Full job description
Growth Lead — Listen Labs
Location: New York City, NY or San Francisco, CA (Full-time onsite)
Compensation: $140,000 – $180,000 base + competitive equity
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT supported
Experience Level: 1–3 years
Employment Type: Full-Time
About Listen Labs
Listen Labs is an AI-powered customer research platform that automates interviews, surveys, and insight generation to help teams understand customers dramatically faster. The company has scaled from $0 to a $14M run rate in under a year, backed by Sequoia, Conviction, AI Grant, and Pear VC. Customers include Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G. The product has strong PLG/viral characteristics with shared interview outputs driving significant organic adoption and enterprise inbound. Team backgrounds include Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, Affirm, Bain, and Goldman Sachs.
About the Role
This is a foundational growth hire working directly with the Head of Growth to scale ARR aggressively. The role blends growth strategy, execution, content, PLG experimentation, events, and cross-functional GTM work. High ownership, high pace, highly hands-on.
What You’ll Own
Design and execute acquisition strategy across AEO/SEO, SEM, paid channels, social, and growth experimentation
Collaborate with product and engineering on viral loops, in-product engagement, and conversion optimization
Launch high-impact content including webinars, case studies, blog posts, white papers, and outbound enablement assets
Build and scale rapid experimentation frameworks
Plan and execute events, conferences, and associated email campaigns
Drive demand generation and qualified pipeline creation
Work cross-functionally with Sales, CS, Product, and Engineering
Build marketing infrastructure for a category-defining AI company
Requirements
1–3 years of growth marketing experience
B2B SaaS or high-growth B2C background
Demand generation and lead generation ownership
Multi-channel campaign execution experience
Strong growth experimentation instincts
Product-led growth and conversion optimization interest
Strong writing, storytelling, and content instincts
Analytical decision-making with clear ROI orientation
Ability to move between strategy and execution
Full-time onsite in NYC or SF
Target Backgrounds
Strong signals include prior consulting, strategy, or growth consulting backgrounds, investment banking backgrounds, strong school pedigree, well-known consumer or high-growth startup experience, fully owned campaign channels end to end, strong experimentation mindset, and high ownership startup execution energy.
This Role Is NOT For
Product marketing only without growth ownership
No demand gen or lead gen experience
Weak communication or presentation skills
Poor ROI or performance marketing understanding
Candidates who cannot work onsite
Generalist marketers without measurable growth ownership
Benefits
Meaningful equity ownership
Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage
Flexible time off
End-to-end ownership and hypergrowth career trajectory
Direct exposure to elite operators and investors
Interview Process
Pending approval
Hiring manager interview
Take-home assignment
Peer interviews
Onsite
Offer
Logistics
Role is full-time onsite in either New York City or San Francisco
H-1B, O-1, and OPT visa sponsorship available
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Listen Labs.
