Growth Lead at Simpleclosure

COMPANY OVERVIEW 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 not a traditional marketing hire. This is a growth hacker: someone who operates at the intersection of product, marketing, and data to find and prove the next set of levers that could meaningfully inflect our growth curve. You will own a portfolio of experimental initiatives, most of which will fail. That's the point. You'll design the experiments, run them fast, extract the signal, and double down on what works. You're not here to manage systems, you're here to discover them. This role sits alongside - but is distinct from - our marketing and product teams. You'll touch nearly every part of the organization, which means you need to be as good at influencing and collaborating as you are at building and testing. This is an IC role to start, with a path to building a team if you prove the playbook. *Ideal candidates MUST be located in New York City or Los Angeles metro areas. RESPONSIBILITIES RUN A RIGOROUS EXPERIMENT ENGINE - Design, launch, and evaluate a continuous portfolio of growth experiments, with a focus on high-potential, currently unscalable initiatives - Build and maintain a structured test-and-learn framework: clear hypotheses, defined success metrics, disciplined post-mortems - Move quickly from idea to live test (days, not weeks) - Distinguish between ideas worth scaling and noise worth abandoning SUPERCHARGE TOP OF FUNNEL - Identify and exploit non-obvious acquisition channels: communities, integrations, partnerships, content loops, viral mechanics, referral programs, and more - Generate a disproportionate share of new leads and awareness through creative, high-leverage tactics rather than paid spend - Look for compounding and flywheel effects - what can we build once that keeps delivering? OPERATE AT THE PRODUCT-MARKETING INTERSECTION - Work closely with the product team to identify growth loops embedded in the product itself: onboarding, activation, referral, and retention hooks - Identify where the product can do the marketing's job and vice versa - Contribute to roadmap conversations with a growth lens USE AI AS A FORCE MULTIPLIER - Treat AI tools as core infrastructure, not a bonus - for research, content generation, personalization, outreach, data analysis, and automation - Build AI-assisted workflows that let one person do what would otherwise require a team - Stay current with what's possible and continuously upgrade your toolkit SYNTHESIZE AND SHARE LEARNINGS - Document what works, what doesn't, and why, turning individual experiments into institutional knowledge - Create a culture of experimentation across the GTM org by sharing results openly and generously - Bring data into every conversation and make the invisible visible DESIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS - Demonstrated track record of running scrappy, high-impact growth experiments, ideally in an early-stage or growth-stage startup - Strong analytical foundation: you can pull, interpret, and act on data without needing a data analyst to do it for you - AI-native: you actively use AI tools to multiply your output and you're constantly exploring what's newly possible - Entrepreneurial mindset: you treat this role like a founder would — comfortable with ambiguity, energized by uncertainty, driven to create - Creative and systems-oriented: you can generate a hundred ideas and also build the infrastructure to test them systematically - Excellent collaborator: you'll work across product, marketing, sales, and ops, and you need to bring people with you without formal authority - Hungry: you want to make a real mark and you're not satisfied with incremental STRONG SIGNALS (NOT REQUIRED) - Experience building or growing a product with a viral or referral component - Familiarity with legal, financial, or professional services markets - Background in product management, engineering, or data science in addition to marketing or growth. Being an ex-founder could also be a plus here. - Experience building AI-assisted workflows or agents for marketing use cases WHAT WE OFFER - Compensation: $125,000 to $185,000 - Unlimited PTO - Competitive equity package - Employer Covered Medical Benefits - Two in-person team retreats a year - Hybrid in New York City or Los Angeles