Growth Engineering Lead — Onboarding & Experimentation

Plaud; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)

High-end equipment for new hires

Fast-paced, product-driven environment

Offsite/company events

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Plaud Inc. is building the Growth engineering team to own onboarding, experimentation, and funnel optimization across all surfaces—device, mobile, web and desktop.

You would start from the ground, hire and lead full-stack, mobile and data-minded engineers, while staying hands-on in coding to ship impactful changes. The role focuses on defining onboarding, activation, and experiment velocity, delivering measurable improvements, and aligning with Product, Design and Data to ensure safe

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading growth engineering at a product-led consumer or prosumer company.
• Proven track record shipping onboarding and activation improvements that moved measurable metrics.
• Deep experimentation expertise: test design, statistical power, guardrail metrics, and knowing when not to run a test.
• Experience optimizing funnels across several surfaces (mobile, web, desktop).
• Strong full-stack skills (React, mobile, and a backend language such as Go, Python or Node.js).
• Experience with experimentation and analytics tools like PostHog, Amplitude or Segment.

Responsibilities

• Build Plaud's Growth engineering team from scratch and define its onboarding and funnel strategy across device, mobile, web and desktop.
• Hire, lead and grow the team, remaining hands-on where helps.
• Own onboarding experience from device setup to activation for first value.
• Run a high-tempo experiment program with sound stats and clear readouts.
• Identify and fix major funnel drop-offs and convert into reusable patterns for other teams.
• Collaborate with Data to instrument funnels and ensure trustworthy experiment data.

Skills

Growth leadership

Onboarding & activation

Experimentation design

Funnel optimization

Full-stack development

React

Backend experience (Go/Python/Node)

Data collaboration

Tools

PostHog

Amplitude

Segment

Job description

Plaud Inc. is building the Growth engineering team to own onboarding, experimentation, and funnel optimization across all surfaces—device, mobile, web and desktop.

You would start from the ground, hire and lead full-stack, mobile and data-minded engineers, while staying hands-on in coding to ship impactful changes. The role focuses on defining onboarding, activation, and experiment velocity, delivering measurable improvements, and aligning with Product, Design and Data to ensure safe