Growth Lead

The role

The Growth Lead will evangelize the company vision and connect with candidates, AI engineers, researchers, and key ecosystem members. This role involves recruiting, defining culture, and hosting community events.

What you will do

• Tell HUD's story and get people excited about the vision through worldbuilding
• Find, connect, and meet with candidates, AI engineers, researchers, and key people in the AI ecosystem
• Define culture and values, screen candidates, and develop onboarding processes
• Own end-to-end recruiting and optimize systems, ops, and tooling
• Host community events, represent HUD at industry events, and create content
• Work with GTM Engineers to find intros or connection pathways into high-priority leads

Required qualifications

• Genuine excitement about frontier models
• Experience finding and connecting with people in any context
• Strong soft skills
• Desire to learn recruiting, marketing and events, GTM, or other functions
• Early-stage startup experience
• Ability to work independently in fast-paced environments

Nice to have

• Strong network within the RL researcher, RL engineer, and broader startup communities
• A clear point of view on how great technical companies tell stories
• Experience in recruiting, community, or content roles in startups
• Evidence that you can understand technical products well enough to explain them simply and accurately
• A standout portfolio of writing

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
• Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• 401k with a 4% match
• Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US employees)
• Health/wellness stipend (Singapore employees)
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Annual travel budget to visit either office

Before you apply

• Explain interest in detail under Why are you interested in working at HUD?
• We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore
• The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial

About the company

HUD's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. The team is a growing group of researchers, engineers and operators backed by $16M from top VCs and YC.