Y/N (YC S23) is hiring a growth lead to distribute superhuman A.I. storytelling

Y/n Play your story Founding Growth Marketer $130K - $300K • 0.30% - 2.00% • San Francisco, CA, US Job type Full-time Role Marketing Experience Any (new grads ok) Visa Will sponsor Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › Gabriel Birnbaum Founder Gabriel Birnbaum Founder About the role About Y/n Y/n is creating a new form of entertainment: interactive stories. Y/n lets people play a character in a book, finally letting anyone meddle with the universes and characters they care about. Our mission is to build a superhuman A.I. storyteller and distribute it to billions of people. We're giving the technology to creators, so they can turn their most ingenious ideas into stories others can live in. To date, people have sent over one billion messages on Y/n. Teenagers and twenty-somethings are going to imaginary schools, falling in love with fictional people, and living out entire lives in A.I.-generated stories made for them. Soon, billions will play stories too, across every genre, in text, in video, alone or with their friends. By 2030, playing stories will become the dominant form of entertainment. Our Culture Our culture is simple: Story quality determines Y/n's success, so we hire people obsessed with making stories great. We are commercially minded. We want people who use their abilities to make numbers go up. We run Y/n like a hedge fund: a small group of people making very big bets on model training and network effects. We hire people who think rigorously and own their domain. We've raised $14M from top investors, and we're hiring for several roles. If you want to live in pursuit of superhuman storytelling, join us. The Role TL;DR: Come up with good ideas for marketing channels, test them, and own them end to end. This can mean running our ads and creative pipeline: commissioning ads, learning what works, doubling down, and scaling spend across channels. Or it can mean running creator partnerships. E.g., partnering with BookTokers, convincing YouTubers to film reaction videos, and building out a UGC creator program. Mainly, however, you’ll be our first growth hire. The job is finding out what works. Qualifications You are smart as hell, hungry to win, and believe in our values. You get our audience: teenagers and twenty-somethings who live on the internet and love stories and fandoms. You can read charts well, want to measure everything, and kill what doesn't work. You have good takes, proactively. You've owned a meaningful paid budget across Meta, TikTok, or Google. You are comfortable with open-ended work like "figure out the good marketing channels." Some experience as an early member of a project or company is a nice-to-have. Holistic growth experience is good too. Hiring Process We aim to make hiring simple. You'll have: Two interviews with the team. A day-long (paid) work trial. Logistics Location: San Francisco, California (on-site) Compensation: $130,000–$300,000 USD annually, depending on background, skills, and experience. Visa Sponsorship: We sponsor visas. While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together. Benefits: Generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, and relocation support as needed. About Y/n Y/n is an app where you play a character in your story. Be a boarding school student and get the boys to fall in love with you, or plan a jailbreak with Sherlock Holmes. Stories are made for you. Your texts change the plot and how characters feel about you, so no two playthroughs are the same (but you can rewind). There's a Y/n story for every mood: romance, fanfiction, fluff, mystery, and more. Discover 10M+ stories created by the community. Can't find the one you want? Write and publish your own. Y/n Founded: 2025 Batch: S23 Team Size: 4 Status: Active Location: San Francisco Founders Gabriel Birnbaum Founder Gabriel Birnbaum Founder Eric Meier Founder Eric Meier Founder Similar Jobs Santé Founding Growth Marketer Whatnot Category Marketing Manager Nori Social Media & Content Marketer telli Founding Marketing Lead Peakflo Startup Expo Ambassador, YC-backed AI company (Freelance, NYC, Nov 17 to 19) Manicule Freelance Technical Content Writer Autumn Founding Growth JustAI Senior Demand Generation Manager Stepful Field & Events Marketing Manager Flick Reddit Growth Intern Confident AI Founding Growth Engineer Infera Founding Growth Lead Coval Product Marketer Brickanta Brand Marketing Manager Abacum Marketing Manager, Lifecycle Zip Lead Product Marketing Manager, Compete Forage Growth Marketing Manager Mederva Head of Marketing & Growth HUD Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Cozmo AI Founding Growth & Marketing Lead