$100K–$130K base + competitive equity. Compensation scales with experience — the team can flex higher for the right person.
We are looking for a Founding Growth hire with 2-5 years of experience to own and operationalize Known's go-to-market motion as we scale across the US. You're someone who's done growth at a consumer startup — ideally one that's made the Series A to Series B leap — and you thrive as a chief organizer, not just a strategist. You'll work directly with our co-founder to build a repeatable, scalable GTM playbook as we launch city by city. This is a high-urgency role at an 18-person team sprinting toward a Series A in the fall, backed by Forerunner, NFX, and Pear VC.
What will you be doing?
Building and refining a repeatable go-to-market playbook for launching Known in new cities (San Diego, LA, New York, Chicago, and beyond)
Organizing the GTM motion writ large — budgets, partnerships, launch timelines, and creative strategies both on-the-ground and digital
Tracking growth metrics and optimizing city-level launch performance
Managing or overseeing UGC creators and partnership channels
Traveling with the team for 2-3 week launch sprints in new markets
Known is an AI-powered matchmaking company on a mission to empower humanity by applying general intelligence to human connection. Unlike traditional dating apps that rely on swiping, Known takes a fundamentally different approach — users join by telling their life story through a conversation with an AI voice agent (averaging 27 minutes), giving the platform uniquely intimate context to make meaningful matches.
Known handles everything from finding your match to planning your date, removing the friction from the user and transferring it to the platform. The result: real dates with proven chemistry, no swiping required.
Culture & Team
Known is a tight-knit team of 18 based in Cow Hollow, San Francisco. The company is engineering-heavy, founded by builders behind some of the most widely used AI-driven consumer products including Uber Eats, Uber, and Afterpay. The culture blends technical excellence with the social energy you'd expect from a consumer dating brand — rooftop cocktail nights, team off-sites, and a genuinely fun, young environment where everyone is social and friendly.
Backed by a $10M seed round from Forerunner Ventures, NFX, and Pear VC, Known is sprinting toward a Series A and actively launching in new cities across the US. The company has already amassed 10,000+ users in San Francisco and is expanding to San Diego, LA, New York, and Chicago.
Team size
18 employeesFounded
Website
www.known.comTotal funding
$10MCompany locations
Known is a team of 18 working together in-person in a beautiful office space in Cow Hollow, San Francisco. The team is engineering-heavy, with senior and experienced technical talent from companies like Uber Eats, Uber, and Afterpay.
Despite being deeply technical, the culture is balanced with the social, creative energy of a consumer lifestyle brand. The team is young, fun, and genuinely social — as you'd expect from people building a dating product. Everyone works with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
What it's like to work here:
- In-person, 5 days a week in Cow Hollow, SF
- Rooftop cocktail nights and team off-sites
- Launch sprints where the team travels to new cities together (renting houses for multi-week pushes)
- Collaborative, fast-moving environment sprinting toward Series A
- Office dog, free lunch, dinner, coffees, and great snacks
Known is a matchmaking platform that uses AI to create meaningful romantic connections without swiping. Here's how it works:
- Tell your story: New users join Known by having a conversation with an AI voice agent — on average, users talk for 27 minutes, sharing who they are and what they're looking for.
- We find your match: Using the uniquely intimate context from your conversation, Known's AI identifies compatible matches with proven chemistry.
- We plan your date: Known handles the logistics — from setting you up to planning where and when you'll meet in person.
The result is a fundamentally different dating experience: the friction is removed from the user and transferred to the platform. No swiping, no endless messaging — just real dates with real people.
Known is currently live in San Francisco with 10,000+ users and actively expanding to San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.