Digital workflow platform automating telecom procurement, inventory, and expense management
Lightyear operates a three-module platform (procurement, network inventory, expense management) for enterprise telecom sourcing and lifecycle operations. The hiring mix is heavily weighted toward sales (3 roles) and finance/ops (4 combined), with only 1 engineering opening across 10 active positions—suggesting the platform is mostly feature-complete and the company is prioritizing go-to-market execution and internal operational infrastructure. Active projects confirm this: outbound playbooks, sales enablement, revenue recognition, and tax foundations point to a sales-led company scaling its GTM and backend accounting systems.
Lightyear is a platform for managing the full telecom lifecycle at enterprises. The product spans three areas: a procurement module automating RFP creation and quoting for internet, WAN, voice, and colocation services; a network inventory manager that maintains a digital record with 30+ tracked data points per service and automates renewal and change workflows; and an expense management system providing visibility and automation across telecom billing from all carriers. The company is based in New York and was founded in 2019, currently operating at 51–200 employees. Hiring is active and US-based, with a current focus on scaling sales, operations, and finance.
Frontend built on React and Vue; backend on Django REST Framework and Node.js; data layer on PostgreSQL; infrastructure on AWS with Docker containerization. Excel and Google Sheets are also in active use.
Outbound acquisition playbooks, enterprise GTM strategy, sales enablement infrastructure, a revenue recognition engine, tax filing automation, cost savings opportunity identification, and scaling of telecom quoting and implementation processes.
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