Founding Growth Engineer

About Disrupt.com

Disrupt.com is a venture builder operating between Dubai and Karachi with a $100M fund and ~600 people across cybersecurity, blockchain/DeFi, AI products, and DTC brands. We’ve exited Cloudways for $350M and are building the next wave of $100M+ companies.

This opportunity sits within a stealth, AI-native portfolio company building a product experience infrastructure layer for modern software businesses—transforming traditionally human-led product walkthroughs into intelligent, interactive, and self-serve user journeys. The platform enables instant access, precise narrative control, and scalable delivery of high-fidelity product experiences, directly improving activation, onboarding efficiency, and conversion velocity while eliminating reliance on sales bandwidth. The venture is led by a repeat founder with a distinguished track record of building and exiting technology companies, including a B2B InsurTech exit, recognition as Forbes 30 Under 30 MENA (2021), and raising ~$5M for a platform that generated ~$3M in policy sales—alongside multiple rapid build-and-exit cycles within weeks, reflecting exceptional execution speed and product intuition.

About the Role

We are hiring a Founding Growth Engineer — the first growth hire and dedicated growth co-founder for a Disrupt venture at MVP stage.

You join when the product works, but customers do not exist yet.

This role sits in a leadership triad:

• Co-Founder: what to build and why
• Tech Lead: how to build it
• Founding Growth Engineer: how to sell it and scale it

You are responsible for first revenue, GTM architecture, growth model, funnel systems, pod orchestration, and channel validation.

This is not a campaign management role.

If you need agencies, large teams, or long planning cycles to create traction, this role is not for you.

What You Will Do

• Build the growth model from scratch, working backward from MRR targets to daily channel inputs
• Find product-market-channel fit through rapid experimentation
• Own the full AAARRR funnel
• Close the first 10 customers within 90 days
• Build repeatable acquisition systems across paid, outbound, PLG, partnerships, content, and SEO
• Assemble and lead a cross-functional GTM pod
• Build AI-native workflows for outbound, landing pages, analytics, CRM automation, experimentation, and reporting
• Own sprint cadence and run 72-hour experiment cycles
• Track conversion bottlenecks, ROMI, CAC payback, and early unit economics
• Create product growth specs and influence roadmap through data-backed GTM insights
• Kill channels fast when evidence disproves scalability

What We’re Looking For

We hire for capability, speed, and ownership.

Must Haves

• Built at least one venture from $0 to meaningful revenue
• Closed early customers yourself
• Deep expertise in 2+ growth channels
• Strong growth model and funnel thinking
• AI-native operator using Claude, Cursor, Replit, GPTs, custom agents, and workflow automations
• Technical fluency in SQL, Python, no-code, landing pages, analytics, CRM tooling
• Experience leading pods or small cross-functional teams
• High comfort in ambiguity and founder-pressure environments
• Engineer-first growth mindset with strong automation/implementation depth; has shipped workflows and can use Claud Code, Replit, build integrations, scrapers, agents, dashboards, and quickly turn ideas into working systems
• T-shaped marketer with deep expertise in social/community and strong understanding of mechanics; able to orchestrate multi-channel growth loops without dismissing SEO

What Makes You Exceptional

• Thinks in systems, not tactics
• Ships weekly
• Learns from failed experiments fast
• Uses data over intuition
• Can move from model → experiment → revenue without handoffs
• Treats the venture like their own company
• Active and relevant presence on X/LinkedIn with consistent posting and thoughtful engagement in SEO/AEO/AI, demonstrating real credibility and signal (not fluff)
• Strong industry connections with real relationships across agencies, SEO/AEO experts, tool founders, and communities; able to unlock distribution via collaborations, webinars, and podcasts
• Proven builder mindset with ownership of side projects such as newsletters, micro-SaaS, communities, event series, or open-source work, demonstrating strong builder DNA