Growth Associate

Come join our Growth team!

High velocity, high intensity, high trust, high bar, high impact, and a will to win.

FutureFit AI could be the right next step in your career journey if reading those words resonates deeply with you, full stop. You live and lead with humility, pursue audacious goals, and are motivated by having a meaningful and positive impact on the people and the world around you.

First, an important note: Data shows that men on average apply for a role if they meet 3/10 requirements while women often only do so if it’s 10/10. We work hard to be clear and specific about what our roles include and demand and encourage you to apply if you see a strong (but not necessarily perfect) fit between you and the opportunity.

As a Growth Associate, you're at the heart of executing our priorities in the market, supporting and driving forward initiatives that are key to our company's growth trajectory. You will actively participate in the full spectrum of growth activities, from deep market analysis to direct sales operations to event strategy to partnership cultivation to targeted outreach. This role requires an ambitious individual who can switch gears seamlessly, managing a diverse portfolio of projects with skill and precision.

Our company is at an inflection point – we're poised for significant growth, and we're seeking a driven achiever to help us seize this opportunity.  With a blend of sharp analysis, tenacious outreach, and keen attention to detail, you’ll play a fundamental role in expanding our footprint. By engaging directly with our clients and partners, you will forge strong relationships and narratives that resonate with our audience, turning prospects into loyal customers.

Reporting to the Head of Growth, your role will stretch across different functions, offering you the opportunity to impact our market presence directly through:

• Business Development: Play a leading role in our business development efforts, helping to identify and pursue new opportunities that can lead to revenue growth.
• Conduct Market and Competitive Research: Stay ahead of industry trends and competitive movements to inform our growth strategies and operational focus.
• Lead Event Initiatives: Craft and execute targeted event plans that boost brand visibility, engage potential customers, and build valuable partnerships.
• Drive Growth Projects: Contribute to the planning and execution of other growth initiatives, applying your understanding of market dynamics to drive our expansion.
• Enhance Sales Operations: Optimize our sales funnel and processes, ensuring the team's efforts are efficient, agile, and impactful.
• Multitasking Mastery: Demonstrate exceptional organizational skills by juggling multiple priorities, ensuring each project advances without compromising attention to detail or delivery timelines. 

Your Experience

• 2-4 years experience in fast-paced, highly strategic, outcomes-oriented environments where you’d made a mark
• While the skills you have developed are more important than where you developed them, we believe there will strong benefits to backgrounds that include experiences such as: high-growth early-stage startups, B2B SaaS companies, management consulting firms, workforce development organizations

Your Skills

• Resourceful: Excels in a fast-paced environment, quickly shifting from strategy to execution and taking initiative to solve problems creatively when traditional solutions don't apply or are unavailable.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to contribute to the development of growth strategies and understand market dynamics.
• Adaptability: Comfortable with change and quick to adapt to new situations, you can pivot in response to evolving business needs.
• Systems Thinking: Practical experience or a solid grasp of systems-building, shaping processes, or similar foundational tasks within a business context.
• Communication: Clear, persuasive communication skills, both in writing and speaking. You can create impactful presentations and articulate ideas that resonate with diverse audiences.
• Results-driven: Focused on setting and surpassing ambitious goals, with a clear record of achieving target outcomes.
• Resilience: You’ve shown that you can handle challenges with determination, maintaining focus and performance under pressure.
• Curiosity: A strong desire to learn and improve, staying informed about industry trends and how they can be leveraged for growth.
• Efficiency Focus: Balances speed and thoroughness in work, recognizing the importance of each minute without compromising output quality.

Your Education

Your alma mater isn’t our focus. Your grit, hunger, and drive are. If you’re one who learns continuously, tackles challenges head-on, and knows your strengths and gaps intimately, you’re our person.

Job Benefits

• Work directly with the founding team
• Unlimited PTO
• Health care
• 401(K)
• Career Development Budget
• Technology reimbursement
• Flexible schedules built on trust

Location

This role will be based in New York City. Most days we work from home but everyone comes to the office at least once a week for face-to-face collaboration and team building.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $80,000-100,000 base salary plus equity and opportunity for bonus; it is variable based on applied experience and other factors identified by the hiring committee. 

Hiring Journey

At FutureFit AI, we believe in designing intentional and rigorous hiring journeys to help you determine if this is the best role and organization for you, based on your unique skills, mindset, and experiences. We operate at high velocity with high intensity and want an accurate taste of what that feels like before you get through the door. 

Every hiring journey at FutureFit AI consists of thoughtfully crafted steps including a performance challenge and rounds of interviews with team members. For this role, that might look like:

1. Online Application
2. Initial Screen/Checkpoint
3. Performance Challenge and Debrief
4. Final 1:1 Interviews
5. Final Decision

Generally, this entire process takes around 4 weeks, although the timing can vary due to specific candidate circumstances.

Our Company

In looking at a job posting, it’s often hard to get a basic picture of the company profile (size, stage, structure, etc.) which is why we are sharing it with you upfront. This helps you quickly decide and helps us focus any time we spend together on going beyond the basics:

1. Problem Domain: Future of Work / Workforce Development - important that the problem domain interests you even if you haven’t worked in the space before.
2. Industry: SaaS / AI - technology and data are at the core of what we build. 
3. Customers: We partner with workforce development agencies, government agencies, and employers/enterprises.
4. Structure: We are organized around the following key departments: Growth, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Data, People & Culture, Finance & Operations.
5. Team: We are a team of 30-50 across US and Canada with main hubs in New York and Toronto.
6. Funding: We built the company from 0 to 1 with no external capital (a rare feat for tech startups) and have subsequently raised one round of funding led by JP Morgan which fueled a significant growth trajectory for us.

Our Core Principles

• Be Curious 
• Drive to Outcomes 
• Raise the Bar
• Speed Matters
• Own It
• We Over Me

About FutureFit AI 

At FutureFit AI, we’re on a mission to unlock pathways between talent and opportunity using the power of AI. We focus on personalized, AI-powered career guidance for job seekers, emphasizing skills over extensive resumes, and partner with workforce development partners, governments, and employers to level access to opportunity.

FutureFit AI is a growing, venture-backed company focused on using technology to improve the lives and outcomes for people going through career transitions. We’re a small, driven team, united by our commitment to the job seekers and workforce ecosystems we serve. We're not just building a company; we're shaping the future of work.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

© FutureFit AI All rights reserved, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.