Founding Growth Lead (Contract-to-Hire)
Hybrid (SF)$140k - $180k + equityFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Founding Growth Lead to own acquisition, activation, retention, and growth strategy for a0.dev as they scale from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of users. 90-day contract-to-hire with path to full-time founding team seat including salary and back-dated equity.
Responsibilities
- Bring new users to the platform by finding and scaling the channels that work
- Run paid acquisition across Meta, TikTok, Google, and any new channel that makes sense
- Partner with the Brand and Content Lead on creative production
- Drive SEO and AI search visibility through content, programmatic pages, and how we show up in both Google and AI assistants
- Optimize landing pages, signup flow, and onboarding conversion
- Build lifecycle, retention, and re-engagement programs (email, push, in-app)
- Design virality and referral loops, both inside the product and outside it
- Analyze user behavior and conversations, find where we lose people and where we could earn more, and influence changes to the AI's prompts and capabilities with the engineering team
- Run experiments across the funnel: hypothesis, test, ship, learn, repeat
- Own attribution, dashboards, and the metrics we run the business on
Qualifications
- 2+ years driving growth at a consumer or product-led company
- A track record of creative experiments and original thinking about acquisition
- Hands-on experience running paid ads campaigns, with a point of view on what creative works and why
- Strong analytical chops, comfortable with attribution, cohorts, and modeling in spreadsheets or SQL
- Lives in or willing to relocate to SF
Skills
Required:Growth strategy and experimentationPaid media managementAnalytics and attributionProduct marketing
Nice to have:SEO & content growth
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Meals covered when you're in the office (lunch daily, dinner when you're working late)
- Work directly with the founders with full transparency and influence over how the business operates
- Build and own the growth engine instead of inheriting one
- Real responsibility from day one at a fast-growing YC company
- Path to convert from a 90-day contract to a full-time founding team role with salary and equity
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About a0.dev
We make mobile apps using AI.
a0.dev is a platform that helps mobile developers build high quality apps in days instead of weeks by generating custom react native projects. We've launched top ranking apps that have been used by hundreds of thousands, and now we're creating the tools we wish we had to build faster.
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