Head of Growth Engineering

Role Overview

Build Plaud’s Growth engineering team from scratch, and define its strategy for onboarding, experimentation and funnel optimization across every surface users touch. Hire, lead and grow the team, and stay hands-on in the code when it helps.

What You Will Do

Own the end-user onboarding experience, build and run a high-tempo experiment program, find and fix the biggest drop-offs in the user funnel, and partner with the Data team on funnel instrumentation and experiment data.

Why It Might Be a Fit

10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading growth engineering at a product-led consumer or prosumer company, with a proven track record shipping onboarding and activation improvements that moved measurable metrics.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 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)
• 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

Benefits

• Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success
• High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity
• 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
• Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires
• Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity

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