Founding Growth Marketer

TL;DR

You want to own the growth engine at an early-stage, cashflow positive startup from day one. You're a hands-on marketer who builds campaigns, runs experiments, and uses AI tools obsessively to move faster. You'll work directly with the CEO to systematize and scale what's working, discover what's next, and make AccessOwl the obvious choice for IT teams managing SaaS access.

Who we are

AccessOwl is building the first AI-native Access Governance Suite. We make it radically easier for IT and security teams to manage SaaS access, stay compliant, and eliminate shadow IT, without the overhead of traditional identity systems.

Philip (CEO) and Mathias (CTO) are serial entrepreneurs who felt the real pain of managing employee access manually in their previous companies. They founded AccessOwl out of frustration with manual onboarding, offboarding, and compliance workflows that slow companies down. By combining automation with agentic AI, we are redefining how modern IT admins govern SaaS.

We are a cashflow positive, Y Combinator-backed startup working with companies like Harvey, Pulley, and Braintrust. Our team is customer-centric, pragmatic, and ambitious.

Your responsibilities

• Own and execute content marketing end-to-end: blog posts, SEO/GEO optimization, and programmatic pages to grow organic and AI search visibility
• Build and maintain an active presence in Reddit communities relevant to our ICP, engaging authentically in threads where IT admins and security teams ask questions
• Set up and manage paid campaigns including retargeting (Google Ads, Meta) and competitor branded campaigns
• Run structured growth experiments across channels, measure results, and make clear recommendations on where to double down
• Build automations and workflows using AI tools to connect and manage marketing systems (Google Ads, Framer, Google Search Console, and more)
• Work directly with the CEO daily to align on priorities, experiments, content calendar, and co-develop the growth playbook

That's you

• 3-5 years of experience in growth marketing, demand generation, or content marketing at a B2B SaaS startup
• Hands-on experience with SEO, paid acquisition (Google Ads, Meta), and content creation
• Genuinely excited about AI: Claude or ChatGPT are your daily drivers, you've set up your own automations in n8n or Zapier, and you've been tinkering with Claude Code, OpenClaw and the likes
• High-agency operator who is excited to run experiments and not create decks. You ship, measure, and iterate.
• Generalist mindset: comfortable jumping between content, paid campaigns, community without needing a narrow lane
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where you help create the playbook, not follow one
• Familiar with tools like Google Search Console, Lemlist, Framer, or similar - or confident you can pick them up fast

You may not be a good fit if...

• You want to manage a team and set strategy from above. This is a hands-on building role.
• You need detailed playbooks and SOPs before you can start. Here, you create them.
• You're not actively using AI tools in your work. If Claude or ChatGPT aren't part of your daily routine, this isn't the right fit.
• You prefer to specialize deeply in one channel rather than owning the full top-of-funnel picture.

What we offer

• Remote-first with flexible working hours (Americas-friendly time zones)
• Yearly international team retreats to collaborate and celebrate wins such as Madeira (Portugal), Berlin (Germany), or San Francisco and quartery team offsites in North America
• Opportunity to build the growth function from scratch at an early-stage, cashflow positive startup
• Work directly with the CEO - short feedback loops, real impact, no layers

Why us

• We are building an entirely new category: AI-native Access Governance
• You will be the first growth hire, working closely with the founders to shape how AccessOwl shows up in the market
• We are backed by Y Combinator, cashflow positive, with strong traction
• We focus on impact, pragmatism, and building processes that actually work - not busywork

Your first 90 days

• 30 Days: Take over our content engine (blog posts, SEO/GEO, Reddit) and deeply learn the product, ICP, and existing channels
• 60 Days: Propose and launch your first growth experiments across new channels
• 90 Days: Double down on what works, kill what doesn't, and start scaling your best-performing channel