Persana AI is on a mission to redefine go-to-market execution in the AI era — and we’re looking for a Founding GTM & Growth Leader to join us at the ground floor. This is a hybrid role blending high-impact sales execution with strategic ownership of growth initiatives, user acquisition, funnel optimization, and scalable GTM systems. You’ll help shape everything from positioning and pipeline to experiments and virality.
🔍 About Persana AI
Persana AI is transforming work using the power of generative AI, predictive analytics, and real-time buyer intelligence. Our platform automates what used to take entire teams — from research and personalization to outreach and prioritization.
Key innovations:
Backed by Y Combinator, Stage 2 Capital, Race Capital, and others, we're scaling fast and building with top-tier talent.
You’ll be the tip of the spear across sales, growth, and early customer success. This is a full-stack GTM role where you’ll experiment, iterate, and execute at speed.
You’re a hybrid: part sales closer, part growth hacker, part product whisperer. You’re not afraid to cold email a CMO in the morning and spin up a funnel experiment in the afternoon.
You likely have:
If you're a growth-obsessed builder who thrives on ambiguity, is excited by the frontier of AI and GTM, and wants to make outsized impact — this is your rocketship. 🧠💥
Persana AI | The Agent Layer for Modern GTM Teams
AI Superpowered Sales & GTM Intelligence — built on autonomous agents
AI agents that research, enrich, and engage your best prospects — autonomously, not just automated.
The Shift from Tools to Agents: Your GTM stack is fragmented. Multiple enrichment providers. Workflow tools with hard limits. Manual triggers. Disconnected data. Persana consolidates it all into one agentic platform that thinks, learns, and executes — 24/7.
What Persana Does: 🔍 Multi-Source Intelligence – 100+ data sources tracking funding, hiring, tech changes, real-time intent signals, waterfall data for finding emails, phone numbers and more 🤖 Autonomous Execution – Run complex workflows across 100K+ prospects without manual triggers or platform limits 🧠Continuous Learning – AI that adapts based on what actually converts to pipeline, not predefined rules ⚡ Native CRM Integration – Bi-directional sync with Salesforce, HubSpot, and your entire GTM stack
Why Teams Choose Persana:
Replace fragmented point solutions with one autonomous platform
Results Customers See: âś“ 95% increase in qualified pipeline âś“ 65% faster sales cycles âś“ 3+ weeks per month reclaimed from manual work âś“ 30% higher conversion rates
The Technology:
Trained on 700M+ contacts and 200M+ companies, and 100+ data sources. Multi-agent architecture combining research, enrichment, and execution. Proprietary embeddings fine-tuned for GTM use cases.
The Team:
Built by LinkedIn engineering veterans who scaled systems to billions of users. Backed by Y Combinator, Dharmesh Shah, Race Capital, and Stage 2 Capital.
🚀 Join 15,000+ GTM professionals using agents to boost their revenue → persana.ai
Salary
$75,000 - $120,000
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Experience
1+ years
Total raised
$2.8M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.