Growth Operations Lead
Quick facts
- Pay
- $170,000 - $250,000 per year
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Experience
- 4–8 years
- Skills
- SQL
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
About the company
Our client is an AI research and data company focused exclusively on video. The company combines exabyte-scale video infrastructure, novel video-understanding techniques, and diverse data sources to create high-quality datasets for frontier AI labs, Fortune 100 companies, and fast-growing generative AI startups. Founded in 2022 and backed by leading venture investors, the team has grown rapidly to approximately 40 people.
The role and why it matters
You will be the founding growth hire for the company's expert-contributor platform, reporting directly to the COO. This is a zero-to-one operating role for someone who can acquire and activate contributors, build supply-side partnerships, improve retention, and turn funnel data into repeatable growth systems across physical AI and media-generation verticals.
What you'll do
- Build and own the contributor-platform growth engine from the ground up.
- Design and run experiments to acquire expert contributors, improve signup-to-activation conversion, and retain top talent.
- Develop partnerships with studios, creator networks, expert communities, and specialist firms.
- Work hands-on with funnel data, dashboards, cohorts, and acquisition economics to identify bottlenecks and scale winning channels.
- Run paid campaigns and creative acquisition programs with meaningful budget and autonomy.
- Build lifecycle messaging, outbound, CRM, and workflow-automation systems that support contributor growth.
- Translate contributor feedback and experiment results into improvements to onboarding, communications, incentives, product, and operations.
- Present clear recommendations and results to company leadership under close strategic review.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 4 to 8 years of experience in growth marketing, growth operations, marketplace operations, or a closely related role.
- Direct experience building a growth program or marketplace supply motion from zero to one.
- Hands-on expertise with funnel data, cohort analysis, dashboards, experimentation, and acquisition economics.
- A record of designing growth experiments, measuring results, and scaling the channels that work.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain decisions under probing.
- Creativity, resourcefulness, high ownership, and comfort operating in ambiguity at a fast-moving startup.
- Willingness to work on-site in San Francisco five days per week or relocate.
Bonus points
- Experience growing a contributor platform, creator network, expert community, or marketplace supply side.
- Experience running paid campaigns through platforms such as Meta Ads or Google Ads.
- Background in B2B SaaS, consumer marketplaces, AI data, or adjacent contributor-driven businesses.
- Familiarity with CRM, outbound, lifecycle messaging, workflow automation, and SQL.
Benefits
Compensation, location, and benefits
- $170K-$200K base salary, with flexibility up to approximately $250K for exceptional candidates.
- Competitive equity and comprehensive benefits.
- Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco five days per week.
- Meals and rides home are covered.
- Eligible existing visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers, may be supported.
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Raydar in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists (SOC 13-1161) — estimated from the job title.
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This role doesn't clearly match a profession on the USMCA (TN) list.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level IV (fully competent)Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $69,576 | ~15% |
| Level II | $100,027 | ~31% |
| Level III | $130,458 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $160,909 | ~61% |
This job pays $170,000–$250,000 a year — that's Level IV (fully competent). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level IV registration gets 4 entries; estimated selection chance about 61% — better than average.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.