Founding Growth Intern

String; New York (NY); On-site; USD 15,000 - 35,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in Chelsea

Mentorship

AI tools access

Job summary

String is seeking a growth-focused intern in NYC to help build our go-to-market engine from scratch. You will blend sales and marketing, getting our products in front of more companies, from solo developers to enterprise clients. This in-person, part-time role reports to the Chief of Staff and offers commission-based compensation.

You’ll own hands-on activities, write content, create videos, post on social, and help automate outreach. A unicorn candidate may earn a full-time role later.

Qualifications

• Top 1% in ambition, creativity, and hustle.
• In-person NYC internship with part-time schedule.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Get our products in front of as many companies as possible.
• Write and ship posts from LinkedIn and X accounts.
• Record demo clips of our products and share insights.
• Meet with engineers to explore custom scraping solutions.
• Help build the growth playbook and execute experiments.

Skills

Sales & Marketing

Content creation

Writing

Video production

Tools

AI tools

Job description

- Compensation: Commission / bounty based

- Reports To: Chief of Staff (Bruce)

- Location: NYC in-person part-time during the week

Overview

Howdy! Bruce here - Chief of Staff at String. If you're a young person who is top 1% in ambition, creativity, and hustle and wants to help us build our revenue engine from scratch, I want you to come work for us this semester.

This role will allow you to gain real ownership of our go-to-market motion

You will combine both sales and marketing, focusing on getting our products in front of as many companies as possible.

We're building the most comprehensive platform to collect and structure web data

and we need to get it in front of as many people as possible.

We've hit seven figures in ARR

doubling this year. We sell to everyone, from individual devs I met on X to some of the most powerful financial institutions on the planet. We've done it all with a lean team of < 10, and only one unannounced seed round.

The Web Access API is our newest product

launched in July, and we have already signed multiple enterprise customers. We have not churned a single one, our conversion rate from trial > signing is 100% so far. We need to get it in front of as many companies as possible.

I need you.

You’ll work directly with me, our CEO Rohit, and the Founding GTM hire to build out our growth engine from scratch. If you kill it, you’ll have a full-time role available for you.

If I was a kiddo again, this would be exactly the kind of job that I would want. If you are our unicorn candidate, we will craft this internship to be the best experience possible for you and we’ll crush it together. It will be challenging, rewarding, and a blast.

What do we do?

Today, if you want to collect web data, you have to jump through a ton of hoops:

1. Build infrastructure to send thousands of requests to websites
2. Build technology to avoid getting detected as a bot (incredibly difficult at scale)
3. Code individual scripts for every website you want to scrape
4. Fix all those scripts as websites change
5. Ensure consistent data quality across runs

We solve all of these problems for firms so that they never have to worry about their web data pipelines. Thus, we 1) significantly improve their end-products, driving millions in revenue and 2) save them hundreds of thousands of dollars in engineering costs.

Our end customers use our product to:

1. Make better decisions. E.g., "How much is Lululemon discounting their products currently? Therefore, should I buy their stock?"
2. Fundamentally support their core products. E.g., "I'm an AI legal tech company and need to scrape tons of legal codes across state & local government websites."

Building this would have been impossible before the AI revolution. We have a unique opportunity to build the first platform where anyone can collect structured data across any website with just a prompt. Right now, we’re working constantly to make that happen.

What will you do?

1. Act.

Get our products in front of as many people as possible. I have TONS of ideas on how to do this and need a partner-in-crime whose APM (actions-per-minute) is shockingly high. You and I may…

• Run around the city together hand-delivering gifts to our dream customers
• Spend a night writing letters to ship to companies in SF
• Write and ship posts from our LinkedIn and X accounts
• Record demo clips of our products
• Meet with our engineers to build a custom scraping solution
• Post on TikTok / YouTube about what you're learning on the job
• Find us the companies who need our product now
• Pitch YouTubers on our product so that they feature us
• Send 1,000 outbound emails
• Go to bars close to our customers' HQs and talk to potential targets

Could be any of the above! We have strategy and need horsepower to multiply our execution.

2. Strategize.

Help us build the growth playbook from scratch. To the above point, we have ideas, and a playbook, but I'm looking for someone who's interested in building this motion themselves. You should come up with ideas. You should do them. They will go live and you will have the freedom to try. You will be a full member of the team.

3. Discern.

You should be good at writing, making videos, or some other growth-relevant skill. We are AI‑pilled, but view AI as the way to win a quantity game; we want to win a quantity game and a quality game. We win our customers not through throwing automated outbound at them, but through finding out their problems and solving them. If you're just going to write content with Chat or Claude, then don't apply.

4. Automate. Be AI‑pilled.

This is not in tension with the above goal. I want someone who will work to automate all of the boring parts of this job. You should want to learn how to write the perfect sales hook yourself, while ALSO trying to learn how to automate prospecting. Help us figure out how to give boring work to bots so we can do exciting work.

5. Learn.

As I said earlier, my time is yours, but that holds true across the team. You can bug our engineers, founders, and I to learn anything about our product or market. If you can prove to me that you are smarter, more creative, and a harder worker than other applicants, we can teach you the rest, and you’ll learn by doing.

Compensation

This is an internship without guaranteed payment. We offer commissions based on performance. If you are 100% the best candidate and need some money to make ends meet, we will find a way to make it work for you. If this internship goes well, you will help us close 6-7 figures in revenue this semester, and you will be rewarded for it. You could make more money than I do! I'd love that.

1. 5% commission on any deal you source from scratch
2. $200 per enterprise you source who makes it to trial
3. Additional bonuses to be paid out for content that goes viral - numbers here still being finalized

Who are we looking for?

1. Based in or willing to move to NYC. We want you in-person during part of the week and will figure out how to make this work with your class schedule. If you are a truly outstanding candidate, this is potentially flexible.
2. Excited about creating content and good at it. If you are camera shy or can't post, this isn't the job for you. We are investing heavily here over the next 6 months and need you too as well. Your application will be the greatest test of this.
3. Someone who's done something singularly impressive. This is how I am testing for slope. Show me why you're a unicorn. I don't care how.
4. Self-starters. We'll help you, but I am not holding your hand. If you want clear structure, deadlines, and thrive under tons of supervision, you probably shouldn't apply. You will be shipping on day 1. If that is exciting, join us. If it's scary, maybe join us. If you won't do it, don't join us.
5. Hard workers. We'll work around your class schedule, but we are not counting hours, we are doing as much as we can, given your constraints. We'll talk to you and agree on what this looks like, but given that you're rewarded for your own success, we're looking for someone who is willing to put in time to win.

If you are successful in this role, we will forever be in your corner. If you rock, Rohit's network and mine are now your network. If you need a rec letter? We'll write awesome ones. If you ever need anything, you can call me.

1. We have the best product in the market. The bottleneck is getting it in front of buyers. If you rock, this will be the best job you've ever had and will be a massive career acceleration. We will set you up for success and give you the mentorship you need to kill it.
2. This will be a blast. I think this is a super fun problem to try to solve. How do I get an awesome product that people want to the people who need it? This is a fundamentally solvable problem, and I'm excited to have the right person help us solve it.
3. We'll give you what you need! We'll give you Claude and ChatGPT Pro Max subscriptions, we'll trust you with a company card, you'll have access to our sick office in Chelsea with snacks, drinks, and meals, and we're flexible around your life. We're an understanding team and want you to succeed outside of work as well.
4. This could become your job. If we hit our revenue targets, we wil have more demand than we can handle and will need someone to handle it. That would be you!

Interview Process

1. Initial conversation with Bruce (30 mins)
2. Asynchronous exercise reviewed by Bruce and Rohit
3. In-person interview and case exercise with Bruce, Rohit, and Logan (1-2 hours)

Your answers to the 4 questions are crucial. If you just AI-slop it, you'll get dumped in our slop-bin. If you crush these, I'll give you an interview.