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Founding Growth Product Manager

Remotive · New York, NY, USA · Remote ·

Job type:
Full Time


Role Description

You're the person who looks at a funnel and sees money on the floor. You write your own SQL, you write your own PRDs, and you've shipped enough in-product growth surfaces to know which ones move numbers and which ones look good in a deck. You're equal parts product manager, analyst, and editor. You ship every week.

The product works. Users who stick, love it. The question is whether we can turn more of them into long-term customers. Activation, retention, and monetization are where the next chapter of growth gets unlocked. Right now those surfaces are getting attention from the founders and engineering, but nobody owns them end-to-end. That has to change.

You'll be our founding Growth PM. No PM above you. No playbook to inherit. You build the engine: how we form hypotheses, how we instrument them, how we ship A/Bs, how we decide what scales and what dies. You have the budget and the freedom to move fast.

What You'll Actually Do

Own activation, retention, and monetization across the entire user journey.

Run the experiment loop: onboarding, integration activation, pricing and packaging, churn-recovery, in-product surfaces.

Form hypotheses, instrument them, ship tests with engineering, read data, and decide what scales, what kills, and what ships next.

Inherit a pipeline already in flight: onboarding reorder, auto-connect, installer drip nudges, credit top-up pricing tests, dashboard v1.

Write your own queries. PostHog and HogQL fluent.

Write your own PRDs and microcopy. Live in Linear or Jira.

Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the co-founders and engineering.

Personally Execute

Activation funnel instrumentation and cohort analysis.

Integration-drop recovery iteration.

In-product activation surfaces.

Retention cohort work — first priority.

Charge-failure recovery flow.

Expansion triggers.

How You'll Know It's Working

30 days: Full activation and retention funnel instrumented. Three experiment specs written and ready. Retention baseline locked. Charge-failure recovery scoped.

60 days: Integration-drop recovery v2 shipped. First charge-failure recovery flow live. One expansion trigger live.

90 days: Integration drop and charge failure both moved. Four-week retention trending up — target 22%+ by 90 days. Two expansion triggers live.

Qualifications

4–8 years as a Growth PM at a PLG SaaS company or mobile gaming, with ARR growth you can actually attribute to your work.

SQL and PostHog/HogQL fluent.

Experience shipping in-product growth surfaces with engineering.

Ability to write your own PRDs and live in Linear or Jira.

Opinionated on integration, OAuth, and auth-funnel drop patterns.

Founder mentality — thrive with ambiguity, move fast, and figure things out.

Requirements

Remote, Warsaw, or Munich. Work fully remote, or join us in our Warsaw or Munich office.

Travel for offsites and key moments.

Benefits

Competitive salary.

Meaningful equity.

Ownership that only exists at this stage.

Company Description

This is a rare window. The product works. The market is pulling. The team is small enough that what you do next week will be live in production next week. That doesn't last forever. Right now, it's still true.