motivated by ambitious outcomes and modernizing government.
✅ Requirements
Exceptional integrity, IQ, and work ethic — top-percentile across all three.
Founder-caliber — ex-founder (ideally YC), ex-MBB, or exceptional entrepreneurial operator.
Magnetic communicator — wins over skeptical government leaders and executives.
Extreme intensity — genuinely embraces 996 and ~5 days/week travel.
