Founding Growth & Operations Lead

Dryft • San Francisco, CA

53d

About The Position

As Founding Growth & Operations Lead, you’ll work directly with our CEO to take Dryft to a scalable company. While you’ll lead go-to-market, you’ll operate at the intersection of customers, product, and company-building — traveling on-site to deeply understand customer workflows, meeting with C-level leaders of multi-billion-dollar manufacturers, and helping shape how Dryft grows, operates, and scales. This is a founder-track role with extreme ownership. You’ll work side by side with the founding team, influencing key decisions on strategy, product, and growth — and building the foundation for how Dryft scales.

Requirements

• Hands-on & resourceful – You have a founder’s mindset: you don’t wait for instructions, you make things happen. Whether it’s a customer call, a product test, or hiring setup — you jump in, find creative ways forward, and get things done.
• Builder mindset – You don’t sell features; you solve problems. You listen deeply, ask sharp questions, and translate messy realities into scalable systems and products that actually work.
• Ultra-professional & detail-obsessed - you earn trust with structure, polish, and docs so clean even a CFO would shed a tear
• Down-to-earth & relatable - you bond with shop-floor operators as easily as with boardroom execs, build trust and lasting relationships
• Technically curious - You’re not afraid of technical depth and can explain complex topics simply; ideally you have a technical background
• Fluent German & English Speaker - Our customers are global, and you’ll move between San Francisco, US Midwest, Mexico and the heart of German manufacturing.
• 1–4 years of experience in a commercial or operational role; prior consulting experience is beneficial, though not required

Responsibilities

• Owning go-to-market – Identify the most promising manufacturing companies for our solution and lead them from first contact through product and business-case discussions to closing — turning early wins into repeatable playbooks for growth.
• Jumping in where it matters most – Whether it’s refining pitch materials, helping with hiring, onboarding new customers, supporting fundraising, or unblocking internal processes — you’re hands-on and solve what’s most critical for the company to move forward.
• Translating customer insight into product – Work hand-in-hand with our technical team to turn real-world feedback into features and improvements that create measurable impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed