Plaud

Head of Growth Engineering

San Francisco, CA, Remote. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will build the Growth engineering team from scratch and define its strategy for onboarding, experimentation, and funnel optimization. You will own the end-user onboarding experience across device, mobile, web, and desktop surfaces.

What you will do

  • Build Plaud's Growth engineering team from scratch
  • Define strategy for onboarding, experimentation and funnel optimization
  • Hire, lead and grow the team
  • Stay hands-on in the code when it helps
  • Own the end-user onboarding experience
  • Build and run a high-tempo experiment program
  • Find and fix the biggest drop-offs in the user funnel
  • Partner with the Data team on funnel instrumentation and experiment data
  • Work closely with the product, pricing and app framework teams
  • Report on activation, conversion through the funnel and experiment velocity

Required qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years leading growth engineering at a product-led consumer or prosumer company
  • Proven track record shipping onboarding and activation improvements that moved measurable metrics
  • Deep experimentation expertise: test design, statistical power, guardrail metrics, and knowing when not to run a test
  • Experience optimizing funnels across several surfaces (mobile, web, desktop)
  • Strong full-stack skills (React, mobile, and a backend language such as Go, Python or Node.js)
  • Comfort writing production code
  • Experience with experimentation and analytics tools such as PostHog, Amplitude or Segment
  • Has built a team from scratch

Nice to have

  • Hardware or device onboarding is a strong plus

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems
  • Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices
  • Annual company offsites
  • Team events

About the company

Plaud is a San Francisco-based company building the real-world AI interface for professionals. It is a bootstrapped, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate.