Vooma
Growth Lead
Vooma, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
TLDR : early business hire, unlimited growth potential, opportunity to join a strong founding teams (ex Stanford) with extremely strong signal of PMF
About Vooma
Vooma is a high growth freight-tech startup building the AI agent for logistics. Our mission is to improve the efficiency and resiliency of US supply chains. Vooma is backed by top tier investors, founded by operators with experience from the industry, and at an inflection point in growth.
We work with leading logistics players like Arrive Logistics, Echo Global Logistics, MoLo / Arcbest, MODE Global, NFI Logistics, Evans Transportation, and Sunset Transportation.
Vooma is founded by Jesse Buckingham and Mike Carter. Mike built self driving trucks as a founding engineer at Kodiak Robotics (raised $250M) where he established and led their motion planning and safety teams. Jesse was previously CEO at a private equity backed logistics software company that sold to brokers and truckers which he grew from $2M to $20M+ ARR.
Vooma is backed by top-tier investors including Index Ventures, Y-Combinator and CEOs, founders and executives from Nolan, Arrive, Ryder, MoLo, NFI, Convoy, Uber Freight, Motive, Loop, OTR Capital, Project44, Trucker Tools and more.
About the role
This is a rare opportunity to join a talented and experienced team at the ground level to build a transformational company for a critical industry. You'll be an early business hire working directly with the founders in a role with uncapped upside potential. If you've ever thought about working in growth at an early stage startup, and are ready to get your hands dirty, this is an ideal opportunity to learn a ton and grow as an executive.
You will join our founding team as our first hire in
Growth . You'll build the GTM foundation for scale. You'll be the Jill or Jack of all trades in all things growth. You'll test new growth strategies and analyze data to figure out what works. You'll build systems, processes and enablement. You'll integrate AI agents into our internal workflows. You'll select and implement the sales & marketing tech stack. You'll pinch hit as an SDR, sales rep, marketer to get things off the ground, then hand off to others and set them up for success.
You're a good fit if you're the type of person that is known by your peers to move mountains and make progress, no matter the circumstances. The ambiguity of early stage company building is thrilling to you, and you're excited by the challenge of breathing life into things that didn't exist before.
Your responsibilities will include:Designing and testing outbound strategies to hand off and scaleDesigning and testing marketing strategies to hand off and scaleRefining sales & marketing messaging and enablementBuilding data and tech infrastructure for sales & marketingBuilding AI powered internal processes to improve sales & marketing efficiencyStanding up product marketing messaging and processesAnything it takes to winThe role will evolve over time to focus on high priority initiatives at different stages of the company depending on the skills and interests of the candidate.
You're a good fit if:
You've got entrepreneurial hustleYou're deeply analyticalYou have strong communication and messaging skillsYou've got a strong bias to actionYou understand how to build and scale processYou understand how to structure and solve problemsYou're a strong all around operatorYou might have worked in consulting, banking, private equity, or sales / marketing / generalist roles in high growth startups.
Compensation
The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 10 employeeCompetitive compensationSignificant equity upsideMedical / dental / vision
This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).
About Vooma
Vooma is a high growth freight-tech startup building the AI agent for logistics. Our mission is to improve the efficiency and resiliency of US supply chains. Vooma is backed by top tier investors, founded by operators with experience from the industry, and at an inflection point in growth.
We work with leading logistics players like Arrive Logistics, Echo Global Logistics, MoLo / Arcbest, MODE Global, NFI Logistics, Evans Transportation, and Sunset Transportation.
Vooma is founded by Jesse Buckingham and Mike Carter. Mike built self driving trucks as a founding engineer at Kodiak Robotics (raised $250M) where he established and led their motion planning and safety teams. Jesse was previously CEO at a private equity backed logistics software company that sold to brokers and truckers which he grew from $2M to $20M+ ARR.
Vooma is backed by top-tier investors including Index Ventures, Y-Combinator and CEOs, founders and executives from Nolan, Arrive, Ryder, MoLo, NFI, Convoy, Uber Freight, Motive, Loop, OTR Capital, Project44, Trucker Tools and more.
About the role
This is a rare opportunity to join a talented and experienced team at the ground level to build a transformational company for a critical industry. You'll be an early business hire working directly with the founders in a role with uncapped upside potential. If you've ever thought about working in growth at an early stage startup, and are ready to get your hands dirty, this is an ideal opportunity to learn a ton and grow as an executive.
You will join our founding team as our first hire in
Growth . You'll build the GTM foundation for scale. You'll be the Jill or Jack of all trades in all things growth. You'll test new growth strategies and analyze data to figure out what works. You'll build systems, processes and enablement. You'll integrate AI agents into our internal workflows. You'll select and implement the sales & marketing tech stack. You'll pinch hit as an SDR, sales rep, marketer to get things off the ground, then hand off to others and set them up for success.
You're a good fit if you're the type of person that is known by your peers to move mountains and make progress, no matter the circumstances. The ambiguity of early stage company building is thrilling to you, and you're excited by the challenge of breathing life into things that didn't exist before.
Your responsibilities will include:Designing and testing outbound strategies to hand off and scaleDesigning and testing marketing strategies to hand off and scaleRefining sales & marketing messaging and enablementBuilding data and tech infrastructure for sales & marketingBuilding AI powered internal processes to improve sales & marketing efficiencyStanding up product marketing messaging and processesAnything it takes to winThe role will evolve over time to focus on high priority initiatives at different stages of the company depending on the skills and interests of the candidate.
You're a good fit if:
You've got entrepreneurial hustleYou're deeply analyticalYou have strong communication and messaging skillsYou've got a strong bias to actionYou understand how to build and scale processYou understand how to structure and solve problemsYou're a strong all around operatorYou might have worked in consulting, banking, private equity, or sales / marketing / generalist roles in high growth startups.
Compensation
The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 10 employeeCompetitive compensationSignificant equity upsideMedical / dental / vision
This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).