Founding Growth Lead — AI Growth (Contract-to-Hire)

Collab; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (back-dated)

Competitive pay

Direct exposure to founders

Job summary

a0.dev is seeking a Founding Growth Lead to own user acquisition, activation and retention as we scale from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of users. You will experiment across paid and lifecycle channels, shaping the AI-enabled growth engine with the founders, and defining the model for a seamless transition from contract to a full founding team role.

You will work directly with the founders to determine growth loops, creative approaches, and scalable strategies, while moving fast in

Qualifications

• 2+ years driving growth at a consumer or product-led company.
• Hands-on experience running paid ads campaigns.
• Strong analytical chops with attribution, cohorts, and modeling.
• Lives in or willing to relocate to SF.

Responsibilities

• Bring new users to the platform by scaling the channels that work.
• Run paid acquisition across Meta, TikTok, Google and other channels.
• Partner with Brand/Content on creative production.
• Drive SEO and AI search visibility through content and pages.
• Optimize landing pages, signup flow and onboarding conversion.
• Build lifecycle, retention and re-engagement programs.
• Design virality and referral loops inside and outside the product.
• Analyze user behavior and influence product AI prompts with engineering.

Skills

Growth strategy

Paid ads

Analytics

SQL/Attribution

Tools

SQL

Excel/Sheets

Job description

a0.dev is seeking a Founding Growth Lead to own user acquisition, activation and retention as we scale from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of users. You will experiment across paid and lifecycle channels, shaping the AI-enabled growth engine with the founders, and defining the model for a seamless transition from contract to a full founding team role.

You will work directly with the founders to determine growth loops, creative approaches, and scalable strategies, while moving fast in