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Founding Growth Lead

Fundamental Research Labs

Fundamental Research Labs

Sales & Business Development
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 13, 2025

Location

Menlo Park Office

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Business

About the Role


We’re looking for our first GTM hire — someone excited to build from the ground up and play a critical role in shaping how we grow. As our Founding GTM Lead, you’ll work directly with leadership to manage high-impact customer relationships, determine bottoms-up growth plans, close strategic deals, and lay the foundation for a scalable sales function.

This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves building relationships, and brings a builder’s mindset to process and pipeline.

What you'll do

  • Own and manage relationships across the customer and user journey, from individuals to small businesses and enterprise clients

  • Qualify inbound leads and drive them through the funnel

  • Close deals and handle associated contracts and paperwork

  • Design and optimize early sales processes and CRM hygiene

  • Build a strategy for long-term growth, retention, and upsell opportunities

  • Serve as the voice of the customer to the team

Qualifications

  • Experience in a founding or early GTM role at a high-growth startup, ideally within the AI landscape

  • Success in building product-led or hybrid GTM strategies

  • Operationally sharp - you know how to prioritize a pipeline and keep things moving

  • Clear communicator with strong relationship instincts

  • Ability to earn trust with technical teams, founders, and enterprise buyers

  • Experience building playbooks and processes from scratch

What makes us interesting

  • Small, elite team of ex-founders, researchers from top AI Labs, top CS grads, and engineers from top companies

  • True ownership You will not be blocked by bureaucracy, shipping meaningful work within weeks rather than months

  • Serious momentum We're well-funded by top investors, moving fast, and focused on execution

What we do

  • Ship consumer products powered by cutting-edge AI research, and

  • Build infrastructure that facilitates research and product, and

  • Innovate cutting-edge research that will open up new consumer product forms

The Details

  • Full-time, onsite role in Menlo Park

  • Startup hours apply

  • Generous salary, with additional benefits to be discussed during the hiring process