Growth

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

What that looks like concretely: - Growth strategy across channels. - Own the full growth strategy across paid, organic, brand, and product-led motions. - Acquisition at scale. - Scale inbound demand through performance marketing, SEO, lifecycle marketing, virality loops, and bold stunts (e.g. our “Stop Hiring Humans” billboards). - Conversion optimization. - Build and optimize funnels across web, product, and sales hand-off.
Instrument every step and improve it with data. - Product-led growth. - Design onboarding flows, paywall moments, and in-product upsell and expansion paths to drive PLG adoption. - Brand & community. - Turn Artisan into a cult brand.
Architect viral campaigns, UGC loops, and social dominance across LinkedIn, X, and beyond. - Analytics & experimentation. - Build the growth model, own the dashboards, and run continuous experiments across every channel.

WHAT ARTISAN IS We're building AI employees. Not chatbots. Not copilots.
Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR used by hundreds of companies.
Right now we're building Ava 2.0, a step change in what an AI employee can do.
experience in growth, marketing, or a similar role - A creative, out-of-the-box thinker who enjoys testing unconventional ideas - High grit and hunger — willing to work hard and take ownership - Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building from zero - Strong communicator who can work directly with leadership WHY THIS ROLE - You’re not joining a growth team — you’re helping shape it.

We're a YC W24 company, have raised $35M+ from investors including Y Combinator, and are at $8M+ ARR.
You’ll own how Artisan grows — from first touch to expansion — and work directly with the CEO and growth team to design and execute a strategy that takes Artisan from $7M → $25M+ ARR in the next 12 months.
What you build will directly affect revenue, brand, and product adoption. - You’ll ship meaningful work every week in a fast-moving environment. - Competitive compensation, flexibility, and autonomy in a company with real traction and real ambition.

She researches leads, writes and sends emails in a customer's voice, runs multi-step outbound sequences, manages her own deliverability infrastructure, self-optimizes over time, and handles objections and meeting booking.
The engineering problems are hard and the surface area is enormous.
THE ROLE You’ll be a core part of the growth team at Artisan.
We’re known for our marketing, and this role exists to double down on it.
Growth at Artisan spans acquisition, conversion, product-led loops, and brand.
This role has direct ownership over how Artisan scales. - You’ll work directly with the CEO on one of the most important problems in the company: growth. - The scope is real and the stakes are high.
DETAILS Team: Growth Reports to: CEO INTERVIEW PROCESS Introductory chat with our recruiter 15-minute interview with the CEO Short practical exercise (growth or content/strategy related) 30-minute culture and values interview with the CEO OUR CULTURE AND VALUES Founder mindset.
Everyone acts like an owner: take initiative, think big, challenge ideas, and push for 10× outcomes.
We apply the 80/20 rule, kill sunk costs quickly, and focus on what actually moves the needle.
Every decision starts with the customer experience.