Founding Growth Lead
Company websitekastle.ai (Kastle, opens in new tab)
Base salary $170K to $200K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About Kastle
Kastle is building the AI employee for banks. We work with some of America's largest financial institutions, helping them scale their contact center and compliance operations using autonomous AI Agents that process payments, originate loans, and help customers get a world class experience during the biggest financial decisions of their lives. We've processed over $2 billion in transactions and have raised a $24M Series A led by Insight Partners and Y Combinator. If you are interested in building AI that is applied in the real world where precision, reliability, and performance matter and redefine access to credit across the world, apply below.
About the role
We’re looking for a Founding Growth Lead to build the systems and campaigns that bring Kastle into new accounts and markets.
You’ll figure out who we should reach, what matters to them, and how to get in front of them. You’ll write the message, launch the campaign, build the tools behind it, measure the response, and use what you learn to improve the next one. You’ll also own the product story across our website, sales materials, newsletter, and events.
This is a hands-on role with wide ownership. The right person is an excellent writer and a fast operator who can build with data, automation, and AI tools. They have the taste to make Kastle memorable and the discipline to see whether their work creates real sales opportunities.
What you’ll do
Build a live map of our market. Identify target accounts, buyers, relationships, and opportunities across our current segments and new verticals. Keep account maps current as we meet prospects, win customers, and learn where Kastle can expand.
Create paths into important accounts. Work with our investors and broader VC network to identify relevant connections, prepare thoughtful outreach, and turn warm introductions into conversations.
Own outbound and marketing experiments. Build lists, develop a hypothesis for each audience, write the copy, and launch campaigns. Test different messages and channels by segment; track replies, meetings, and pipeline; and keep improving the targeting and positioning.
Build the growth tooling. Create agents, automations, dashboards, and workflows that help us maintain the market map, run campaigns, track leads and ads, and give sales a reliable view of what is working.
Own Kastle’s product messaging. Turn customer conversations and product capabilities into clear positioning, website copy, slides, sales materials, and a product newsletter built from scratch.
Own Kastle presence at Events. Plan and execute conferences, smaller events, and campaigns across the industries we serve. Own the audience, invitations, experience, sales preparation, and follow-up.
Find creative ways to reach buyers. Test ideas such as thoughtful gifting, podcasts, customer programs, and Kastle-hosted events. Choose ideas for the audience they reach and the conversations they can create, then execute them with care.
A project you might own
Build a market map that is living and auto-updates daily. Start with the accounts and buyers we want to reach. Connect them to our existing relationships, outreach, meetings, customers, and events. Create a way for the map to stay current as the team books new calls and launches new products then use it to decide which accounts to pursue and what to say to them.
Who you are
Creative with good taste: You can develop a sharp message or an unusual campaign that feels right for a senior buyer.
Resourceful: You find a way forward one way or another. You never stop at a no.
Fast and thorough: You move quickly without losing details, deadlines, or follow-up.
Technical and curious: You’re comfortable building with data, AI tools, automations, and integrations. You can learn a new tool quickly and know when a simple system beats a complicated one.
Analytical: You care whether a campaign produces the right conversations, and you change your approach when it doesn’t.
Highly independent: You can take an ambitious goal, decide what to do first, and own the work through execution.
High energy: You enjoy talking to people, testing ideas, and making things happen in the real world.
You may have worked in growth, product marketing, GTM engineering, founder’s office, or built something yourself. We care most about what you’ve personally created and the results it produced.
How to apply
Send your resume or LinkedIn profile and one example of a campaign, event, or internal tool you built that you are proud of. Tell us what you owned, how you made decisions, and what happened as a result.
Source: Kastle on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($170,000) is above 56% of the 749 Marketing roles in California listed on this site; 25 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $160,000; the middle half runs from $135,000 to $191,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
This listingFounding Growth Lead$170K to $200K
Forward Deployed Engineer$170K to $250K
Infrastructure Engineer$180K to $275K
Founder's Office$150K to $210K
Forward Deployed Product Manager$150K to $220K
Head of Talent$200K to $250K
Senior Product Manager$200K to $250K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Founding Growth Lead (this listing) | $170K - $200K |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $170K - $250K |
| Infrastructure Engineer | $180K - $275K |
| Founder's Office | $150K - $210K |
| Forward Deployed Product Manager | $150K - $220K |
| Head of Talent | $200K - $250K |
| Senior Product Manager | $200K - $250K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- fields changed
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-25
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco
USD 170,000 – 200,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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