Founding Growth Product Manager
Job Description
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Founding Growth Product Manager
Location: San Francisco, CA
Company Stage of Funding: Series A (Venture-Backed)
Office Type: Hybrid (In-Person Collaboration Required)
Salary: $120,000 – $200,000 (Commensurate with Experience)
Company Description
We’re working with a cutting-edge, AI-native mental healthcare startup backed by top venture capital firms to find a Founding Growth Product Manager. This company is revolutionizing psychiatric care by combining clinical excellence with advanced AI-driven infrastructure. With over $6M raised and a strong runway, they’ve achieved $1M+ in ARR and serve thousands of patients through a high-leverage team.
This is a unique opportunity to have a founding-level impact and shape the DNA of a fast-growing digital health startup that is solving meaningful problems at scale.
What You Will Do
As the Founding Growth Product Manager, you’ll be the architect of the company’s growth engine, owning strategy and execution across the full funnel—from acquisition to long-term retention. You’ll be building and iterating on systems, analytics, attribution models, and growth experiments that directly impact patients’ access to care.
Key Responsibilities:
* Funnel Design & Optimization: Model, analyze, and optimize the full patient journey. Implement event tracking across onboarding and engagement flows.
* Analytics Stack Ownership: Build and manage a modern analytics stack (e.g., PostHog, Segment, GA4, Amplitude). Ensure high-quality client/server-side tracking.
* Attribution & Experimentation: Develop attribution systems that connect acquisition channels to CAC and LTV. Run A/B tests across the funnel.
* KPI Dashboarding: Define and centralize core business metrics—conversion rates, CAC, provider utilization, and more.
* Cross-Functional Execution: Work directly with the founding team, engineers, clinicians, and designers to ship high-leverage growth features.
* Success Metrics: Improve “touchless” conversion, decrease time-to-value, increase retention, and scale to 10,000+ retained patients.
Ideal Candidate Background
* 3+ years of experience in growth-focused product roles, ideally at consumer startups (bonus for digital health).
* Experience designing growth experiments and proving results through analytics.
* Technical fluency in product instrumentation, analytics tools, and data pipelines.
* Demonstrated ability to take full ownership—from ideation to launch—of growth initiatives.
* Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and clinical teams.
Preferred
* Background in digital health, telehealth, or HIPAA-compliant environments.
* Experience with tools like PostHog, Segment, Amplitude, Mixpanel.
* Passion for mental healthcare and patient-first design.
* Proven impact scaling early-stage products to large user bases or revenue thresholds.
* Familiarity with AI/ML in consumer-facing applications.
Compensation and Benefits
* Salary: $120,000 – $200,000 (based on experience)
* Equity: 0.20% – 0.80%
* Health Benefits: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
* Time Off: Flexible PTO policy
* Work Setup: Hybrid (in-person with SF-based engineering team)
* Visa Support: TN, H1B transfer, and new H1B sponsorships available
* Impact: Help shape the future of mental health care and improve lives nationwide
