About the role
Founding Growth
- San Francisco, CA (In-Person)
- 100-130k Cash + Equity
Known is a matchmaker that talks to users and supports them like a friend. Our mission is to make finding love one of the defining achievements of abundant general intelligence.
Users join Known by telling us their life story. On average, they spend 27 minutes talking to our conversational AI, sharing the experiences, hopes, and complexities that make them who they are. This gives us an extraordinary depth of personal context, and an even greater responsibility to earn and protect the trust behind it.
We are a team of ex-founders, engineers, and go-to-market operators who've helped build and scaled some of the world's most influential consumer AI products, including Uber, Uber Eats, Airbnb, Bland, and Faire.
We love to work hard, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. We work together in Cow Hollow, San Francisco.
Are you a good fit?
We are looking for the top 0.1% operations talent to work alongside our founders in San Francisco as we sprint from our $10M seed round toward launching across the US.
- 1-4 years of experience in early-stage startups, consulting, investment banking, or a similar high-performance environment
- A systems-minded operator who embraces ambiguity
- Strong communicator (written and verbal)
Strong specialty characteristics
The Work
We expect you to own a piece of Known’s growth. It’s up to you to decide what part of Known you’re most excited about working on.
This could be:
- 0-1 on a GTM strategy to scale Known to 100,000 users
- Scaling a UGC programs to thousands of creators and tens of thousands of users
- Growing a community for a beloved consumer brand; creating matchmaking events, brand partnerships and event series' across Known's launch cities
Our Investors
We’re backed by Eurie Kim and Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures (the investors behind Decagon, Faire, and Oura), NFX and PearVC.
Learn more
- Known’s 10M Seed | TechCrunch
- “You Don’t Need to Swipe Right” - Known | NYT
- Website
About Known
Known is an AI-powered matchmaking company on a mission to empower humanity by applying general intelligence to human connection. Unlike traditional dating apps that rely on swiping, Known takes a fundamentally different approach — users join by telling their life story through a conversation with an AI voice agent (averaging 27 minutes), giving the platform uniquely intimate context to make meaningful matches.
Known handles everything from finding your match to planning your date, removing the friction from the user and transferring it to the platform. The result: real dates with proven chemistry, no swiping required.
Culture & Team
Known is a tight-knit team of 18 based in Cow Hollow, San Francisco. The company is engineering-heavy, founded by builders behind some of the most widely used AI-driven consumer products including Uber Eats, Uber, and Afterpay. The culture blends technical excellence with the social energy you'd expect from a consumer dating brand — rooftop cocktail nights, team off-sites, and a genuinely fun, young environment where everyone is social and friendly.
Backed by a $10M seed round from Forerunner Ventures, NFX, and Pear VC, Known is sprinting toward a Series A and actively launching in new cities across the US. The company has already amassed 10,000+ users in San Francisco and is expanding to San Diego, LA, New York, and Chicago.
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Job details
Salary
$100,000 - $130,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
1+ years
Funding
Total raised
$9.7M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Forerunner Ventures
NFX
Pear VCFounders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.