Founding Growth Marketer

Builders can design agents, write skills, connect MCP servers, train experts, run evaluations, use their own models, and deploy on their own compute.\n\nSurogate combines no-code agent building, cloud execution, autonomous multi-agent workflows, integrations, monitoring, skills, knowledge bases, MCP servers, custom models, fine-tuning, datasets, evaluation, and bring-your-own-compute infrastructure.\n\nWe are looking for a growth hacker who can turn this into a repeatable growth engine.\n\nThe Role\nWe need a hands-on growth hacker who can take Surogate from “powerful product” to “obvious must-try product” for creators, consultants, freelancers, agencies, developers, AI builders, and small businesses.\n\nYou will own the full growth loop: positioning, acquisition, activation, experiments, content, community, lifecycle, referrals, onboarding, and conversion. This is not a corporate marketing role. You will ship experiments every week, talk to users, build landing pages, write copy, launch campaigns, analyze funnels, and find the channels that produce real activated users.\n\nThe right person understands AI tools, SaaS funnels, PLG, technical audiences, creator-led growth, and scrappy distribution.

You should be comfortable selling both the simple promise — “multiply yourself with cloud agents” — and the technical depth behind the product: skills, experts, MCP, fine-tuning, evaluations, BYO models, and agent monetization.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nOwn Surogate’s growth strategy from first touch to activated usage, including traffic, signups, onboarding, agent creation, first successful run, repeat usage, paid conversion, and agent monetization.\nBuild and run rapid experiments across SEO, founder-led content, technical content, X/LinkedIn, Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt, YouTube, newsletters, communities, cold outreach, partnerships, templates, and referral loops.\nCreate high-converting landing pages for specific use cases such as AI receptionist agents, sales qualification agents, customer support agents, research agents, recruiter agents, freelancer workflow agents, content operations agents, and developer automation agents.\nTurn Surogate’s use cases into acquisition assets: templates, “build an agent for X” tutorials, demo videos, benchmark posts, comparison pages, monetization playbooks, and niche-specific campaigns.\nDrive activation by improving the path from signup to “my first useful agent.” This includes onboarding flows, email sequences, in-app prompts, templates, docs-to-product journeys, and user education.\nWork with the product and engineering team to identify friction in the funnel, especially around agent creation, skills, knowledge bases, MCP servers, channels, monetization, and custom model workflows.\nBuild growth loops around Surogate’s strongest product mechanics: agents that can be sold to customers, templates that can be reused across niches, public agent pages, Stripe-powered monetization, and builder/operator workflows. Surogate already supports charging end users for public agents through Stripe Connect on eligible plans.\nRun analytics across the full funnel: acquisition channel, signup quality, activation rate, agent creation rate, first run success, retained usage, paid conversion, monetization adoption, and expansion.\nInterview users weekly and translate what you learn into sharper positioning, better onboarding, better campaigns, and more useful product growth ideas.\nBuild a repeatable growth system, not one-off campaigns.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\n\nIn the first 30 days, you understand the product deeply, map the core user segments, audit the funnel, identify the strongest acquisition wedges, and launch the first batch of growth experiments.\nIn the first 60 days, you have launched multiple use-case landing pages, improved onboarding, shipped content and community experiments, and produced clear data on which channels and messages create activated users.\nIn the first 90 days, you have one or more repeatable growth loops working: for example, a niche template strategy, a creator/agency monetization playbook, a developer content engine, a community campaign, or a partner/referral channel that reliably produces signups and active agents.\n\nYou Might Be a Fit If\n\nYou have grown an early-stage SaaS, AI, developer tool, marketplace, automation product, or PLG product before.\nYou are comfortable with messy early-stage growth: writing copy, building pages, analyzing data, talking to users, launching experiments, and changing direction quickly.\nYou understand modern AI workflows well enough to explain agents, tools, knowledge bases, MCP, model routing, fine-tuning, and evaluations in plain language.\nYou can write clearly and persuasively for multiple audiences: non-technical operators, freelancers, agencies, small business owners, developers, and AI builders.\nYou think in funnels, loops, activation events, retention cohorts, and conversion rates — not just impressions and engagement.\nYou are technical enough to work with docs, APIs, GitHub repos, product analytics, and no-code/low-code tooling.\nYou are creative enough to find weird, asymmetric growth channels before they become crowded.\nYou have strong taste in positioning. You can turn “hosted autonomous agent runtime with skills, MCP, training, evaluation, and monetization” into a message a buyer immediately understands.\n\nNice to Have\n\nExperience growing AI agents, automation tools, developer platforms, no-code tools, creator tools, or B2B SaaS.\nExperience with Product Hunt launches, SEO content systems, founder-led social, technical tutorials, community-led growth, affiliate/referral programs, or marketplace growth.\nExperience with tools like PostHog, GA4, Search Console, Ahrefs/Semrush, Webflow/Framer, Stripe, HubSpot, Customer.io, Resend, Supabase, or similar.\nExperience creating templates, playbooks, demo agents, onboarding flows, lifecycle emails, or product-led sales motions.\nExperience selling to freelancers, agencies, creators, consultants, small businesses, or developer communities.\n\nWhat You’ll Own\n\nAcquisition experiments\nActivation and onboarding\nLanding pages and conversion copy\nUse-case campaigns\nSEO and programmatic content ideas\nLifecycle emails and retention campaigns\nCommunity and launch campaigns\nReferral and partner experiments\nProduct analytics and funnel reporting\nUser interviews and positioning insights\nGrowth roadmap and weekly experiment cadence\n\nExample Projects You Could Work On\n\nLaunch “Build an AI receptionist agency without code” as a complete campaign: landing page, template, demo agent, onboarding emails, video walkthrough, and outreach list.\nCreate a developer growth loop around skills, MCP servers, and expert fine-tuning, using Surogate’s builder loop: build, observe, train, redeploy.\nTurn agent monetization into a creator/agency acquisition wedge: “build once, deploy to 20 businesses, charge monthly.”\nBuild comparison pages for “Surogate vs.

no-code chatbot builders,” “Surogate vs. LangChain DIY,” and “Surogate vs. custom AI automation agencies.”\nCreate a library of niche agent templates for recruiters, real estate agents, consultants, e-commerce sellers, support teams, and content teams.\nDesign an activation experiment that gets new users from signup to a useful deployed agent in under 10 minutes.