Kevin Rose

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Founder & CEO at Tandem Commerce · SaaS, HR tech

Tandem Commerce
Minneapolis, MN · CT (UTC-6)
13+ years experience
University of Wisconsin–Madison
English, French
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Tandem Commerce, working on HR software. Grew the team to 51 people across 2 countries. Took Tandem Commerce from zero to $7 million ARR. Most at home with SaaS and HR tech. Marathoner (12 so far).

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
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Skills
SaaSconsumer fintechpayrollsalesHR tech
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $4M Series A for field-service scheduling for gig workers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$4M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$504k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
19% month-on-month growth after 18 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

19% month-on-month growth after 18 months. Looking for investors who know gaming and can help with enterprise sales.

Minneapolis, MN · remote OKhr techsalesconsumer fintech
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Tandem Commerce is hiring 2 founding engineers in Minneapolis

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$146k-$189k
Team
Founding team, 4 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with payroll Production experience with HR tech Comfort with ambiguity
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $179k-$320k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Minneapolis, MN · remote OKsalesconsumer fintechsaas
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Tandem Commerce · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Raised $24 million across 2 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 58 people across 3 countries.
  2. Data Engineer
    Apr 2021 - Apr 2024
    Apple · 3 yr · Contract · Minneapolis, MN
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Ran 63 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
  3. Engineering Manager
    May 2018 - Feb 2021
    Airbnb · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the consumer fintech service that now handles 73 million requests a day.
  4. Software Engineer
    Aug 2016 - May 2018
    HubSpot · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Shipped 18 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the sales service that now handles 79 million requests a day.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2013 - Aug 2016
    Quayside Consulting · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.

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Education

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison
    BS, Business Administration
    2008 - 2012

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