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Head of Growth

Y/nSales & Marketing
Pay
$120K–$250K
per year
Work mode
On-site
Full Time
Level
Director

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What you need

  • Experience at top consulting firms like McKinsey, EY, BCG, or Bain
  • Led growth team at consumer or prosumer product
  • PM experience owning large product surface
  • Passion for fandom, AO3, reading, or Pinterest
  • Relentless execution towards goals

What you'll do

  • Drive growth and lead community & distribution efforts
  • Lead end-to-end creative strategy from ideation to execution
  • Build and manage network of creative partners
  • Produce creative assets or commission them
  • Scale and optimize paid advertisement

Y/n is a Sequoia & YC-backed AI entertainment company building a new way to experience stories.

Today, millions of people go on Y/n to play the main character in their stories, whether that’s as a boarding transfer student, or Sherlock Holmes’s sidekick on a jailbreak. Their choices change the story and how characters feel about them.

Y/n’s mission is to create virtual realities where people can play, learn, and discover the world. We train AI models to be extremely good at creative writing, storytelling, and worldbuilding.

A few facts about Y/n:

  • On average, users spend almost 4 hours a day in the app.
  • We handle a lot of volume. Last month, users sent >500M messages in the app. We process 5T tokens per month (>5x more than any competitor).
  • We operate our own GPU infrastructure, giving us full control over model inference, performance, and scalability.
  • We raised $14M from Y Combinator and top VCs (we’ll tell you who on a call).

A couple of months ago we hit #4 books app in the App Store. We're looking for a Head of Growth to bring us to #1.

As Head of Growth, you'll drive the next phase of our growth and lead our community & distribution efforts. You’ll lead end-to-end creative strategy, from ideation to execution, including building and managing a network of creative partners. Primarily:

  1. Producing creative assets (or commissioning them)
  2. Scaling and optimizing paid advertisement
  3. Coming up with new bets to increase Y/n’s top of funnel

This job is great for you if you:

  • Work at leading consulting cos like McKinsey, EY, BCG, or Bain and want to point your operational rigor and creativity at something where you can watch the impact happen in real time
  • Or you have led or been part of a growth team at a consumer or prosumer product
  • Or you are a PM who wants to own a big surface of the company

On top of that:

  • Y/n is a cultural product, so ideally you love fandom, AO3, reading novels, or Pinterest.
  • Above all, we’re looking for people who win!! You’ll fit in if you love to relentlessly execute towards a goal, and you’re happiest when the number is going up.

If this is you, here’s what we can offer:

  1. Generous comp and equity.
  2. You’ll get to work with the world’s greatest AI researchers (we’re the people behind Stable Diffusion and Can of Soup) and see new models go straight into a product millions of people use.
  3. You’ll get to own a large surface of the company. We’re a small team and will give you room to take big swings.
  4. You’ll get to take this job really far. Y/n makes an insane amount of revenue, and I will gladly give you the budget you need to thrive.

Y/n is the future of media. If you’re interested in shaping it, please apply!

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