Founding Growth Lead

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

Job summary

Amodal AI is seeking a growth leader who can set the direction and build a scalable outbound motion. You will craft a plan, rally the founders and sales, and own the outcomes. Expect to test diverse channels—from cold outbound to communities and partnerships—and iterate quickly based on data.

A non-traditional background is welcome if you’ve built real growth with no budget. This is a high-velocity, early-stage role where you’ll shape the company’s market presence and pipeline.

Qualifications

• A hustler with a track record in growth, distribution, or founder roles.
• You set direction and move fast without waiting for a plan.
• You can write landing pages, cold copy, and posts with a human touch.
• You move now and iterate, shipping experiments and learning from results.

Responsibilities

• Set the growth strategy and define what to try first.
• Run twenty experiments across channels and tactics.
• Own Amodal's presence and build the channels that earn attention.
• Measure results honestly and cut losers quickly; chase pipeline over vanity metrics.
• Close the loop with founders and sales to learn what works.

Skills

Growth strategy

Experimentation

Channel development

Copywriting

LLMs/Agents

Tools

LLMs

No-code tools

Job description

Amodal designs, builds, and operates custom AI agents that absorb the manual work weighing teams down. Tuned to each business, owned by the customer, and shipped in weeks — not quarters. Our agents take over the repetitive, time-consuming work across support, operations, and analysis, so teams can focus on the decisions and strategy that move the business forward.

We're white-glove end to end: our engineers scope the work, build the agent, wire it into your stack, and stay on the pager once it's live. You hire a service, not a tool you have to learn.

About the Role

We have an outbound motion. We need someone to build a growth machine around it. And we don't really care what the machine looks like, as long as it produces conversations with the right buyers.

This is a role for a hustler. Someone who carries a number in their head and will run at it from twenty directions to hit it. Cold outbound one week, a Reddit thread that blows up the next, a paid experiment after that, then a scrappy free tool, then a partnership with someone who already has the audience, then UGC, then an influencer who speaks to ops leaders. You won't be handed a channel. You'll go find the ones nobody's tried and figure out which ones pay.

The other half is presence. Amodal is early, and most of our buyers have never heard of us. You'll build the surface area that changes that: content, launches, communities, anywhere ops leaders and engineering directors actually pay attention. Not brand for its own sake. Channels that produce pipeline.

Here's the part that matters most: we're not looking for someone who wants to run a role really well. We're looking for someone who sets the direction. You'll show up with a plan, not ask for one. You'll decide what we try, rally the founders and sales around it, and own the outcome. When something works, you double down. When it doesn't, you kill it and move on. Nobody here is going to manage you. The whole point is that you're the one with the game.

You'll work directly with the founders, who have built and sold companies before, with over $100M raised across prior ventures. And you'll have unusual leverage: Amodal's own agent runtime is yours to use. The best version of this role turns it loose on the growth work itself. So what you build to win our customers becomes a proof point for what we sell them.

AI agent infrastructure is early and moving fast. This role decides how a serious buyer first hears about us.

What you'll do

• Set the strategy and go. You own the growth plan. You decide what we try, in what order, and why. Then you get people aligned behind it and make it happen. This is a direction-setting role, not just an execution seat.
• Run twenty experiments. Forums, communities, paid, SEO, cold outbound, free tools, UGC, influencers, partnerships, launches. Whatever might work. Most will flop. The job is running enough of them, fast enough, that the winners compound.
• Own Amodal's presence from zero. You decide what we publish and where, and you build the channels that earn attention on their own. Turn a company most people have never heard of into one that ops leaders and engineering directors keep running into.
• Measure honestly and cut fast. Know which experiments earn more investment and which get killed. Chase pipeline, not vanity metrics, and be ruthless about walking away from your own ideas when the numbers say to.
• Close the loop with sales and the founders. What pulled, what landed flat, which segments respond. You'll be one of our sharpest reads on where the market actually is.

What we're looking for

• You're a hustler with a track record. However it's been labeled: growth, founder, solo operator, the person who built distribution for their own thing from nothing. You've hit a number without a budget or a brand behind you. Show us a channel you built that worked.
• You set direction, you don't wait for it. You're the one with the plan who gets everyone else aligned around it. You've operated without a playbook and thrived on it. If you need a roadmap handed to you, this isn't the role.You'll try anything and read the results cold. Twenty ideas, no ego about which one wins. You instrument what you run, tell the truth about the data, and cut losers without flinching.
• You can write. Landing pages, cold copy, posts that sound like a person who gets the work. Not AI-generated marketing.
• You move now, and you iterate. First week: get the stack in your hands and ship your first experiment. You'd rather launch something scrappy today, read what happened, and ship a better version tomorrow than plan something perfect for next month.

Nice to have

• You've built with LLMs or agents and automated real work, not just prompted a chatbot
• Enough front-end or no-code ability to ship a landing page or a working tool without waiting on anyone
• Early-stage background where you were the whole growth function
• Familiarity with prospecting and enrichment stacks like Apollo, HubSpot, or Clay

Technical chops are a bonus here, not a bar. If you can wire things up yourself or put our agent runtime to work, that's great. But a non-technical operator who gets results is exactly who we want.

The same goes for your background. No degree required. No particular number of years required. We're not going to count titles or scan for brand names, we care about what you've actually built and how fast you moved while building it. If you're early in your career and you've already made something work with no budget and no brand behind you, that's a stronger signal to us than a decade of managing someone else's playbook.

Compensation & Structure

This is a full-time role. Compensation includes a base salary plus performance upside tied to qualified pipeline sourced from the channels you build. Specific numbers are shared during the interview process.