About the role
We are looking for a Founding Growth hire with 2-5 years of experience to own and operationalize Known's go-to-market motion as we scale across the US. You're someone who's done growth at a consumer startup — ideally one that's made the Series A to Series B leap — and you thrive as a chief organizer, not just a strategist. You'll work directly with our co-founder to build a repeatable, scalable GTM playbook as we launch city by city. This is a high-urgency role at an 18-person team sprinting toward a Series A in the fall, backed by Forerunner, NFX, and Pear VC.
What will you be doing?
- Building and refining a repeatable go-to-market playbook for launching Known in new cities (San Diego, LA, New York, Chicago, and beyond)
- Organizing the GTM motion writ large — budgets, partnerships, launch timelines, and creative strategies both on-the-ground and digital
- Tracking growth metrics and optimizing city-level launch performance
- Managing or overseeing UGC creators and partnership channels
- Traveling with the team for 2-3 week launch sprints in new markets
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, United States
Experience
2+ years
Funding
Total raised
$9.7M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
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.