Growth Associate

ABOUT US

We're solving AI's hardest problem: alignment.

Encord is the data layer for Physical AI and enterprise, serving as core infrastructure for 300+ of the world's leading AI teams, including Woven by Toyota, Hitachi, Skydio, AbbVie and Dyna, Walden and Agility Robotics. From autonomous vehicles and robotics to sports and healthcare, we're solving AI's hardest problem: turning complex, real-world data into production-ready intelligent systems.

We're a team of founders, scientists, quants, researchers, and former Olympians, who’ve helped build some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley, and alumni of MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial. We’ve raised $110M from legendary technology investors, early backers of companies like Databricks, ElevenLabs and Vercel, and we’re growing at an extraordinary pace.

We're looking for exceptional people who want to help build a category-defining company, operating with high urgency and taking real ownership to help shape the future of AI.

THE ROLE

We've just launched our NYC office, and are looking for our first Growth Associate to join the team. This is an opportunity to support across Encord's entire growth function: from our billboards or campaigns on X, to our exec dinners, founder PR or flagship annual summit.

In a single week you might organize our booth at a robotics conference, run a monthly dinner with executives at companies we most want to meet and uncover a gap in our LLM ranking and ship new content to improve it. You'll have a founder-mentality, move with relentless urgency, and own outcomes rather than tasks.

If you want to start a company one day, or already have, this is the place to sharpen your edge. You'll see up close how a category-defining company gets built and get as much scope as you can handle (as fast as you can earn it). Our team is small and we all roll up our sleeves, from packing hundreds of swag boxes, to cold outbounding a famous podcast to book our founders an interview.

SOME OF WHAT YOU COULD OWN IN YOUR FIRST MONTHS:

• Growth hacks: test scrappy, creative ways to get in front of the AI leaders at companies we most want to work with; obsess about finding out what's actually working and doubling down
• Content distribution: help put Encord on the map, from understanding where our market spends time online/IRL to helping create and distribute high-value content that reflects our leadership in the space
• Conferences: prep and run our presence at large conferences, from booking meetings ahead of time to working the booth and following up with leads
• A bold IRL launch: help take an out-of-home campaign or stunt in New York from idea to street, from sourcing locations to capturing the content once it's live
• Executive dinners: own the guest list, venue and follow-up for dinners with the AI teams at the companies we most want to work with
• Customer stories: turn customer wins into case studies, videos and posts that our GTM team can use to communicate the value of Encord

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Support the team across Encord's entire growth function: events, launches, paid and organic campaigns, outbound and content
• Become the Encord product and customer expert - you'll know our customers by name, deeply understand why leading AI teams choose Encord and how to accelerate our growth
• Execute exceptionally well, including on the details that make things great: logistics, vendors, timelines and run-of-show
• Take full ownership of projects as you prove yourself, coming up with your own ideas for how Encord can grow and executing on them
• Write and ship wide-ranging media formats: social posts that resonate with our market, press releases to announce a big launch, outbound emails to book meetings, video scripts or podcast outlines
• Examine the performance of what you deliver, track results and proactively identify what's working/not working (and quickly adapt)

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 1–3 years in a high-velocity environment: starting a company as a founder, top-tier banking or investing, early hire at a hyper-growth startup, or similar. Exceptional new grads will be considered
• High-agency and founder-mentality: you have a strong sense of self-initiative and usually find a creative solution to obstacles that others get stuck on
• Eager for a non-linear growth path (and driven to put in the work needed to achieve it)
• Customer-centric and sales-focused: you want to deeply understand how our business works, why our customers choose Encord and what makes a 'great' Encord customer; you want to learn to speak the language of our market and be respected by customers/prospects, have them on speed-dial
• Eager to spend time on what delivers results: you internalize our north start metrics and goals, and refuse to spend time on 'vanity' tasks or initiatives that don't help us make progress
• You want to roll up your sleeves: you realize the majority of work required to grow a company is not glamorous, and you deeply care to do a great job on every step required to getting to the result
• You're curious about new avenues for growth: you want to help find new S curves for the company and can juggle 'always on' priorities with executing on new experiments and bets
• Evidence that you make things happen: events, projects, campaigns, or businesses you drove yourself

WHY ENCORD

• Generational opportunity to shape how AI will develop in the real-world
• Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a hyper-growth startup
• Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
• Strong in-person culture in our newly launched East Village office: +4 days/week
• Daily team lunches & dinners
• Annual learning & development budget
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• US employees: 18 paid vacation days plus US public holidays
• Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
• Bi-annual company offsites & monthly socials

OPERATING PRINCIPLES

High agency

You see something broken, you fix it or find the person who can. We celebrate the people who solve 90% of a problem before anyone asks.

Build with care & urgency

We bear-hug the customer. Former founders and people from fast-moving, high-stakes environments thrive here.

Self-aware & hungry

We stay warm, self-aware, and genuinely hungry. We elevate our peers, and ego doesn't last long.

Invent in real time

We move toward the ambiguity. We’re pragmatic, resourceful, energized by the fact that there's no playbook.

If you're looking to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who push you to be better, we'd love to meet you.