Play AI is hiring a

Senior Growth Marketing Manager

Palo Alto, United States
Full-Time

About Us:

PlayAI is at the forefront of generative voice and conversational LLMs. With our Speech Synthesis and Voice Cloning models, we are building the SOTA conversational AI products.

We are building a platform and infrastructure for Conversational AI Voice Agents so that every business, developer, or tinkerer can easily build talking human-like AI agents and use them to serve their customers; this will unlock massive value for the world and a lot of happiness for people using these delightful agents.

We joined YC last year in the YC W23 batch. Since then, we have raised $21m in seed funding and seen significant growth

Position Overview:

We're looking for a talented Senior Growth Marketing Manager to drive adoption and revenue for our advanced text-to-speech and voice agent products. Play.AI is a well funded leader in the space, with exceptional organically driven growth, but we need more. We’re looking for a talented and motivated individual with strong experience in driving PLG and enterprise growth motions.  You will own optimization and reporting on the end-to-end funnel for both developers and business users, including the website, and any relevant acquisition channels, ensuring that they can find Play AI’s products, understand their value, sign up and grow into successful paying customers.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Traffic Acquisition

    • Develop, prioritize and test strategies and channels to acquire ML engineers and developers to our platform

    • Oversee and report on funnel performance of all traffic sources (paid, social, organic, email), directly manage paid media in conjunction with agency

  2. Onboarding Funnel Optimization

    • Analyze, report on, continually improve the website and developer onboarding experience

    • Implement A/B testing to maximize conversion rates at each funnel stage

    • Reduce friction points in API key acquisition and initial implementation

    • Identify and report on content (docs, articles, code, tutorials) that drive core KPIs

  3. Developer Success and Retention

    • Design programs to drive API usage and showcase advanced features

    • Create case studies highlighting successful integrations and use cases

  4. Conversion to Paid Plans

    • Develop strategies to convert free tier users to paying customers

    • Identify in-funnel high value prospects for handover to sales

    • Implement in-product messaging and upgrade paths

  5. Metrics and Analysis

    • Define and track KPIs for the entire developer journey, reporting to leadership

    • Conduct cohort analysis to understand long-term user behavior

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of growth marketing or product experience, with developer-focused products

  • Strong technical background.  You understand the developer mindset

  • Proven track record of driving user acquisition and revenue growth for technical products

  • Experience with funnel optimization, A/B testing, and data-driven decision making

  • Excellent analytical skills, proficiency with relevant tools (e.g., SQL, analytics platforms)

  • Outstanding communication skills, able to bridge technical and business concepts

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; MBA a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Hands-on coding experience or ability to write and understand code samples

  • Experience with voice agents, text-to-speech, modern LLM capabilities and pain points

We offer competitive compensation, equity, and the chance to shape the future of speech AI. Join us in revolutionizing how developers integrate advanced text-to-speech capabilities into their applications!

To apply, please submit your resume AND a brief description of a successful growth initiative you've led for a technical product. We will only consider candidates who have a demonstrable track record with evidence behind that.

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