Listen Labs — Growth Associate

Type: Full-time | On-site | New York City, NY Compensation: $130,000–$170,000 base ($150,000–$200,000 OTE) + competitive equity Hiring count: 1 Visa sponsorship: None available Reports to: Head of Growth

Listen Labs is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours, not months. The product analyzes conversations, surfaces themes, and helps customers make faster, smarter product decisions. It is entirely product-led with viral distribution — interviews are shared with tens of thousands of viewers, fueling PLG, organic expansion, and daily inbound from Fortune 500s.

Founded: Not stated | Team size: ~30 | Total funding: Not stated (investors: Sequoia, Ribbit, Conviction, Evantic, AI Grant, Pear VC) Industry: AI, customer research / insights, B2B SaaS Website: listenlabs.ai Office: New York City

• Proven hypergrowth: $0 $12M run-rate in under a year, with daily inbound from Fortune 500s and enterprise customers including Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G.
• Top-tier backing: Sequoia, Ribbit, Conviction, Evantic, AI Grant, and Pear VC. Sequoia partner Bryan Schreier was the first investor in Qualtrics (a ~$12B company tackling similar problems).
• Caliber of team: Serial-entrepreneur founders with a prior AI exit; team talent from Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, Affirm, Bain, and Goldman Sachs, plus IOI/ICPC backgrounds.
• Career-defining seat: Work directly with the Head of Growth to scale Listen from $12M to nine-figure ARR, with end-to-end ownership and the chance to shape processes from scratch.

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Listen Labs is hiring a Growth Associate to work directly with the Head of Growth and help scale the company from $12M to nine-figure ARR. The role spans campaign execution, growth experimentation, events and conferences, operations and analytics, and product-led growth — cross-functional work with Growth, Sales, Product, Customer Success, and the founders. No task is too small when it helps move the company forward.

• →Campaign execution across email, LinkedIn, events, SEO/AEO, paid media, and outbound
• →Growth experimentation: rapid testing across acquisition, activation, and conversion funnels
• →Events and conferences: planning and executing conferences, dinners, webinars, and field marketing
• →Operations and analytics: track campaign performance, build reports, analyze funnel data
• →Product-led growth: collaborate with product and engineering on onboarding, lifecycle, referral, and viral growth initiatives

Tech stack: Not specified

• One of: (a) 1-2 years of growth experience + good school, OR (b) 1-3 years of finance/consulting + top-15 school (must be exceptional if no growth experience)
• Highly proactive and resourceful: figures things out quickly, jumps into unfamiliar problems
• Analytical and detail-oriented, but also creative and willing to test unconventional ideas
• Clear communicator who moves quickly and thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
• NYC 5 days a week in-person

• B2B SaaS experience
• Growth experimentation track record
• GTM systems experience
• Background in startups, particularly Sequoia-backed or comparable hypergrowth environments

• Mid-career operator with rigid scope expectations. This is a roll-up-sleeves Associate seat, not a Manager role.
• Pure marketing background without analytical rigor. Listen Labs needs both.
• Wants slow ramp or work-life-balance-first culture. The team grew $0 to $12M in under a year.

Salary$130,000–$170,000 base ($150,000–$200,000 OTE)EquityCompetitive (not specified)On-site policyNYC, 5 days/week in personVisa sponsorshipNone availableEmployment typeFull-timeLocationNew York City, NY

(Contrario Required Candidate Q&A — asked on the submission form / call)

1. Link to your LinkedIn profile
2. What's the most impressive thing you have done?
3. Are you based in the Bay Area or NYC?

Stage 1 — Pending Approval — Candidates awaiting initial approval. Stage 2 — Hiring Manager Interview Stage 3 — Take-Home Assignment Stage 4 — Onsite Stage 5 — Offer Extended Stage 6 — Candidate Hired — Candidate accepts and starts.