Founding Growth Marketer

The role

You will own the top of the funnel end to end by managing paid media, creator programs, and affiliate channels. You will build a content engine and ship programmatic SEO to drive demand for Sauna.

What you will do

• Own the top of the funnel end to end
• Run a creator program with Meta and agencies
• Build an affiliate program
• Build a content engine using the product itself
• Ship programmatic SEO and AEO with an engineering partner
• Write copy for landing pages, ads, emails, posts, and video scripts
• Run launches including positioning, copy, social, email, video brief, press, and community
• Report weekly on new people reached and cost per person

Required qualifications

• You have run actual ads with your own hands
• You understand conversion events, match rate, and campaign tracking
• You have taken something from unknown to known
• You are a systems thinker
• You have built something that does part of your job for you with a feedback loop
• You write unusually well
• You know what is working on X, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok this month
• You are technical enough to ship a landing page and brief SEO work
• Must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting
• US work authorization required

Nice to have

• You have priced or grown a usage-based product
• You have run a UGC creator program or an affiliate program at real volume
• A portfolio of work that traveled, with the numbers attached
• Existing relationships with creators, newsletters, or AI community distribution channels
• Already using Sauna, or something like it, as part of how you work

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision
• daily lunch and dinner in the office
• 401(k)
• gym budget
• The Presidio office with a sauna and the beach across the road
• real media budget

Before you apply

• Open to O-1 or J-1 visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates
• Must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting
• Answer one question in three paragraphs or fewer about a system you built
• Work trial is paid, in person, usually a few days to two weeks

About the company

Wordware is the team behind Sauna, a hybrid of AI and software. They are 15 people backed by Spark Capital, Felicis, and Y Combinator with a $30M seed.