About the role

Openmart is an SF-based, YC-backed startup building a modern database of local businesses and the tools around it. Our customers include DoorDash, Whatnot, and Alibaba.

We’re looking for a Growth Lead who wants to build and scale growth from the ground up. This is a strong fit for someone who is product-minded, highly scrappy, and excited to run experiments across acquisition, activation, and distribution.

What you’ll do

Own growth strategy and execution across key channels
Run fast experiments to improve user acquisition, activation, and conversion
Identify growth hacks and high-leverage distribution opportunities
Promote Openmart across social media and help grow our presence online
Create and test content, messaging, and campaigns that drive awareness and user growth
Help shape Openmart’s brand and positioning in the market

What we’re looking for

Strong product sense and judgment
AI-native and excited to use new tools to move faster
High ownership and willingness to move quickly
Comfortable getting hands-on across growth, distribution, experimentation, and user acquisition
Ideally 1–2 years of experience, though we’re also open to exceptional new grads
Active on X/Twitter, or generally plugged into the startup and builder community online

This role is ideal for someone who wants to operate with a lot of ownership and help define growth at an early-stage company.

About Openmart

We are Openmart and we are creating the world’s largest live directory of local businesses. We help sales professionals query millions of unstructured business data like websites, product catalogs, reviews and socials.

Both of our founders are located in Foster City and we work in a loft where Richard lives in. Both of us have dogs and have a very dog-friendly office!

Team

Richard

Richard was a senior software engineer at Cruise working on ML. Then joined as founding engineer at Graft, funded by NEA and GV where he trained and finetuned large-language models.
Built an AI agent as weekend project that got on to GitHub trending projects

Kathryn

First product manager at Databento, which was funded by Redpoint venture which sells market data API’s.
Previously was on various growth teams at Pinterest and ran hundreds of A/B testings.
She also runs a DTC tea brand where she experienced the problem that led to the idea of Openmart We’ve known each other at Pinterest back in 2019 and have been good friends ever since. Openmart’s idea stems from our founder’s own pain points. Kathryn faced GTM challenges while launching her beverage brand trying to find great local business leads.