SimpleClosure - Growth Lead, Community & Ecosystem
Requirements
• Already living in SF and plugged into the ecosystem, or a demonstrated track record of building community presence quickly in a new city • Genuine social energy — you are energized by events and people, not drained by them. This is not a hustle requirement, it is a personality fit. • Demonstrated growth track record: scrappy, high-impact experiments at an early-stage or growth-stage startup • Strong analytical foundation: you pull, interpret, and act on data without needing a data analyst • AI-native: you actively use AI tools to multiply output and you are constantly exploring what is newly possible • Comfortable with ambiguity, energized by uncertainty, driven to create something from nothing • Excellent collaborator — you bring people with you without formal authority • Existing relationships within the SF VC community (bonus if you have contacts at funds with large portfolios of early-stage companies) • Personal experience founding or shutting down a company — you know what this moment feels like from the inside • Background in product, engineering, or data science in addition to marketing or growth • Experience building AI-assisted outreach, community, or content workflows • Familiarity with legal, financial, or professional services markets
Responsibilities
• By Day: • Design, launch, and evaluate a continuous portfolio of growth experiments across acquisition, activation, and referral • Build and maintain a rigorous test-and-learn framework: clear hypotheses, defined metrics, disciplined post-mortems • Identify and exploit non-obvious acquisition channels — communities, integrations, partner loops, viral mechanics • Work closely with product to find growth loops embedded in the product itself: onboarding hooks, referral triggers, retention signals • Use AI as core infrastructure for research, outreach personalization, content generation, and workflow automation • Synthesize what works into institutional knowledge; make the invisible visible for the rest of the GTM team • By Night: • Attend 3–5 Bay Area startup events per week — accelerator demo days, VC-hosted dinners, founder meetups, legal and accounting firm events, tech week gatherings • Build genuine, deep relationships with: VC associates and partners (especially those managing portfolio companies in distress), startup attorneys and paralegals, founders who have recently shut down or are considering it, accelerator program managers (YC, a16z, First Round network) • Become the known SimpleClosure face in SF — the person the ecosystem thinks of when the words 'shutdown' or 'wind-down' come up in conversation • Source warm introductions and referral relationships that feed directly into the sales pipeline • Run or co-host SimpleClosure-branded community touch points: founder dinners, VC roundtables, informal 'what to do when it's over' conversations • Feed intelligence back to the team: what are founders worried about, what language do they use, what do VCs tell their portfolio when things go wrong
Benefits
• Compensation: OTE salary range $120,000 to $180,000 (this includes base pay and variable compensation) • Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision • Unlimited paid time off • Fully remote in San Francisco Bay area (with expectations of being in person for events) • Two company-wide offsites each year • 401(k) with Traditional and Roth options, with immediate eligibility
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