Growth Lead

MLabs

Growth Lead to shape growth strategies for a venture-backed startup in digital payments. Collaborating directly with founders to drive user engagement and product adoption.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

We’re hiring a Growth Lead for an early-stage, venture-backed startup building in the future of digital payments and consumer finance.
This is a true 0 → 1 role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, understands internet culture, and knows how to turn attention into growth.
You’ll work directly with founders to take a product from launch to its first highly engaged users through experimentation, community, partnerships, and unconventional growth tactics.
The product sits at the intersection of payments, fintech, and consumer internet, with a strong focus on usability, virality, and real-world adoption.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience growing consumer products from zero to first users
Strong background in consumer app marketing, ideally within payments, remittance, fintech, marketplaces, or high-engagement apps
Hands-on experience owning acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and repeat usage
Strong funnel thinking and analytical ability
Experience designing and running rapid growth experiments
A highly operational mindset — willing to spend time in communities, replying to users, testing ideas, and executing directly
A deep understanding of internet culture, attention-driven marketing, and how products spread online
Spanish or Portuguese fluency is strongly preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Permissionless culture with direct access to founders
Opportunity to shape growth from the ground up
Strong autonomy and rapid decision-making
Backing from top-tier investors
Significant upside through equity and long-term growth opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

consumer app marketingacquisitionactivationretentionreferralrepeat usagefunnel thinkinganalytical abilitygrowth experimentsinternet culture

Soft Skills

operational mindsetcommunity engagementuser interactiontesting ideasexecution