Founding Growth Lead

About Us

One in two Americans is at risk of social disconnection. The US Chamber of Connection is building a national movement to change that.

In our first two years, we've:

• Launched five founding cities, building local coalitions to make social connection a civic priority.
• Published the State of Connection in America, a national study establishing a new benchmark for social connection.
• Mobilized hundreds of volunteers and community builders across the country.
• Convened 250 national leaders at our inaugural Connected Cities Summit to design a shared vision for more connected cities.
• Built partnerships with leading researchers, companies, nonprofits, and civic organizations.

Now we're scaling a national membership movement combining learning, community, certification, and action.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Founding Growth Lead to build our consumer growth engine and help take this movement from thousands to millions.

You'll own our growth strategy and execution, turning our national network, thought leadership, programs, and community into sustained audience growth and membership revenue that funds the impact of the organization.

Our ambition is double-digit month-over-month growth, driven primarily by referrals, organic social, and partnerships, not advertising.

You'll work directly with the founder, with significant autonomy and accountability for results. There's no established playbook. You'll figure out what works, build the systems, and scale them.

Reports to: Founder & CEO

What You'll Own

Referral and Community-Led Growth

• Build referral and ambassador programs that turn participants into advocates.
• Make courses, certifications, events, and community achievements opportunities for sharing and recruitment by members.
• Design repeatable growth loops that make participation generate more participation.

Organic Social Growth

• Turn our research, thought leadership, and community stories into compelling, shareable content.
• Activate the networks of our leaders, experts, partners, and members.
• Experiment with creators, video, and social platforms to drive measurable audience growth.

Partner-Led Growth

• Turn our national network of companies, nonprofits, universities, and associations into distribution partners.
• Create scalable co-marketing campaigns, toolkits, and referral programs.
• Identify and replicate the partnerships that generate the strongest results.
• Collaborate with our local chapters for local campaigns.

Conversion and Lifecycle Marketing

• Build targeted landing pages that convert visitors free membership tier called "Friends”.
• Develop automated journeys that turn engagement into participation, course enrollment, and paid membership.
• Continuously test and improve conversion and retention.

Growth Operations

• Own growth targets, dashboards, CRM, and marketing automation.
• Run weekly experiments, measure results, and scale what works.
• Use AI and automation to achieve outsized results with a small team.

What Success Looks Like

First 90 days: Establish growth metrics, launch referral and partner experiments, improve priority conversion funnels, and identify the most promising acquisition channels.

First year: Build a repeatable growth engine, achieve ambitious audience growth, make organic and partner channels major acquisition drivers, and significantly increase membership and course revenue.

You'll Thrive Here If...

• You love seeing the numbers move. Ambitious goals and measurable progress energize you.
• You make things happen. You identify opportunities and act without waiting for direction.
• You finish what you start. You take personal ownership of commitments and results.
• You move fast. You'd rather test an idea this week than spend a month planning it.
• You're resourceful. You use creativity, technology, and AI to accomplish more with less.
• You want to win at something that matters. You're driven to achieve extraordinary results in service of a meaningful mission.

What You Bring

• A track record of personally building and scaling consumer growth channels with measurable results.
• Demonstrated success with referrals, organic social, partnerships, or community-led growth.
• Experience with conversion funnels, email automation, analytics, and experimentation.
• Ability to independently build campaigns, landing pages, and growth systems.
• Strong writing skills and fluency with AI and modern marketing tools.

Experience with consumer memberships, online education, or mission-driven startups is a plus. We care more about what you've built and achieved than your titles or credentials.

Why Join?

We believe the best work gives people three things:

• Relationships: Work alongside an extraordinary network of researchers, entrepreneurs, community builders, and civic leaders who care deeply about each other and the mission.
• Impact: Help reverse one of America's most urgent social challenges by building a movement that can reach millions of people.
• Growth: Take ownership of an ambitious challenge, develop new skills, and grow alongside an organization being built from the ground up.

We're building a more connected America—and a team where people can experience the connection, impact, and growth we're working to create.

Compensation & Logistics

• Salary: $90,000 to $110,000 per year, commensurate with experience
• Location: Remote-friendly but preference for SF, SEA, or NYC
• Type: Full-time
• Benefits: Health insurance and unlimited PTO

The US Chamber of Connection is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status. We actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and believe a range of perspectives makes us stronger.

Hiring Process

We are collecting applications on a rolling basis. We will begin reaching out in mid-December to schedule first-round interviews for early January. Due to the volume of applications, we may not be able to respond to every applicant individually. All applicants will receive an update on their application status.