Growth Associate

Ersilia; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ersilia in New York is seeking a Growth Associate to join the Head of Growth and help scale from $12M to nine-figure ARR. You are curious, resourceful, analytical, and eager to contribute in a fast-growing early-stage startup.

The role covers campaign execution across email, LinkedIn, events, and SEO, plus growth experiments, operations, analytics, and product-led growth initiatives. You will work cross-functionally with Growth, Sales, Product, Customer Success, and the founders, with NYC

Qualifications

• Must have growth experience or finance/consulting with a top school.
• Highly proactive and resourceful; can quickly tackle unfamiliar problems.
• Analytical and detail-oriented, yet creative and willing to test unconventional ideas.
• Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• NYC in-person 5 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Campaign execution across email, LinkedIn, events, SEO/AEO, paid media, and outbound.
• Growth experimentation: rapid testing across acquisition, activation, and conversion funnels.
• Events and conferences: planning and executing conferences, dinners, webinars, and field marketing.
• Operations and analytics: track campaign performance, build reports, analyze funnel data.
• Product-led growth: collaborate with product and engineering on onboarding, lifecycle, referral, and viral growth initiatives.

Skills

Growth experience

Analytical

Clear communication

In-person NYC

Education

Top-15 school

Finance/Consulting background

Job description

About Our Client

Our client is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours, not months. The product analyzes conversations, surfaces themes, and helps customers make faster, smarter product decisions. Entirely product-led with viral distribution: interviews are shared with tens of thousands of viewers, fueling PLG, organic expansion, and daily inbound from Fortune 500s.

30-person team that grew from $0 to a $12M run-rate in under a year. Backed by Sequoia, Ribbit, Conviction, Evantic, AI Grant, and Pear VC. Sequoia partner Bryan Schreier was the first investor in Qualtrics ($12B company tackling similar problems). Enterprise customers include Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G. Founders are serial entrepreneurs (prior AI exit) with team talent from Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, Affirm, Bain, Goldman Sachs, plus IOI/ICPC backgrounds.

About the Role

They are hiring a Growth Associate to work directly with the Head of Growth and help scale from $12M to nine-figure ARR. You'd be curious, resourceful, analytical, and excited to join a fast-growing early-stage startup in a career-defining role. No task is too small when it helps move the company forward.

The role spans campaign execution, growth experimentation, events and conferences, operations and analytics, and product-led growth initiatives. Cross-functional work with Growth, Sales, Product, Customer Success, and the founders. Reports to the Head of Growth.

What You'll Own

• Campaign execution across email, LinkedIn, events, SEO/AEO, paid media, and outbound
• Growth experimentation: rapid testing across acquisition, activation, and conversion funnels
• Events and conferences: planning and executing conferences, dinners, webinars, and field marketing
• Operations and analytics: track campaign performance, build reports, analyze funnel data
• Product-led growth: collaborate with product and engineering on onboarding, lifecycle, referral, and viral growth initiatives

Requirements

Must-Have

1. One of: (a) 1-2 years of growth experience + good school, OR (b) 1-3 years of finance/consulting + top-15 school (must be exceptional if no growth experience)
2. Highly proactive and resourceful: figures things out quickly, jumps into unfamiliar problems
3. Analytical and detail-oriented, but also creative and willing to test unconventional ideas
4. Clear communicator who moves quickly and thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
5. NYC 5 days a week in-person

Nice-to-Have

• B2B SaaS experience
• Growth experimentation track record
• GTM systems experience
• Background in startups, particularly Sequoia-backed or comparable hypergrowth environments

Base: $130-170K

Variable: $20-30K (tied to pipeline/experiment outcomes/growth metrics)

Total OTE: $150-200K