Uplane

Replace marketing agencies with AI

Business Development Associate

$90K - $100K0.10% - 0.20%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Operations
Experience
1+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Marvin Abdel-Massih
Marvin Abdel-Massih
Founder

About the role

About Uplane (YC F25)

Companies waste billions on bad ads, mismatched landing pages, and poor budget allocation. Uplane fixes this by replacing a patchwork of agencies, spreadsheets, and siloed tools with one self-improving AI system. It creates ads, builds matching landing pages, allocates budgets across different channels, and more. We are building the AI engine that will manage and spend the world's marketing budget.

About The Role

We're seeking a highly skilled and proactive Business Development Associate to join our team full-time, on-site in San Francisco. In this role, you will work with the founders to drive growth, execute go-to-market initiatives, and build the commercial foundation of Uplane.

Why Join

  • Be one of the first employees at a well-funded startup
  • Solve a massive problem in a massive market
  • Take ownership and grow quickly
  • Culture: fast-moving, ambitious, fun, humble

Responsibilities

  • Growth & Go-to-Market: Build and execute inbound and outbound B2B sales motions, run structured growth experiments, and actively contribute to closing new customers.
  • Founder Support & Strategic Execution: Work closely with the founders on strategic initiatives, high-priority projects, and ad-hoc analyses critical to company growth.
  • Internal Processes & Scaling: Support topics across hiring, finance and legal to ensure smooth day-to-day execution and scalability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (business or engineering).
  • Exceptional achievements during and beyond academic studies.
  • Minimum of 1 year full-time experience in an early-stage startup or another fast-paced environment.
  • Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco; on-site presence required; work permit for USA required.

Nice to Have

  • Prior exposure to process automation, workflow orchestration, or the design of scalable processes.
  • Experience with or strong familiarity with inbound and/or outbound sales processes.
  • Previous touchpoints with marketing or AdTech.

About Uplane

The future of marketing will be nothing like the past.

Performance marketing is a race to discover the creative angles, visuals, and messages that entertain, engage, and convert audiences before the competition does. Until now, that’s been a manual, messy, and painfully slow process.

We’re changing that. Uplane builds an AI autopilot for advertising. Our intelligent system generates, tests, and optimizes campaigns end-to-end, faster than any human team could dream of. From concept to creative to targeting to scaling, everything happens automatically, driven by real performance data.

This isn’t just another marketing tool. It’s the future of advertising where brands and creators focus on the vision, and AI takes care of winning the market.

If you want to shape the future and change how the world does marketing, you’ll fit right in.

Uplane
Founded:2025
Batch:F25
Team Size:7
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Marvin Abdel-Massih
Marvin Abdel-Massih
Founder
Julius Körfgen
Julius Körfgen
Co-Founder & CEO
Lukas Vollmer
Lukas Vollmer
Founder