Growth Engineer, PLG SaaS

Lightsprint (YC P26)

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Lightsprint in San Francisco is seeking a Growth Lead to own end-to-end growth, ship in code, and treat Lightsprint.ai as a product. You’ll design, build, measure, and iterate across landing pages, onboarding, and activation for a PLG SaaS.

You’ll work directly with the founders, run experiments, and build analytics and attribution to drive signups to paid. Strong React/TypeScript and AI tooling are a plus, with the ability to turn data into actionable growth moves.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years driving growth at a PLG or developer-facing SaaS (early-stage)
  • Proficient in React/TypeScript and modern CSS; able to ship production web work
  • Experience with analytics, attribution tooling, and running clean experiments
  • Full-stack marketing judgment: write headlines, design pages, build and read results

Responsibilities

  • Own the funnel: measure and improve signups, onboarding, activation, and paid conversion.
  • Ship growth experiments in code: landing pages, demos, referral loops, programmatic SEO, comparison pages.
  • Build the marketing site as a product: lightsprint.ai performance and conversion infrastructure.
  • Run lifecycle and PLG motions: onboarding emails, activation nudges, upgrade prompts.
  • Make data the default: set up analytics and attribution to ground decisions in numbers.

Skills

Growth hacking
React/TypeScript
Analytics & attribution
Experiment design
PLG / SaaS growth

Tools

Cursor
Claude Code

Job description

Lightsprint in San Francisco is seeking a Growth Lead to own end-to-end growth, ship in code, and treat Lightsprint.ai as a product. You’ll design, build, measure, and iterate across landing pages, onboarding, and activation for a PLG SaaS.

You’ll work directly with the founders, run experiments, and build analytics and attribution to drive signups to paid. Strong React/TypeScript and AI tooling are a plus, with the ability to turn data into actionable growth moves.

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