Full Job Description
Growth is a brand-new team at Plaud, and you would build it from the start. You'd own onboarding, experimentation and funnel optimization across every surface our users touch: the device, mobile, web and desktop. You start with 3M+ users and a device already in their hands. We want someone who has run growth engineering at a product-led company, lives in experiments and still ships code.
**What you will do**
- Build Plaud's Growth engineering team from scratch, and define its strategy for onboarding, experimentation and funnel optimization across every surface users touch: the device, mobile, web and desktop.
- Hire, lead and grow the team (full-stack, mobile and data-minded engineers), and stay hands-on in the code when it helps.
- Own the end-user onboarding experience, from device setup and signup through first run and activation, so new users get value in their first session.
- Build and run a high-tempo experiment program on our experimentation platform, with sound statistics, clear readouts and shared learnings.
- Find and fix the biggest drop-offs in the user funnel, and turn what works into reusable patterns other product teams can adopt.
- Partner with the Data team on funnel instrumentation and experiment data the whole company can trust.
- Work closely with the product, pricing and app framework teams so that experiments ship safely behind feature flags on every surface.
- Report on activation, conversion through the funnel and experiment velocity, plus the guardrail metrics that must not get worse.
**Skills, qualifications and experience we look for**
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 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). Hardware or device onboarding is a strong plus.
- Strong full-stack skills (React, mobile, and a backend language such as Go, Python or Node.js) and comfort writing production code.
- Experience with experimentation and analytics tools such as PostHog, Amplitude or Segment.
- Has built a team from scratch, with excellent collaboration across Product, Design and Data.
**What we offer**
1. **Meaningful Ownership** An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud's long-term success.
2. **High-Impact Environment** Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
3. **Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity** Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
4. **Best-in-Class Equipment** Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
5. **Team & Culture** Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.
