Staff Product Engineer, Growth (100% remote)

vidIQ; Canada; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a hands-on Product Engineer to enhance user experiences for YouTube creators. In this role, you'll leverage your technical expertise in TypeScript to design personalized onboarding experiences that drive user activation and retention. You'll be at the forefront of growth initiatives, utilizing data-driven insights and AI technologies to optimize user journeys and conversion funnels. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a data-rich environment while enjoying the flexibility of remote work and unlimited time off. If you're passionate about creating exceptional user experiences, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Comprehensive health insurance

Unlimited time off

Monthly phone and internet reimbursement

100% global remote work

Qualifications

• Experience in designing onboarding experiences that improve user activation.
• Strong knowledge of conversion funnels and user journey optimization.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize user onboarding flows to enhance activation.
• Conduct user testing and analyze conversion funnels for improvements.

Skills

TypeScript

User Journey Optimization

A/B Testing

Data Analysis

User Psychology

Job description

About vidIQ

vidIQ helps YouTube creators grow with data-driven insights and tools—reaching millions of users. Our mission is to be a smart copilot for creators, and we're looking for a hands-on Product Engineer who can blend product management and engineering to drive user acquisition, activation, and retention through exceptional experiences for customers.

Your Impact

As a Product Engineer, you'll focus on building and optimizing the experience of vidIQ users in the first 30 minutes after signing up. You’ll work on improving user journeys that drive activation, and retention. You'll own the complete growth cycle - from first touch to engaged creator. For example, you might:

• Design and implement a personalized onboarding flow that highlights different features based on creator size and goals

• Scope and test user education components that guide creators through their first key actions, dramatically improving time-to-value.

• Create and measure growth experiments across the user journey to systematically improve conversion at each step.

You'll directly build and iterate on growth features using AI technologies, conduct user testing on onboarding flows, analyze conversion funnels, and rapidly ship improvements—turning more visitors into power users.

You'll directly contribute to these core metrics:

• X% increase in free-to-paid conversions

• Y% increase in day 1 retention

What We're Looking For

1. Growth obsessed: You're obsessed with conversion funnels, user journeys, and the psychology of product activation. You've ideated and shipped roadmaps in the past that improved activation and retention.

2. Technical Expertise: You can ship complete frontend (TypeScript) changes to onboarding on your own with little to no additional engineering support.

3. Data-Driven Experimenter: You can ideate on the best A/B test metrics, design clean experiments, and extract learnings from results to compound product success

4. User Psychology: You understand that exceptional onboarding is about creating "aha" moments that demonstrate product value quickly and effectively.

5. Creator Empathy: You genuinely understand the YouTube creator journey and can design onboarding experiences that speak directly to creators' goals and pain points.

Why vidIQ

• Growth Impact: Directly influence our company's growth curve by designing and building onboarding experiences that convert and retain users.

• Data-Rich Environment: Access comprehensive analytics on user behavior to inform your growth experiments and measure your impact.

• AI-Powered Growth Tools: Leverage cutting-edge AI to personalize onboarding journeys and automate user education.

• Remote & Flexible: Enjoy full flexibility to collaborate and contribute from anywhere, supported by unlimited time-off policies.

• Visible Results: See the direct impact of your work through improved conversion metrics and user activation rates.

Additional Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (for US employees)

• Unlimited time off

• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement

• 100% global remote

If you're passionate about building, adept at leveraging AI, and eager to deliver tangible products at scale—we want to hear from you. Tell us about the impactful products you've built, your experiences at hackathons or startups, or any AI-powered solutions you've engineered, and help us shape the future for millions of creators.