Senior Growth Lead

The Role

We’re looking for a rare operator - someone who can walk in, figure out what needs to happen, build the plan, and execute it. No playbook required. You’ll own growth initiatives end-to-end across recruiting, reactivation, and new audience acquisition at Surge AI. You’ll work across functions, bring structure to ambiguous problems, and drive outcomes without hand-holding.

What You’ll Own

• GM: You’ll own acquisition, reactivation, and retention efforts across contributor pools, with a relentless focus on quality. Partner with an Operational Owner to ensure volume and speed targets are met- consistently.
• Platform engagement: Own the strategy and execution for increasing the amount of work done on the Surge platform - identifying levers, running experiments, and scaling what works.
• Workforce recruiting: Define and lead the approach for acquiring specialized contributors - accountants, coders, and other skilled workers - through marketing and non-marketing channels (i.e. partnerships, conferences, community groups) alike.
• Reactivation: Build and own the strategy to re-engage lapsed workforce segments, from diagnosis through execution and iteration.
• Cross-functional project management: Manage assigned initiatives from kickoff to outcome, aligning stakeholders across teams without losing momentum.
• Channel experimentation: Test and learn across paid, organic, partnerships, and non-marketing levers for each problem you own. Know what’s working and double down.

What We’re Looking for

Required

• Strong data and analytical skills: You make decisions from data. You can pull your own numbers, build models, identify trends, and communicate their meaning to any audience. This is a hard requirement.
• AI / LLM knowledge: You have familiarity with the AI ecosystem - how models are built, evaluated, and improved - and can speak credibly to the space.
• Paid and organic channel experience: You’ve run campaigns across both paid and organic channels and understand the tradeoffs between them.
• Exceptional communication: You write clearly, speak concisely, and can align stakeholders across functions without anyone feeling out of the loop.
• Comfort with ambiguity: You don’t wait for a perfect brief. You scope the problem, form a hypothesis, and get moving. You update as you learn.
• Ownership mentality: You track your work, manage your deadlines, and don’t let things slip. You close the loop without being asked.
• Fast-paced by default: You’re energized (not drained) by a moving target. Changing priorities don’t derail you - they’re just part of the job.
• Cross-functional fluency: You know how to work with product, ops, engineering, and leadership. You build trust quickly across teams.
• Senior-level experience: You’ve owned something end-to-end before. You know what “good” looks like because you’ve built it.

Nice to Have

• Coding ability or strong technical literacy
• Two-sided marketplace or platform experience