As our first growth hire, you will transform early organic pull into a repeatable engine for our next million users. You will lead UGC programs, manage paid acquisition personally, and optimize the entire lifecycle from activation to retention. This is a hands-on role combining creative taste with operational excellence in a fast-growing AI-native environment.
Founding Growth Lead at OpenWhispr
Join OpenWhispr as our Founding Growth Lead to scale a privacy-first AI voice assistant that has already captured 150,000+ users and $100k+ ARR. Backed by a16z Speedrun, you will have total ownership over acquisition, creator programs, and lifecycle marketing. We are looking for a hands-on operator who can build growth engines from zero, run paid campaigns personally, and use AI to multiply their impact. If you want to shape the future of human-AI interaction in a high-ownership, in-person environment in San Francisco, Chicago, or New York, this is your chance to lead.
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Location
San Francisco, Chicago, United States
Compensation
$150k-$180k + Equity
Company
OpenWhispr
Role overview
OpenWhispr is an open-source desktop and mobile dictation application that provides fast, accurate speech-to-text, meeting transcription, and notes. It supports macOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone, and iPad, and offers privacy-first local transcription models as well as cloud processing through user-provided API keys or OpenWhispr Cloud. The product emphasizes private, bot-free transcription, AI chat over meeting data, audio-to-text conversion, and semantic search for notes.
What you will do
- Own the end-to-end growth funnel, including paid acquisition across Meta, Google, and Apple Search Ads, while maintaining a strict focus on revenue and retention targets.
- Build a scalable UGC and creator engine from scratch, managing everything from creator relationships and briefs to production management and performance tracking.
- Design and implement an automated growth operating system using AI and APIs to streamline lifecycle marketing, experiment logging, and multi-channel reporting.
Who this is a fit for
- Has 4-8 years of experience in growth or performance marketing at a prosumer or product-led software company, with a proven track record of growing a channel from zero.
- Possesses a deep technical understanding of paid media, lifecycle tools, and attribution, and is comfortable executing campaigns directly without relying on external agencies.
- Demonstrates strong creative taste and operational excellence, using AI to automate repetitive workflows and build efficient, repeatable systems that allow a small team to move fast.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join an a16z Speedrun-backed team of five at the ground floor, owning the entire distribution strategy for an AI product with significant existing organic momentum.
- Influence both the brand and the product roadmap, working directly with the founder to shape how people interact with AI through voice.
- Leverage a high-traction foundation of 150,000+ downloads and $100k+ ARR to build a compounding growth engine using cutting-edge AI automation.
How Jack & Jill work together
I get to know what you’re great at, then find roles you’d never find yourself.Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
I recruit from Jack’s network and make the intro when I spot a great match.And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
Jack gets to know what you're great at and what you want next, then searches 15 million jobs daily and helps you discover roles at companies like this.
Meet Jack
What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and OpenWhispr wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.