We are partnering with an innovative venture-backed technology company that is building a consumer-focused product with global ambitions. They are looking for their first dedicated Growth Lead to drive user acquisition, community engagement, and early-stage growth.
This is an opportunity to join a high-calibre founding team and take ownership of growth strategy and execution from day one.
The Opportunity
As the first growth hire, you will be responsible for building awareness, acquiring users, and creating scalable growth systems. Approximately 50% of the role will involve direct engagement with online communities across platforms such as Reddit, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook groups, and digital nomad networks.
You will have significant autonomy to test ideas, run experiments, and identify growth opportunities without relying on an established playbook.
Ideal Candidate
You are highly entrepreneurial, analytical, and execution-focused. You enjoy testing ideas, engaging directly with users, building communities, and finding creative ways to generate demand.
You are comfortable balancing strategy and hands-on execution, and you thrive in fast-moving environments where learning and iteration happen quickly.
Requirements
- Proven experience driving growth for consumer products, ideally in fintech, payments, remittance, marketplaces, social products, or other highly engaged consumer applications.
- Demonstrated success taking products from launch to meaningful early traction (e.g. 1,000+ active users).
- Strong understanding of acquisition funnels, activation, retention, referrals, and user lifecycle management.
- Experience running hands-on growth experiments and turning insights into measurable outcomes.
- Deep understanding of attention-driven marketing, community-led growth, viral loops, partnerships, creator ecosystems, and unconventional distribution channels.
- Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment with limited structure and high ownership.
- Fluent English required.
- Spanish or Portuguese fluency is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- What's on Offer
- Fully remote position.
- Competitive base compensation plus meaningful equity participation.
- Ownership of growth strategy and execution.
- Dedicated budget for freelancers, ambassadors, and growth initiatives.
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced founders and an exceptional international team.
- Significant career progression and leadership opportunities as the company scales.
Location
- Remote, with preference for candidates based in LATAM, North America, or Europe who can overlap with GMT-3 working hours.
Compensation
- $50,000 – $75,000 USD base salary plus equity.
Process
- Intro call (~15 mins)
- Interview (1-1.5h)
- Reference checks
- Contract work (10-30 days) - let’s ship something and have fun!
- Long-term contract
Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.
Commitment to Equality and Accessibility:
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Skills Required
- Proven experience driving growth for consumer products
- Experience in fintech, payments, remittance, marketplaces, social products or other highly engaged consumer applications
- Demonstrated success taking products from launch to meaningful early traction (e.g. 1,000+ active users)
- Strong understanding of acquisition funnels, activation, retention, referrals, and user lifecycle management
- Experience running hands-on growth experiments and turning insights into measurable outcomes
- Deep understanding of attention-driven marketing, community-led growth, viral loops, partnerships, creator ecosystems, and unconventional distribution channels
- Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment with limited structure and high ownership
- Fluent English
- Spanish or Portuguese fluency
- Ability to overlap with GMT-3 working hours (preference for candidates in LATAM, North America, or Europe)
What We Do
MLabs is a premier consultancy specializing in functional programming, particularly Haskell and Rust, as well as blockchain, AI, and full-stack development. They provide expert staff augmentation, project specification, implementation, and maintenance for mission-critical software development. The company bridges the gap between traditional finance and digital assets, focusing on enterprise blockchain solutions and simplifying multi-chain DeFi for financial institutions and fintechs through a unified API.
