Growth Startup Co-Founder

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Mechanism Ventures

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51 - 200 employees

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

💸 Finance

Description

• Company Description: Since 2019, Mechanism Ventures has been partnering with entrepreneurs to launch and scale ambitious companies. We brought together a world-class team of engineering, marketing, and business strategy professionals from places like Harvard, MIT, and Princeton to launch eleven companies with a 100% success rate in getting companies profitable within three years or less. • How do we do it? We work to identify and validate opportunities before creating every business. When we have a proven concept, we nurture growth by providing data-driven marketing expertise, investment, and strategic guidance to gain early traction then provide back-end business support to establish positive unit economics, profitability, and scale. • Our in-house experts are at the top of their fields and are here to provide world-class support in helping our startups get off the ground and scale. When it comes to launching and scaling companies, we don’t guess. We engineer. • Our track record speaks for itself. Our team has a track record of investing in and co-founding multiple companies with over $100M revenue, and we have a 100% success rate in achieving company profitability. • Job Description: The Growth Startup Co-Founder is Mechanism’s master architect for launching new companies. In this role, you will leverage your entrepreneurial experience and growth expertise to ideate, test, and lead the launch of new business ideas, aiming to bring them to sustained growth. • You will work closely with Mechanism’s leadership team, growth experts, designers, engineers, and operations specialists to identify new company ideas by leveraging our robust database of companies, third-party data, and experience launching start-ups; validate those business opportunities; then guide them toward scalable models. You will also work closely with Mechanism Leadership to identify the right long-term CEO for each company as we successfully transition ownership to them. • As the Growth Startup Co-Founder, you will collaborate heavily with Mechanism's leadership team and automation engineers to refine our company-building processes from ideation to hand-off by leveraging AI and other automation technologies. This will contribute to continuous improvement so that we can continue to launch companies at an accelerated rate.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial Background: A proven track record as a founder, co-founder, or early-stage team member of one or more growth-led companies. • Growth Experience: 5+ years of strategic and operational experience in Growth Marketing, focusing on launching and scaling early-stage companies. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in performance marketing on Google Ads and Meta Ads and CRO experience. • Operational Excellence: Demonstrate speed and quality in execution, effectively handle ambiguity, and approach problems with a test-and-learn mindset. You think in terms of hours and days rather than days and weeks. You must self-report progress regularly and ensure that speed does not compromise quality. • Strong Commercial Mindset: A clear understanding of the importance of profitability metrics as key performance indicators (KPIs). You recognize that the primary goal is to drive business profit, and these metrics are essential for measuring the success of our efforts. • Resourcefulness and Problem-Solving: Relentless resourcefulness, data-driven prioritization, decisive decision-making, and the ability to simplify complex problems. • Systems Mindset: Strong systems thinking with a first principles approach. The ideal candidate is proficient in leveraging technology and automation to streamline operations and enhance team efficiency across the portfolio. • Communication: You must have excellent oral and written communication skills and be highly responsive. You are comfortable collaborating with people from all walks of life and geographies. • Attention to Detail and Analytical Skills: Strong attention to detail and a data-driven approach are required. You are highly analytical and excel at making data-driven decisions that align with long-term business objectives, ensuring your work consistently supports the company’s profitability and success. • Proactive Continuous Improvement: Continuous self-improvement and being intellectually honest and coachable are essential. • Technical Proficiency: Mastery of Google Workspace products, Google Analytics 4, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and comfortable leveraging AI for Growth and operational problems. Additionally, you should be proficient with Klaviyo (or other ESP), Shopify, Webflow, and a third-party A/B testing tool.

Benefits

• Time Commitment: This role is full-time and will need to overlap with US ET for the majority of the workday. It is an exciting opportunity that demands a level of dedication beyond the standard 9 to 5. We need someone who's willing to go above and beyond to help us achieve our ambitious goals, and who's eager to put in the effort to make a real impact. • Location: We are fully remote – you can work wherever you’re most productive. We are unable to provide Visa or work permit sponsorship at this time. • Compensation: Our compensation packages are designed to make this your dream job for the short and long term. Each compensation package is tailored to suit your priorities and can include base, equity in the companies we help build, and performance bonus based on the success of our portfolio companies. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and an unlimited time off policy with a two-week minimum.