What you will do

• Build Plaud's Growth engineering team from scratch, and define its strategy for onboarding, experimentation and funnel optimization across every surface users touch: the device, mobile, web and desktop.
• Hire, lead and grow the team (full-stack, mobile and data-minded engineers), and stay hands-on in the code when it helps.
• Own the end-user onboarding experience, from device setup and signup through first run and activation, so new users get value in their first session.
• Build and run a high-tempo experiment program on our experimentation platform, with sound statistics, clear readouts and shared learnings.
• Find and fix the biggest drop-offs in the user funnel, and turn what works into reusable patterns other product teams can adopt.
• Partner with the Data team on funnel instrumentation and experiment data the whole company can trust.
• Work closely with the product, pricing and app framework teams so that experiments ship safely behind feature flags on every surface.
• Report on activation, conversion through the funnel and experiment velocity, plus the guardrail metrics that must not get worse.

Skills, qualifications and experience we look for

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading growth engineering at a product-led consumer or prosumer company.
• Proven track record shipping onboarding and activation improvements that moved measurable metrics.
• Deep experimentation expertise: test design, statistical power, guardrail metrics, and knowing when not to run a test.
• Experience optimizing funnels across several surfaces (mobile, web, desktop). Hardware or device onboarding is a strong plus.
• Strong full-stack skills (React, mobile, and a backend language such as Go, Python or Node.js) and comfort writing production code.
• Experience with experimentation and analytics tools such as PostHog, Amplitude or Segment.
• Has built a team from scratch, with excellent collaboration across Product, Design and Data.

What we offer

1. Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.
2. High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
3. Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
4. Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
5. Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.

Disclaimer: Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.