Founding Growth Lead for Open-Source AI & Privacy

askDodo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Askdodo, an AIGC and AI Agent platform, seeks a founding GTM / User Growth lead in San Francisco. You will own the growth funnel from acquisition to paid conversion, build scalable channels, and drive experimentation alongside the founders.

You’ll translate privacy-first models into practical growth strategies and engage open-source communities. You’ll collaborate with product and engineering on onboarding, growth loops, and visibility—setting up dashboards and weekly reviews.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience growing a consumer AI product 0→1 with a measurable result.
• Proven user acquisition across at least two channels (SEO, communities, creators, paid, app stores).
• Comfortable with funnels, cohorts and basic SQL or analytics tooling.
• Early-career founder energy (2–5 years) as an IC who runs experiments.
• Curious about open-source models and privacy; able to explain to everyday users.
• Experience in managing communities on Reddit/X and building an audience.
• Public presence (writing, demos, a community you run).

Responsibilities

• Own the full user growth funnel: acquisition, activation, retention and conversion to paid.
• Find and scale the channels that work for us and drop the ones that don’t.
• Turn open-source/privacy models into growth; engage communities and builders.
• Run fast onboarding, pricing and referral experiments; report impact.
• Collaborate with product/engineering on first-session experiences and growth loops.
• Set up tracking, dashboards, attribution and weekly growth reviews.

Skills

Growth hacking / 0→1 experience

User acquisition across channels

Data-driven with funnels and cohorts

SQL basics / analytics tooling

Open-source and privacy awareness

Community management on Reddit/X

Audience building / creator programs

Public presence (writing, demos)

Startup IC with experimental mindset

Tools

SQL

Analytics tools

Job description

Askdodo, an AIGC and AI Agent platform, seeks a founding GTM / User Growth lead in San Francisco. You will own the growth funnel from acquisition to paid conversion, build scalable channels, and drive experimentation alongside the founders.

You’ll translate privacy-first models into practical growth strategies and engage open-source communities. You’ll collaborate with product and engineering on onboarding, growth loops, and visibility—setting up dashboards and weekly reviews.