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About Us:
At Read AI we’re making the workplace better by acting as the ultimate AI assistant and allowing any individual and workplace leader to know their business in real time. Our platform supercharges productivity across meetings, email, messages, CRM, and workflow tools and integrates seamlessly with Google, Microsoft, Zoom, Notion, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, and every other popular tool without complex setup. We meet users wherever they are to take care of all the most mundane aspects of the week: notetaking, scheduling, prioritization, information sharing and search, out of office management, onboarding, offboarding, and more. Read AI helps individuals stay on track and teams move forward faster, wherever and however they collaborate.

Backed by $81 million in funding from Smash Capital, Madrona, and Goodwater Capital, Read AI is growing. If you're excited to shape the future of AI-powered work and want to make an impact at a product-focused startup, we’d love to meet you.

Role Overview:
We’re looking for a Director of Growth Marketing to build, lead, and scale our paid acquisition engine. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, owning the systems and processes that drive efficient customer acquisition and long-term value.

You’ll work closely with Product to strengthen onboarding and activation, ensuring every dollar spent on acquisition turns into engaged, retained customers. As the function matures, you’ll hire and lead a team to expand into additional growth channels and accelerate results across the funnel. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role responsible for delivering measurable, sustainable growth with a laser focus on ROI, ROAS, and CPA efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Phase 1: Immediate Impact

  Stand up and operationalize the paid acquisition function:

  • Launch, manage, and optimize paid campaigns across key channels

  • Establish reporting frameworks and performance dashboards

  • Test channels, creative, and audiences to validate ROI

  • Build repeatable systems that support predictable growth
    

  Phase 2: Scaling & Team Building

  Once the foundation is in place:

  • Recruit and lead a high-performing growth team

  • Layer in new growth channels and expand acquisition scope

  • Partner cross-functionally to deepen impact on onboarding and LTV

  • Scale processes to improve conversion, efficiency, and lifetime value

Qualifications:

• Experience: 8–10+ years in growth marketing, with deep experience in paid acquisition; minimum 3 years managing and scaling teams.

• Expertise: Demonstrated success growing digital acquisition programs across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, programmatic, and emerging channels.

• Builder Mentality: Comfortable creating systems from the ground up in fast-moving “zero-to-one” environments.

• Leadership: Proven ability to hire, develop, and lead teams through rapid growth.

• Analytical Mindset: Strong command of analytics tools and the ability to translate insights into strategy and execution.

• Collaboration: Track record of working effectively with Product, Design, and Data teams to align marketing with customer experience.

• Results-Driven: Focused on execution, efficiency, and achieving measurable improvements in CPA, LTV, and overall growth metrics.

Why Read AI?

• Innovative: We bring AI to the masses with proactive technology that acts as the ultimate AI assistant. Built on our proprietary, patented technology, Read AI takes notes, surfaces information, facilitates collaboration, and learns you, making individuals and teams more effective.

• Massive Impact: AI's greatest impact will be on the ability to allow people to do more, taking away mundane tasks, and guiding them to the next best action.

• Growth Opportunities: Read AI is the fastest growing AI-copilot and meeting notetaker in history, and is one of the leading AI companies in the world, adding more than 1MM new customers every month. The company raised Series A and B in 2024, also was recognized as a Top Startup in Seattle by LinkedIn (2025), also notably a Top Company To Watch in 2025 by Inc Magazine, and is one of the Top AI Companies in Demand by Startups, according to a16z.

• Leadership: Learn more about CEO and Co-Founder David Shim in this Fortune Good Life profile and listen to him share his vision for AI Agents, Digital Twins and the Future of Work. CTO and Co-Founder Rob Williams was recently anointed as one of the most disruptive leaders in AI. For more on our technology, Co-Founder and VP Data Science Elliott Waldron goes behind-the-scenes on our patents and models in this tech brief.

• Collaborative Culture: Work in a supportive and collaborative environment with a diverse and talented team.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $180,000 - $200,000 plus variable compensation, equity and benefits. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer low deductible health plans, as well as flexible time away and family leave programs.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.