About the role
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This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco (Presidio) - we work from the office 5 days a week.
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You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting.
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We require US work authorization , but are open to O-1 or J-1 visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.
About Sauna by Wordware
Most AI products hand you a coworker on day one and hope you trust it. Sauna is the coworker you raise: it starts by learning how you work, earns autonomy task by task, and ends up running hours of work on its own while you keep taste, review, and the final say. Wordware is the ~20-person team behind it, backed by Spark Capital, Felicis, and Y Combinator with a $30M seed, the largest in YC history. We build from a San Francisco office in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, and we work absurdly hard because we can see and feel the outcome every day.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Head of Growth to own Sauna's path from thousands of users to millions. You'll be the first dedicated growth hire and the person who builds the machine from scratch, then builds the team to run it. You'll report to the CEO, on a team of ~20 in SF. This is a senior role, it's for someone who has run growth end to end before, not a first growth job.
The playbook: own the full consumer growth stack yourself first. Once channels prove out, you hire: a PMM/copy person (copy is the key skill here, not technical ability), a frontend-leaning engineer for programmatic SEO and the explore page, and a motion designer whose aesthetic is Johnny Harris, not generic corporate explainer videos. You use Sauna to make viral content. That's the job.
