Founding Growth Lead - USA
Inworld Ai
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Hybrid
- $190,000 - $270,000 a year
- Posted Jun 9, 2026
Job description
About the role
The Founding Growth Lead will own and build the growth function from scratch, creating the technical infrastructure, frameworks and processes to drive developer awareness, acquisition, engagement and retention. Working cross‑functionally with product, engineering and marketing, they will shape roadmap, pricing and packaging, run product launches, build a developer ecosystem, run performance marketing, SEO and content initiatives, and translate adoption into revenue growth.
About the company
Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers building the world’s top‑ranked realtime voice models. Their #1 ranked models power large consumer‑facing AI applications in health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience and media, serving hundreds of millions of users. The company focuses on R&D of state‑of‑the‑art models, realtime inference optimization, and APIs/products for developers. Inworld has raised over $125M from investors such as Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12, Founders Fund, Meta and Stanford, and has been recognized by CB Insights and LinkedIn as a leading AI startup.
Requirements
- Former founder or seasoned growth leader with experience scaling early‑stage, high‑growth companies.
- Strong product or engineering background with technical fluency to design and implement technically driven growth systems.
- Deep analytical skills, including growth modeling, cohort analysis, A/B testing, funnel diagnostics and data‑driven decision‑making.
- Proven track record of running product launches and campaigns that directly accelerated adoption and revenue.
- Hands‑on experience managing performance marketing budgets, paid channel strategy and full‑funnel attribution.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and view constant change as opportunity.
- Willingness to work nights and weekends hands‑on with the latest technical innovations.
- Solution‑oriented mindset, focusing on ideas and execution rather than org charts.
- Perspective of marketing as an engineerable, automatable product surface.
- Prior exposure to product‑led growth strategy and usage‑based business models.
- BA/BS degree or higher; technical degrees a plus.
- Based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate and work on‑site in the South Bay office a few days per week.