Head of Growth Engineering

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

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 3,000,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company. With GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Why You Should Join Us

• Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
• Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
• Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
• Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
• Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

Growth is a brand-new team at Plaud, and you would build it from the start. You'd own onboarding, experimentation and funnel optimization across every surface our users touch: the device, mobile, web and desktop. You start with 3M+ users and a device already in their hands. We want someone who has run growth engineering at a product-led company, lives in experiments and still ships code.

What You Will Do

• Build Plaud's Growth engineering team from scratch, and define its strategy for onboarding, experimentation and funnel optimization across every surface users touch: the device, mobile, web and desktop.
• Hire, lead and grow the team (full-stack, mobile and data-minded engineers), and stay hands-on in the code when it helps.
• Own the end-user onboarding experience, from device setup and signup through first run and activation, so new users get value in their first session.
• Build and run a high-tempo experiment program on our experimentation platform, with sound statistics, clear readouts and shared learnings.
• Find and fix the biggest drop-offs in the user funnel, and turn what works into reusable patterns other product teams can adopt.
• Partner with the Data team on funnel instrumentation and experiment data the whole company can trust.
• Work closely with the product, pricing and app framework teams so that experiments ship safely behind feature flags on every surface.
• Report on activation, conversion through the funnel and experiment velocity, plus the guardrail metrics that must not get worse.

Skills, Qualifications And Experience We Look For

• 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). Hardware or device onboarding is a strong plus.
• Strong full-stack skills (React, mobile, and a backend language such as Go, Python or Node.js) and comfort writing production code.
• Experience with experimentation and analytics tools such as PostHog, Amplitude or Segment.
• Has built a team from scratch, with excellent collaboration across Product, Design and Data.

What We Offer

• Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.
• High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
• Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
• Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
• Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.

Disclaimer: Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.