Growth Lead

Clera

$100K — $150K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3 to 8 years of experience in recruiting or community building within startups
  • Proven ability to manage full-cycle recruiting processes
  • Excitement about frontier AI and reinforcement learning
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
  • Experience representing a company at industry events
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
  • Experience creating engaging content for marketing or community

Responsibilities

  • Evangelize the company's vision to attract candidates and partners
  • Own end-to-end recruiting processes and optimize associated tools
  • Define company culture and develop onboarding processes
  • Partner with leadership to improve recruiting systems
  • Collaborate on hosting community events and attending industry conferences
  • Identify connection pathways into high-priority leads

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic startup environment
  • Engagement directly with cutting-edge AI technology
  • Potential for career growth in a high-trust role
  • Involvement in shaping company culture and community presence
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a high-trust, early-stage role at a fast-moving AI infrastructure startup building the platform for reinforcement learning environments and post-training data. You will sit at the intersection of recruiting, community, and go-to-market, shaping how the company grows its team and its presence across the frontier AI ecosystem. If you love telling compelling stories about technical products and connecting with people who are building the future of AI, this role was designed for you.
What You'll Do
  • Evangelize the company's vision and get candidates, researchers, and ecosystem partners excited about what is being built.
  • Own end-to-end recruiting: sourcing, building pipelines, optimizing tooling, and creating automated workflows.
  • Define company culture and values, and develop onboarding processes for new hires that reflect them.
  • Partner with the Chief of Staff to continuously improve recruiting systems and operations.
  • Collaborate with the Marketing and Events Lead to host community events, attend industry conferences, and produce content.
  • Work with go-to-market engineers to identify and establish connection pathways into high-priority leads and partners.
What We're Looking For
  • 3 to 8 years of experience in recruiting, community building, go-to-market, or a closely related function at an early-stage startup.
  • Proven ability to own full-cycle recruiting processes and build or optimize supporting systems and tooling.
  • Genuine excitement about frontier AI, reinforcement learning, and the technical communities around them.
  • Strong interpersonal skills: well-spoken, extraverted, and skilled at reading people and building relationships quickly.
  • Experience representing a company at industry events and hosting community-facing programming.
  • Ability to understand complex technical products and explain them clearly and accurately to diverse audiences.
  • Experience creating written or multimedia content for marketing or community engagement.
  • An established network within RL research, RL engineering, or the broader startup community is a strong plus.
  • A portfolio of professional writing samples that demonstrates your storytelling ability.
  • Comfort operating independently in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with evolving responsibilities.
Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $100,000 to $150,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location

This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.

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