Founding Growth Lead

About GPTZero

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.

Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Amazon, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, Vector, and MILA.

About this Role

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.

If you're an ex-founder, early-stage operator, or an independent, resourceful entrepreneur, this role is built for you. You’ll have full ownership over your growth strategy while working with a world-class team, and learn from growth advisors.

What You’ll Own

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 You Are

• 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.

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.

Ideal Experience

✅ 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.

Why Join GPTZero?

🚀 Fast-moving, high-impact role where you shape growth strategy from day one.
📈 Direct ownership over major marketing and acquisition channels.

📈 Top of line equity and compensation in an early-stage startup 

🎯 Work closely with founders & top growth advisors (weekly mentorship).
🌎 Category-defining product with millions of users and a massive market opportunity.