Founding Growth

Simplify; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplify is hiring a founding growth teammate to work directly with the founders and own how people discover, try and pay for Simplify, across lifecycle, content, SEO, paid and partnerships.

This is not a channel-manager role. You’ll write and ship the work yourself, measure what it actually did, and decide what to test next.

Qualifications

• You can work in person from our SF FiDi office and start within ~30 days.
• You’ve taken an idea to real traction at a startup or on your own, and can explain the decisions you made and results you owned.
• You can make a product compelling through clear, engaging writing, with examples that helped people understand its value and take action.
• You’ve built AI workflows that substantially improve your output, and can explain where they fail and how you maintain quality.

Responsibilities

• Improve activation, retention and paid conversion through lifecycle emails, landing pages, onboarding and product messaging.
• Build organic acquisition through SEO/GEO and LinkedIn, finding topics and formats that turn attention into product usage.
• Own paid acquisition: develop creative, test audiences and offers, manage budgets and scale campaigns when the results justify it.
• Build a UGC creator program, from recruiting and outreach to briefs, content delivery and performance feedback.
• Grow affiliates into a repeatable acquisition channel through partner recruitment, onboarding and tracking results through to paying customers.
• Own growth measurement and decide what to test next, combining funnel analysis and user research with experiments shipped alongside engineering and design.

Skills

Growth strategy

Lifecycle marketing

SEO

Paid acquisition

Content writing

Experimentation

Analytics

Partnerships

Job description

About the role

We’re hiring a founding growth teammate to work directly with the founders and own how people discover, try and pay for Simplify, across lifecycle, content, SEO, paid and partnerships.

This is not a channel-manager role. You’ll write and ship the work yourself, measure what it actually did, and decide what to test next.

About Simplify

Simplify is building the AI-enabled infrastructure to power the next generation of hiring — reimagining how people discover and secure their next career opportunity. We believe that everyone deserves an all-star talent agent helping them plan, manage, and accomplish their career goals, no matter their background, location, or education.

Through our flagship product, Copilot, we’ve helped over 1M+ job seekers discover and apply to over 100 million jobs – and we’ve done this with a tight-knit team of just 7 people. We’re rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts, focused on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career.

Backed by top-tier investors including Craft and YCombinator, we’re a mission-driven team working to democratize the job search and disrupt the way hiring works today.

What you’ll work on

• Improve activation, retention and paid conversion through lifecycle emails, landing pages, onboarding and product messaging. Create demos and launch content that show users what’s new and how to get started.
• Build organic acquisition through SEO/GEO and LinkedIn, finding topics and formats that turn attention into product usage.
• Own paid acquisition: develop creative, test audiences and offers, manage budgets and scale campaigns when the results justify it.
• Build a UGC creator program, from recruiting and outreach to briefs, content delivery and performance feedback.
• Grow affiliates into a repeatable acquisition channel through partner recruitment, onboarding and tracking results through to paying customers.
• Own growth measurement and decide what to test next, combining funnel analysis and user research with experiments shipped alongside engineering and design.

What we look for

• You can work in person from our SF FiDi office and start within ~30 days.
• You’ve taken an idea to real traction at a startup or on your own, and can explain the decisions you made and results you owned.
• You can make a product compelling through clear, engaging writing, with examples that helped people understand its value and take action.
• You’ve built AI workflows that substantially improve your output, and can explain where they fail and how you maintain quality.
• You can follow user cohorts through conversion and retention, evaluate acquisition costs and distinguish a promising experiment from a misleading result.

Nice to have

• Experience growing consumer subscriptions, freemium products or marketplaces.
• Ability to design creative or shoot and edit short-form video yourself.

Why join

• Founding-team scope. You’ll be one of the first eight people, working side by side with the founders and owning growth across every channel, not a narrow slice of it.
• Real distribution to build on. Over 1M job seekers already use Copilot, so your experiments get real signal fast and your wins show up in revenue.
• Breadth fast. Lifecycle, SEO/GEO, paid, creators, affiliates and analytics in one role. You’ll learn more in a year than most people do in three.
• AI as the default. We expect you to use AI to multiply your output, and you’ll have the room to build the content and analytics workflows the rest of the company runs on.
• A mission worth the effort. We’re making the job search fairer for people regardless of background, location or education.