Founding Growth Lead, GPTZero
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AI-text identification platform
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AI-text identification platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To restore information quality and transparency on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- If you're an ex-founder, early-stage operator, or an independent, resourceful entrepreneur, this role is built for you
- A Builder – You love figuring things out from scratch and thrive in ambiguity
- Experimental & Scrappy – You take quick, calculated bets and optimize aggressively
- Data-Obsessed – You back your decisions with numbers, insights, and a clear growth thesis
- High-Ownership – You move with urgency, own your KPIs, and push past roadblocks
- Consumer-First Thinker – You obsess deeply with trends and how people find their information to speak their language
- Ex-founder or early-stage operator who has driven consumer growth from 0 → 1
- Deep understanding of growth loops, funnel optimization, and high-leverage growth tactics
- Data scientist in a past life; or at least have technical knowhow in either SQL, Python, Scipy, Databricks, and Amplitude to understand user behavior
- Experience running rapid experiments and iterating based on data
- Experience testing acquisition channels (e.g., virality, social, search, influencer marketing) is a plus
- Familiarity with TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Twitter, and influencer-driven growth is a plus
- Experience working with AI, EdTech, or writing-related products is a bonus but not required
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a high-agency, execution-driven growth leader to own consumer growth at GPTZero
- This is a Swiss Army knife role—one where you’ll work directly with our founder (Edward) to build high-impact growth loops, experiment rapidly, and scale new channels
- You’ll have full ownership over your growth strategy while working with a world-class team, and learn from growth advisors
- In the early days of the company, you will work across many parts of the org, including but not limited to:
- Full Product-led Growth Ownership — experiment and improve the entire user journey including signup, activate, checkout, monetization, and retained
- High-Velocity Execution – Launch multiple experiments per week, measure impact, and double down on what works
- Virality: develop and scale viral loops that grow organic impressions and conversion
- Data-Driven Strategy – Leverage analytics to refine messaging, onboarding, channel selection, and positioning
- Your role might also include the following, before we bring in specialists for these functions:
- Positioning & landing page ideation, testing, and analysis
- Consumer acquisition strategies such as TikTok influencer marketing, SEO, partnerships, and more
- Build content and community engagement loops for students, teachers, marketers, and writers through organic social, community creation, and thought leadership
- Who will help you succeed
- Direct Access to Leadership – You will work day-to-day with Edward (CEO), and meet weekly with Alex (CTO) on integrating machine learning developments and new products (auto-grader and fact-checker) with our growth strategy
- Rapid Engineering Experimentation – Collaborate with our engineering team to run A/B tests and growth experiments at high velocity
- Design & Mockups – In addition to designing experiments and landing pages yourself in Figma, Lovable, V0, etc., our world-class design team is available anytime to collaborate and finetune your drafts and ideas
- Paid Marketing & Acquisition – Our paid marketing guru, Faizan Mehdi (Director Demand Gen, Affinity, part-time with GPTZero) will help optimize our email acquisition and paid channels to fuel your growth efforts
- Growth Mentorship – We’ll invest in top-tier growth mentors and coaches to help you learn and scale
- To start, you’ll meet weekly with our growth advisor, Gaurav Vohra (Founding Growth @ Superhuman), for hands-on strategy sessions
- You’ll also have unfiltered Slack access to Gaurav to troubleshoot challenges and refine your experiments live
Our take
Since generative AI exploded onto the scene, it has been put to good use across a range of industries. Unfortunately, it has also been used to ramp up the production of subpar content which is misleading or completely incorrect. Not to mention it has helped proliferate academic fraud.
GPTZero is on a mission to help combat this AI epidemic, with a platform capable of identifying content written by AI tools such as ChatGPT. Its solutions can help teachers, students, writers, recruiters and more to build back the trust that has been broken by easy-to-access gen-AI.
The company's mission is certainly compelling, and investors agree, with GPTZero receiving impressive funding already. It will use the funds to support its roadmap which includes the development and launch of many new features such as an editor platform that records and cites AI usage.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2024
$10m
SERIES A
May 2023
$3.5m
SEED
Total funding: $13.5m
Company benefits
- 🏥 Health, dental, and mental health benefits
- 💻 Hybrid work in Toronto and NYC offices
- 🍰 Equity
- 🏝 Flexible PTO
- 🎉 Regular company retreats
- 💡Mentorship opportunities with our world-class advisors and investors
- 🙌 Wellness and learning stipend
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Edward Tian
(CEO)Worked at the Princeton NLP Lab and was an Investigative Journalist at BBC Africa Eye. Also, they were a Contributing Writer for Bellingcat and Head of Data at Representable.org.
Alex Cui
(CTO)Was a Research Scientist at Waabi. Has interned in Machine Learning at Uber, Facebook and Kuna Systems. Also interned at Builders VC, and co-founded Open Mind Press and Whimmly.
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