Meet high quality, high intent candidates
Connect with top talent before they hit the open market

Next Play candidates come from the top companies in tech
Connect with top talent
Access
Get our private database filled with people who are actively open to new opportunities. Filter by role, location, background, and more.
Promotion
Share your roles with our private network of 60k+ operators & engineers.
Curation
See our favorites as we manually sift through our database and highlight the most promising candidates.
Meet candidates before anyone else
People join Next Play and anonymously look for jobs (before you would be able to tell from their Linkedin). Message candidates directly using the platform which increases response rates.
Get started in under 5 minutes
“Within 2 weeks of signing up for next play, we connected with a great software engineer and hired him the next week!”
Ethan Yu, co-founder, Motion
“Within a month of being featured on next play, we hired an exceptionally talented person who reached out to us directly!”
Jishai Evers, co-founder, Archetype Labs
“The level of talent on NextPlay is insane 🤯This is such a cool and special thing you are building.”
Dani Grant, founder, Jam
Examples of people in next play
- Second time founder who sold their previous company and exploring starting a new company
- VP growth at FAANG company thinking about joining an early stage startup
- Engineering leader from Series C company looking to join a new company or potentially start a company
- + many others from places like Stripe, OpenAI, Notion, Retool, Y Combinator, Rippling, Silver Lake, Sequoia, SpaceX, Figma, Replit, Nasa, Coinbase, Airbnb, Instacart, and more.
Pricing
Free
Get a feel for Next Play.
- Share up to 3 job postings per month. Postings are shared with our community in the jobs feed
- Receive a weekly sample of some of our favorite, “staff-picked” candidates
Standard
For individuals like founders and recruiters looking to meet quality candidates.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited job postings
- Share 1 featured job posting per month, which is highlighted in the feed and also sent directly via email to 60k+ people
- Access the candidate database, which includes thousands of people actively looking for new opportunities
- Use advanced filters to find specific roles (engineering, operations, etc.), experience levels, locations, and more
- Message candidates directly on the platform, which will increase your response rates
Pro
For teams who want to scale.
- Everything in Standard
- 3 featured job postings a month
- View anonymous profiles, so you can reach out to candidates secretly open to new opportunities before anyone else.
- Unlimited seats, so you can invite your whole team.