New Business Lead
About the job
- Have 1 to 3 years of experience in sales, business development, or a high-volume outbound role.
- Meet activity targets and enjoy outbound prospecting.
- Be coachable and competitive, and be energized by working in a fast-paced environment.
- Be interested in earning equity and making an impact rather than following a predetermined career ladder.
- Partner with leadership to experiment with new channels, messaging, and go-to-market plays.
- Own outbound prospecting to staffing and recruiting firms, from initial research through booking qualified meetings.
- Build and refine target account lists, identifying the right companies and people within them.
- Craft personalized outreach that addresses pain points in technical hiring.
- Help define the company’s go-to-market approach through input on messaging, targeting, and process.
About the company
Ropes.ai offers an AI-driven platform for skills-based hiring focused on technical talent. Its core product is an asynchronous coding assessment that can be tailored to a client’s job description and tech stack, and it evaluates the entire problem-solving process—from approach to debugging—not just the final solution, with dynamic difficulty and anti-cheating measures. The platform delivers detailed scorecards and integrates with applicant tracking systems to fit into existing hiring workflows, setting itself apart with holistic evaluations and real-world simulations. The company aims to bridge the gap between technical evaluation and on-the-job performance and to expand into new domains like nursing, design, and finance.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$3.1M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2023
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Ropes said 39% of assessed candidates showed fraud signals in 2026.
- Swoon and Mitchell Martin posted higher placement ratios after deploying Ropes in 2025.
- Ken Schumacher said 2024 brought enterprise deals and strong revenue growth, signaling traction.
What critics are saying
- Ropes serves a narrow technical hiring niche, limiting expansion outside recruiting budgets.
- AI screening rivals and ATS vendors can copy assessments, compressing pricing by 2027.
- False positives in fraud scoring damage candidate experience and trigger customer churn.
What makes Ropes unique
- Ropes combines role-specific coding simulations with fraud detection across the candidate funnel.
- Its Greenhouse integration embeds assessments directly inside recruiter workflows, reducing tool switching.
- The 2026 Fraud Report spans 62 countries and 1,000+ requisitions, sharpening its data moat.
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15%Ropes, the AI-driven platform transforming how engineering talent is evaluated, announced today it has raised $3.1M in seed funding.
Ropes, an AI-driven platform for evaluating engineering talent, has raised $3.1M in seed funding led by GSV Ventures, with Box Group participating. The funding will help Ropes enhance skills-based hiring by offering asynchronous, role-specific assessments that simulate real-world tasks. This approach aims to overcome the limitations of traditional tests and interviews, providing a more accurate measure of technical abilities in the AI era.