Meet the team
At Roadrunner, we are rebuilding Quote-to-Cash, starting with an AI-native CPQ. Our ambition is to put revenue back in motion, and we’re starting by giving every Account Executive the ability to structure any deal instantly, just like the best rep in the company.
Roadrunner is the first Kleiner Perkins incubation since Glean, now valued at $7.2B.
Our seed round is led by Mamoon Hamid, and our CEO, Joubin Mirzadegan, brings deep, long-standing relationships with the enterprise buyers we’re building for. We’ve co-developed the product with paying design partners and have a seemingly endless customer waitlist.
We’ve assembled a world-class technical team from Robinhood, Citadel, Snowflake, Databricks, and NASA. See us all in the hot seat below!
Joubin Mirzadegan
Joubin is CEO of Roadrunner and a Partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he leads the portfolio operating team, helping founders scale history-making companies. Before Kleiner Perkins, Joubin built and led multiple sales organizations through successful acquisitions. He is also the creator and host of Grit, a top 1% podcast worldwide.
Ajay Natarajan
Ajay began his undergrad at Caltech at age 16 and concurrently served as a software engineer for NASA, where he built the software that is now used to help guide the Mars Rover. He graduated #2 in his class and was the first person to do a double major in CS and Economics with a minor in Data Science. After graduation, he was a software engineer and tech lead on Robinhood’s crypto team. He then founded his first startup, Athena, an AI platform which helped over 2% of all U.S. college-bound students optimize their college applications.
Eugene Shao
Eugene co-founded Athena with Ajay, and was responsible for scaling the engineering architecture to serve tens of thousands of concurrent users. Before that, he developed high-throughput systems at Citadel and Meta, built software that is currently on the International Space Station, and was ranked top 11 in the U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad.
Visv Shah
Visv is Roadrunner's first employee. Before Roadrunner, Visv spent time at Databricks, Snowflake, and Bloomberg. He studied computer science at Purdue and is a Kleiner Perkins Fellow, gravitating toward zero-to-one product problems. Visv was crazy enough to leave school and join us on this ambitious mission.
Julen Lujambio
Julen unites deep customer obsession with design vision and sharp product judgment. He previously spent over two years at Atlassian in PM roles, and began his career gaining cross-functional experience at Meta, BCG, and Caltech. A Caltech CS graduate and former varsity cross-country and track captain, Julen has a long track record of leadership, from collegiate athletics to high school valedictorian, and brings a user-obsessed, analytical approach to product building.
Ellie Lupo
Ellie previously spent seven years at Grammarly, where she helped scale the company from ~120 to ~1,200 employees and built high-impact recruiting, systems and program operations across multiple functions. A Cal Poly graduate in Political Science, Ellie brings deep expertise in cross-functional execution, organizational design, and people infrastructure, making her the connective tissue that keeps Roadrunner running smoothly as it grows.
Irene Guo
Before Roadrunner, Irene was the sole product designer at Open Raven (now acquired by Intellistack). A UC San Diego graduate in Cognitive Science (Design & Interaction), Irene brings a rare blend of systems thinking, user empathy, and executional rigor honed through work in civic tech, healthcare research, and early-stage startups.
Join the team
At Roadrunner, we’re not limited by customer demand - we’re limited by engineering capacity. Our paid design partners are pulling a roadmap out of us faster than we can build it, and we’re looking for exceptional engineers to join us for the next phase of growth.
Software Engineer
Role
As a Software Engineer at Roadrunner, you’ll work across our core systems to ship a delightful and fast product experience for our users.
Sample projects include:
- Sprinting for two weeks to build a new feature from scratch, iterating closely with AEs.
- Developing proactive AI Agents to help AEs with quoting and complex deal modeling.
- Building efficient workflow engines to power quoting and approval flows for multibillion dollar companies with millisecond-level response times.
You might be a fit if:
- You’ve built a great product.
- You have strong engineering fundamentals, code efficiently, and understand the tradeoffs of when to focus on coding speed vs. quality.
- You enjoy work the most when you have full autonomy over a workstream and are motivated when you’re surrounded by talented engineers also shipping quickly.
- You’re in SF / willing to relocate to SF, love working in-person, and care about shaping the culture of the team as we grow.
Why Roadrunner
Roadrunner is Kleiner Perkins’ first incubation since Glean and fourth incubation ever.
- Leadership: Led by second-time founders with successful exits, backed by a fully de-risked go-to-market motion with unfair access to every customer we could want.
- Traction: 3 paying design partners, 10+ more on a waiting list.
- Engineering Excellence: strong engineers from Snowflake, Databricks, Citadel, Meta, Robinhood, Brex, CloudTrucks, and Atlassian.
- Two-thirds of the company are Kleiner Perkins Fellows alumni.
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Forward Deployed Engineer
Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Roadrunner, you will be the bridge between our product and our enterprise customers. You will design, build, and roll out mission-critical integrations, ensure smooth deployments, and translate real-world feedback into product-level improvements.
Sample projects include:
- Working with enterprise customers to build custom integrations into their CRM.
- Shipping real features to make future customer deployments even smoother.
- Translating messy real-world configuration rules into clean, structured abstractions.
- Partnering directly with the founding team to shape the end-to-end customer experience.
You might be a fit if:
- You love working hands on with customers and diving deep into their stack is energizing.
- You can ramp up in new environments quickly.
- You have a CS degree, past CPQ experience, or have past experience as a software engineer and want an extremely customer-facing role.
- You excel when moving between high-level systems thinking, integration planning, debugging, and customer interaction.
- You can quickly and clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You have past experience deploying or integrating enterprise software (e.g. Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, Zuora).
- You’re in SF / willing to relocate to SF, love working in-person, and care about shaping the culture of the team as we grow.
Why Roadrunner
Roadrunner is Kleiner Perkins’ first incubation since Glean and fourth incubation ever.
- Leadership: Led by second-time founders with successful exits, backed by a fully de-risked go-to-market motion with unfair access to every customer we could want.
- Traction: 3 paying design partners, 10+ more on a waiting list.
- Engineering Excellence: strong engineers from Snowflake, Databricks, Citadel, Meta, Robinhood, Brex, CloudTrucks, and Atlassian.
- Two-thirds of the company are Kleiner Perkins Fellows alumni.
Scroll to the bottom of this page to apply.
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