Wordware
IDE to develop, iterate and deploy AI Agents
head of growth
About the role
not necessarily a software engineer, but you've written code before and understand how things work under the hood. maybe you still dabble in frontend or have side projects. the point is: you need to deeply get our product and our users. implementing your simple ideas into main product and doing experiments in this way, would make your and my lives easier.**
You will also be selling 😲
being real: this is a hard role to fill. i (Filip) am currently heading growth and will be opportunistic about finding the right person.
you need to be able to say in two sentences something so impressive it will make me want to talk to you immediately. if that doesn't come to mind, don't apply.
the actual challenge: we have 350k users and are defining a new category (natural language ai development). we need someone who can turn "building AI with plain english" into a movement. someone who's already done something similar and knows exactly how to take "interesting tool" to "holy shit, this is the future."
the bigger picture: we're not just talking to traditional developers. we're reaching the next 500 million people who will be "coding" with plain english - lawyers, designers, product managers, founders, and domain experts of all kinds. this means threading an impossible needle: deep enough for engineers, accessible enough for everyone else, and compelling enough to show both groups why this matters.
success of your role
- based on revenue + MAUs! If you dont like KPIs also dont apply
- turning tinkerers into advocates
- making prosumers see deployment potential
- getting enterprise to trust a new paradigm
- managing full-funnel growth (yes, including sales pipeline for now)
- building multiple scalable acquisition channels
you probably:
- have grown a tool/platform from <100k to millions of users
- built and scaled multiple viral loops that actually worked
- know how to make technical content spread like wildfire
- managed sales pipelines (maybe)
- can spot growth opportunities others miss
- understand both technical and business metrics
- have done this before at a similar stage ($1-20m ARR)
- (!!) are technical enough to understand and explain our product
- (!!) can handle data analysis and growth engineering
technical requirements (need some, not all):
- ability to analyze usage patterns in posthog
- experience with lead scoring and PQL/MQL processes
- familiarity with data enrichment tools
- can handle programmatic SEO
- comfortable with marketing automation
- enough SQL/analytics to make data-driven decisions
- willing to learn what you don't know or manage freelancers who do
real talk:
- you'll work directly with me (Filip, CEO)
- sf only - no remote
- we don't need growth tips, we need someone who's done it and keen to do it again
- vc funding ($30m biggest out of YC seed) means nothing if we can't make this the default way to build with ai
- you enjoy weird company culture, we host crossbow competitions on sunday (really), our new office is 30m from the sea and has a sauna
ps: we're backed by spark capital, felicis, and y combinator ($30m seed — biggest out of YC round) but we still work like a seed startup. and yes, the office will have a sauna and be 30m from the sea 🥵
About Wordware
- Wordware (YC S24) ) is a toolkit that enables anyone to build, iterate, and deploy their AI stack easily. Our unique approach is centered around Natural Language Programming. Long term we see ourselves as an AI Operating System (aiOS) that acts as an orchestration layer for LLMs, databases, and tools.
- Sign up for free using this link: app.wordware.ai
- Primary Tool for Millions of AI Engineers coming to the market in the next 5 years
- Our users range from AI Tinkerers (free tier) to small startups (for example – 7 YC clients on Company Plan – 899 USD/month) ending at bigger enterprises (Instacart is a client)
- In the last 2 months, we went viral a couple of times:
- We built twitter.wordware.ai, demonstrating the potential of our platform. 6.5M users and still counting.
- Our Product Hunt launch went well (7000 upvotes; we even broke their servers)
- Since our launch (2nd of August) we grew from 10k users on our main product, to over 300k today.
- Repeat founders (Filip Kozera and Robert Chandler) both with exits
- They’ve known each other for the last 10 years following their research at Cambridge. They have been building companies in Transformers and AI Ops. They have worked full-time on companies together for the last 3 years.
- The Wordware team is 9 ppl all based in SF.
- Product + Community Led Growth
note: we're in hustle mode. we're shipping as fast as we can. this is not the kind of job you can cruise and 9-5. only apply if you want to grind, work late nights, and be part of a generational company. We are an onsite company (SF), expect a big house where the founders live, free food, beers and cool team activities.
So we are here, you are looking for a job at a startup huh?
⁉️ What’s it going to be like ⁉️
In Shackleton's famous words: “People wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in the event of success.”
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Why tho?
Risk + Excitement + Hard Work == Startup. Sure, you could join a big company and make decent money but it's that constant thrill of hope, the addictive energy that makes Robert and I come back to startups over and over again 😵💫
To thrive here, you’ve got to embrace this delulu universe, where the victories give us hope and the failures make us want it even more. Yes, we work late hours and often deal with some bullshit, but you'll be part of something bigger and even more, you will have a direct impact on EVERYTHING.
If you're ready to roll up your sleeves, identify your own features to build, and find your own problems to solve, then come on in. Grab a beer and a slice of pizza, and dive into creating the future of natural language programming and AI agents. Together, we'll revolutionize the way we work. Green Light. 🟢
So, what is Wordware?
***Wordware** is a prompt-first programming language that can be used by non-developers (AI Engineers). We merge concepts like loops, logic and functions from the world of classical programming with the non-deterministic nature of Language Models. It’s exposed in a web-hosted IDE with features like sharing, forking and API deployment.*
Sign up — try the onboarding flow
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