Lead Growth Engineer

The role

You will help build Ello's growth-engineering strategy, operating model, and tooling. You will develop growth features across mobile, web, backend, and lifecycle channels to drive business outcomes.

What you will do

• Help build Ello's growth-engineering strategy, operating model, tooling, and standards.
• Develop and own growth features end to end across mobile, web, backend, and lifecycle channels.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and referral.
• Design and run small, fast experiments.
• Define success metrics and instrument the experience.
• Improve critical journeys such as onboarding, signup, parent experiences, referrals, and notifications.
• Build or evolve experimentation, analytics, and data systems.
• Connect quantitative signals with qualitative insight into children's and parents' motivations and behavior.
• Partner closely with product, design, engineering, marketing, and company leadership.

Required qualifications

• Excellent in at least two of the following: Engineering, Growth and product judgment, Experimentation and data, Creativity & innovation.
• A track record of shipping product or growth initiatives that produced measurable user or business impact.
• Strong ownership and a bias to action.
• Comfort working across the stack.
• Hands-on experience with analytics and experimentation tools, such as SQL, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment, or equivalent systems.
• Strong product sense.
• A collaborative, direct communication style.

Nice to have

• Experience with Flutter, native iOS or Android, React, Python, or comparable technologies.
• Experience building beautiful & delightful products features or experiences for children and parents.
• Experience with consumer growth, sharing, subscriptions, lifecycle systems, or referral products.
• Experience integrating third-party systems such as Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, or CRMs.
• Experience using AI tools to increase development velocity or working with AI products and evaluation pipelines.
• Experience setting the foundations for or have spun up new function, practice, or team.

Benefits

• Build a new growth-engineering function with unusual ownership and room to grow.
• Work at the frontier of AI and interactive learning.
• See your work reach thousands of families around the world.

About the company

Ello is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. The team is around 50 people and is headquartered in San Francisco.