Growth Operations Lead, Contributor Supply

San Mateo, CA (On-site)

$140K/yr – $160K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end–to–end contributor growth across languages and locales, focusing on funnel optimization and quality supply.

  • Scale acquisition channels from paid to communities and partnerships.
  • Improve onboarding and activation while guarding against low-quality or fraudulent signups.
  • Build repeatable locale and category playbooks to drive consistent contributor flow.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own contributor growth across priority languages, locales, and contributor profiles.
  • Build and manage acquisition channels including paid ads, UGC, influencer marketing, referrals, communities, agencies, universities, and gig platforms.
  • Design and run experiments to improve the funnel from landing page visit → signup → qualification → first approved task → repeat contribution.
  • Develop localized growth playbooks for different languages, countries, and contributor segments.
  • Create and optimize referral programs that drive high-quality contributor growth without encouraging low-quality or fraudulent signups.
  • Work with creators, micro-influencers, community leaders, and partners to recruit contributors at scale.
  • Track and improve key metrics such as cost per qualified contributor, cost per approved audio hour, qualification rate, activation rate, retention, and referral conversion.
  • Partner with operations and QA teams to understand contributor quality, rejection reasons, fraud patterns, and supply gaps.
  • Write and test contributor-facing messaging, landing pages, onboarding flows, and campaign creative.
  • Identify bottlenecks in contributor onboarding and work with product / ops to reduce friction.

Requirements

  • 2–6+ years of experience in growth, marketplace operations, creator growth, supply acquisition, performance marketing, or growth operations.
  • Experience growing the supply side of a marketplace, creator platform, gig platform, contributor network, or high-volume contractor platform.
  • Strong analytical ability; comfortable working with funnel metrics, CAC, cohorts, spreadsheets, dashboards, and experiment design.
  • Hands-on experience with at least two of the following: paid acquisition, influencer / UGC marketing, referral programs, community growth, partnerships, lifecycle marketing, or outbound sourcing.
  • Strong execution ability; you are willing to personally launch campaigns, contact creators, write copy, analyze data, and iterate quickly.
  • Good judgment around contributor quality, fraud, incentives, and marketplace trust.
  • Clear written communication and strong copywriting instincts.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and limited structure.

Preferred

  • Experience with AI data, data annotation, audio data, speech data, transcription, voice acting, creator platforms, or crowdsourcing.
  • Experience recruiting contributors internationally or across multiple languages / locales.
  • Experience working with voice actors, podcasters, narrators, linguists, students, or online creator communities.
  • Experience with TikTok, Meta, Google, Reddit, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, or other community-driven acquisition channels.
  • Experience building referral or ambassador programs.
  • Experience at a marketplace or contributor platform such as Scale AI, Surge AI, Snorkel, David AI, Mercor, Appen, Turing, Outlier, Remotasks, DataAnnotation, Upwork, Fiverr, DoorDash, Uber, Instacart, Cambly, Preply, or similar companies.
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Founded in 2025
17 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.8%
Direct
55.3%
Referral
14%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~17

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$3.5M
Last Raise
$3M
Seed, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2025
    Seed • $3M
  • Jun 2025
    Pre Seed • $500K