Growth Lead

Taste, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
3 months ago
Apply on indeed.com
Prepare application

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
$150,000.0 - $220,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Spreadsheets Airtable

Job description

The talent funnel from application to active project. ~1,500 experts in flight at any time. You own the systems, metrics, and process improvements that get more of them activated and keep them active.

This is supply chain operations for a curated expert network. Not community management. Not recruiting. The expert community is the company’s compounding asset, and your job is to make that true in practice. The supply graph is your product. The activation workflow is your product. Onboarding, calibration, and bridging between projects are your product.

This is an execute and build role. Most of the infrastructure doesn’t exist yet. You’ll join work already underway and build the structure as you run it.

Day to day

  • You own the weekly funnel dashboard. Five numbers, every Monday: apps portfolio yes tested passed contracted staffed. You publish, the team reacts.
  • You collapse the nine-plus-step onboarding into fewer steps. You find the single-person bottlenecks and eliminate them.
  • You make Airtable the source of truth for every stage. Retire the side spreadsheets and Notions where possible, or sync them in.
  • You build and run the activation model. The bench is full of vetted experts who never made it to a project. Getting them activated is the job.
  • You run reactivation campaigns. Send the sequences, track replies and bookings, route conversations to the right person, report what converted., * You think of community management as content programming: events, newsletters, swag
  • You can’t distinguish between “building a community” and “building a guild”
  • Your background is volume recruiting: fill rate over fit
  • You need someone to chase you for the Monday numbers
  • You produce polished work but slowly. Polished alone is not the bar.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Talent management?

About the company

Taste is building the AI for creative work.

Today’s AI is great at logic and code, but when it comes to anything visual, brand, or aesthetic, it produces slop. Generic fonts, cluttered layouts, off-brand colors, soulless compositions. The models don’t understand taste.

We’re changing that. We’re building the creativity layer for AI: the models, evaluators, and data pipelines that teach AI what “great” actually looks like, so that every company building with AI can ship work that feels crafted, on-brand, and beautiful.

We recently closed a $16M seed round co-led by Amplify and CRV. We’re working with customers like Anthropic, Flint, and leading AI labs, powering the design intelligence behind their products. The team today is small, senior, and hungry. We care deeply about quality, move fast, and love the problem.

If you think AI-generated work feels soulless right now, and you want to be part of the team fixing that, we’d love to meet you., We are intentionally open. A handful of profiles match the shape of this work, none of which are obvious by title.

  • Product growth or lifecycle leads at marketplaces or networks where supply was the product
  • Revops or growth ops people who owned a funnel end to end and built the reporting themselves
  • Marketplace supply ops where activation mattered more than acquisition
  • Growth generalists at fast companies who built the workflow everyone ended up using
  • Operators at Scale, Mercor, or Surge who pushed quality against the volume model and want to build a network that compounds rather than churns
  • Early-stage founders whose company didn’t work out, especially marketplace, network, or community-driven

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on indeed.com
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

2:31 min

Evolving a card collecting application through various architectures

Jeff Blankenburg Jeff Blankenburg ¡ World Congress 2026 Europe

1:32 min

Recognizing the persistence and utility of spreadsheet applications

John Bettiol ¡ World Congress 2022

5:28 min

Company overview and talent acquisition team structure

Kerstin Kerstin +2 ¡ World Congress 2024

6:10 min

Transitioning agile recruiting teams away from manual spreadsheet management

Rudi Bauer Rudi Bauer +1 ¡ Cappuccino with HR

4:12 min

Avoiding feature creep and validating genuine user problems

Mali M. Baum +2 ¡ World Congress 2023

1:52 min

Navigating complex spreadsheets inside terminal environments

Chris Heilmann +2 ¡ LIVE

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all