Founding Growth Lead – Fintech (San Francisco On-site)

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Clera in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on founding growth role at an early-stage fintech. You will own customer acquisition and qualification, working directly with the founder to turn conversations with founders and business owners into client relationships.

You will build campaigns across outbound, automation, events, gifting, partnerships, referrals, paid channels, and PR, run growth experiments, measure results, and turn successful approaches into repeatable programs.

Qualifications

• Experience acquiring founders, SMBs, or business-owner customers through multiple channels.
• Early growth hire at a fast-growing startup or proven equivalent of winning business-owner customers.
• Hands-on approach to building campaigns, writing outreach sequences, and setting up automation.
• Strong understanding of CAC, conversion funnels, and retention.
• Finance/M&A/banking experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Own customer acquisition and qualification end-to-end.
• Operate campaigns across outbound, automation, events, gifting, partnerships, referrals, paid channels, and PR.
• Convert media reach among founders and business owners into qualified conversations and mandates.
• Map prospective buyers and decision-makers, identifying effective outreach tactics.
• Run rapid growth experiments, measure results, and scale successful approaches.
• Collaborate with the founder on owner calls, advisory, and deal closing.

Skills

Growth mindset

Outbound campaigns

Automation & sequences

Customer acquisition

Partnerships & referrals

Tools

CRM

Email automation

A/B testing

Job description

Clera in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on founding growth role at an early-stage fintech. You will own customer acquisition and qualification, working directly with the founder to turn conversations with founders and business owners into client relationships.

You will build campaigns across outbound, automation, events, gifting, partnerships, referrals, paid channels, and PR, run growth experiments, measure results, and turn successful approaches into repeatable programs.