Growth Lead, Community & Ecosystem at Simpleclosure

ABOUT THE COMPANY Every year, one million businesses shut down, yet the process remains messy, expensive, and underserved. At SimpleClosure, our mission is to make business shutdowns seamless, compliant, and stress free, because closing a company shouldn’t feel harder than starting one. We recently raised our $15 million Series A and were named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025. Backed by top investors and trusted by hundreds of startups, we’re rapidly establishing ourselves as the technology leader in this space. Join us and make an outsized impact as we create innovative solutions for businesses, their teams, and their stakeholders. JOB OVERVIEW This is two jobs in one body. By day, you are a rigorous growth operator: designing experiments, pulling signals, building flywheels, and finding the non-obvious channels that move our top-of-funnel. By night, and on weekends, and at 7am coffee meetups, you are SimpleClosure's most visible presence in the Bay Area startup ecosystem. You know every founder, every partner at a VC fund, every senior associate at a startup law firm. You are the person people text when a portfolio company is in trouble. You are the reason founders hear about SimpleClosure before they need it, and remember us the moment they do. *Ideal candidates MUST be located in the San Francisco Metro Area. 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 DESIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS - 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 Desired but not required: - 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 WHAT WE OFFER - Compensation: $125,000 – $200,000 base salary - Competitive equity package - Employer Covered Medical Benefits - Unlimited PTO - Remote in SF - with regular travel to NY and LA - Budget for community events, dinners, and hosting — this role has a real expense account - Two in-person team retreats a year