Growth Operations Lead: Contributor Growth & Partnerships

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sieve is building a contributor platform to fuel AI data needs. We’re hiring a Growth Operations Lead to own growth experiments, activation, retention, and supply-side partnerships.

You’ll run campaigns, build repeatable systems, and work across product and operations to optimize onboarding and incentives for contributors. Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate, you’ll shape scalable growth for our data network.

Qualifications

• Experience owning growth, growth operations, or marketplace supply, with a track record of building programs from scratch
• Demonstrated ability to design experiments, launch quickly, measure results, and scale what works
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable working with funnel data, cohorts, dashboards, and acquisition economics
• Hands-on experience with outbound tools, CRMs, lifecycle messaging, and workflow automation
• Strong communication and commercial instincts; comfortable recruiting early contributors and closing partnerships yourself
• Resourceful, self-directed, and willing to handle the operational details needed to get a new initiative off the ground
• Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate

Responsibilities

• Run growth experiments: Develop and test acquisition channels across outbound, referrals, communities, content, paid campaigns, and unconventional growth tactics.
• Build growth systems from scratch: Create the tooling, automation, tracking, and playbooks that turn successful experiments into repeatable contributor acquisition.
• Improve activation and retention: Identify where contributors drop off, shorten the path to a first paid task, and build programs that keep them engaged and contributing.
• Develop supply‑side partnerships: Source, pitch, and launch partnerships with studios, creator networks, specialist firms, and organizations that can bring contributors and data into Sieve.
• Expand supply across physical AI and media generation: Translate emerging project needs into targeted campaigns and partnerships that bring in the right skills, access, and expertise.
• Own growth measurement: Track acquisition cost, conversion, activation, retention, and contribution quality; use the results to decide what to scale or stop.
• Work across product and operations: Turn contributor feedback and experiment results into improvements to onboarding, communication, incentives, and the platform experience.

Skills

Growth operations

Experiment design

Analytics

CRM tools

Lifecycle messaging

Workflow automation

Partnerships

Communication

Self-directed

Location flexible

Tools

SQL

Scripting

AI tools

Job description

Sieve is building a contributor platform to fuel AI data needs. We’re hiring a Growth Operations Lead to own growth experiments, activation, retention, and supply-side partnerships.

You’ll run campaigns, build repeatable systems, and work across product and operations to optimize onboarding and incentives for contributors. Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate, you’ll shape scalable growth for our data network.