Growth Lead | Paid Acquisition + SEO/AEO

AnswerThis (YC F25) · US, SF preferred · Full-time $150,000 base + commission + equity You've already scaled paid acquisition and SEO. Now you want your next chapter to help accelerate science. AnswerThis has helped over 600,000 researchers accelerate their research by more than 10 times by automating research workflows. We're hiring someone to help many more researchers discover what they can do with it. We're looking for a marketer who has turned paid ads into a substantial source of customers, ideally personally managing more than $500,000/month in ad spend. You've also built SEO into a meaningful acquisition channel and can show the business it brought in. You still launch the campaigns and ship the pages yourself. And you want to work at the frontier of AEO: how people discover and choose products through AI answers.

The work

Scale paid acquisition.
Run campaigns across Google, Meta, LinkedIn and other channels that earn their place. Own creative tests, targeting, landing pages, tracking and budget decisions. Know how acquisition cost changes as you increase spend.
Grow organic acquisition.
Ship useful content, comparison pages, tools and technical SEO improvements. Connect that work to activated researchers and paying customers.
Build AEO early.
Test how researchers discover AnswerThis through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI answers and other emerging surfaces. Find what brings qualified users, implement it and measure the result.
Improve the funnel.
Follow people from first visit through signup, activation and paid conversion. Fix the campaign, page or experience that is holding growth back.
Find the next channel.
Discover opportunities before they become obvious to everyone else. Get an experiment live, learn quickly and scale what works.

What you bring

Experience scaling acquisition across multiple paid platforms with personal management of more than $500,000/month in ad spend.
Proven success in substantially scaling acquisition through SEO with measurable business impact.
Comfortable working directly in ad accounts, analytics, landing pages and automation tools; capable of writing copy, fixing tracking launching tests independently.
Use AI to expand building and testing capabilities while carefully checking outputs.

Culture

Mission-driven to accelerate scientific research by reducing repetitive work for researchers.
Ownership mindset with limited resources; initiative-taking and adaptability valued.
Close collaboration with founders and product team with ownership of acquisition results.

Application

Submit profile plus one paid acquisition result and one SEO result including company baseline timeframe outcome personal implementation details; for paid include monthly budget platforms. Include location and availability for full-time move. Target hire date by September 20.