Founding Growth Engineer.
Build the loops. Own the curve.
Build the loops. Ship them. Read the numbers. Do it again. Founding hire that defines how growth works at Omelo and owns the outcome.
Precision pet healthcare and parenting. Live in two markets.
Omelo is a precision pet healthcare and parenting platform for dogs and cats. We are an ecosystem of daily care, individual health baselines, clinical triage, televet consultations, and longitudinal health records. Omelo reasons like a vet and speaks like a calm nurse. We are live on iOS and Android across the US and India.
Pets hide illness by instinct, so problems surface late. Omelo learns each pet’s individual baseline over the first 30 days and flags the moment behavioral signals converge into something that matters, often before a blood test would catch it. Our clinical triage reaches 81 percent agreement with a vet panel, against roughly 50 percent for general purpose assistants.
We exist for a reason. Our founder lost two dogs to parvovirus, a disease that hides until it is almost too late. That is the standard we build to.
Why this role exists now.
We have real pet parents in two markets, and we understand our funnel. We also know exactly where it leaks. We do not need someone to write a growth plan and hand it off. We need someone who builds the loops, ships them, reads the numbers, and does it again.
This is a founding hire. You will define how growth works at Omelo, and you will own the outcome.
What a founding growth engineer is here.
You are not a marketer who files tickets for engineering, and you are not an engineer who waits for a brief. You are both.
You spot a leak in activation, you write the code to fix it, you instrument it, you read the result, and you move to the next one. You think in loops and retention curves, not campaigns.
The whole loop, end to end.
- Acquisition. App Store Optimization across both stores in both markets, plus the experiment engine across organic channels: Reddit, TikTok, micro-influencers, Product Hunt, Hacker News, and founder-led content.
- Activation. The path from install to a pet parent who feels, fast, that Omelo understands their specific animal.
- Retention. The return loops, the daily check-in, the streak, the reasons to come back. This is where we win or lose.
- Monetization. Wiring the clinical moments that actually matter to the right paywall and televet trigger, within our subscription setup across India and US pricing.
- Instrumentation. Clean events, honest dashboards, one source of truth. You fix the metrics no one else will.
Three phases, one curve.
Weeks 1 to 2
Own the analytics. Map the funnel end to end and bring back the three leaks that cost us the most.
Weeks 3 to 6
Ship the first retention loop. Remove the worst activation friction. Take full ownership of ASO across both stores.
Weeks 7 to 12
Stand up a repeatable experiment engine. Launch the first acquisition channel that compounds. Connect clinical signals to monetization. Move weekly active caregivers, our north star metric.
Mobile + Node + Mongo, plus the growth layer.
You will work across our React Native app, a Node and Express backend, and MongoDB. Your growth surfaces include PostHog for analytics, RevenueCat for subscriptions across two markets, and OneSignal for messaging. The product runs on a two-call clinical pipeline: a reasoning pass that does hidden clinical analysis, and a response pass that speaks to the pet parent in plain, calm language, with vector memory underneath. You do not need to own the clinical core, but you should be comfortable shipping inside this codebase.
Must have. Nice to have.
Must have
- You have shipped growth at a B2C product, ideally a consumer mobile app, with numbers you can walk through honestly.
- You write production code and ship it. React Native and Node are a strong plus.
- You treat ASO as a craft, not a checklist.
- You are fluent in product analytics and experimentation, and you instrument your own work.
- You think in loops, retention, and honest unit economics, not vanity metrics.
Nice to have
- Experience growing in both India and US markets.
- Subscription and paywall monetization experience.
- A pet, health, or wellness background.
- Hands-on AI-native development, including LLM features.
You’re probably not a fit if.
- You want a defined brief and a clean roadmap handed to you.
- You see growth and engineering as two different people's jobs.
- You optimize for installs over caregivers who stay.
- You need a large team around you to do your best work.
Real ownership. From day one.
- Meaningful founding equity, and the title that comes with building the function from zero.
- Real users in two live markets from your first week.
- Direct work with the founder and the founding engineer, no layers in between.
- A mission you can explain to your family in one sentence.
Show us the curve.
Apply with the form, or send your CV or LinkedIn, your GitHub, and two or three sentences on a growth loop you built and what it did to the numbers.
Apply now