Growth & Strategy Lead, Office of the CEO

Auxia•Palo Alto, CA

85d•$150,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Auxia is seeking a Growth & Strategy Lead to work directly with its founders and CEO. This role will own critical questions regarding market expansion, product strategy, and customer acquisition for the next 18 months. The position is hands-on, requiring the individual to not only develop strategies but also to execute them personally, including sourcing accounts, participating in deals, crafting messaging, and contributing to the product roadmap based on learnings. The company is open to diverse backgrounds, prioritizing rapid learning and execution ability ('slope') over extensive resumes. This role offers a unique opportunity for individuals, whether experienced consultants seeking execution ownership or recent graduates aiming for accelerated career growth, to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

Profile A: Future Founder. 2–4 years in top-tier strategy consulting, banking, PE/VC, or a strategy-and-ops seat at a fast-growing startup. You've done strategy work at a high standard and you've been quietly frustrated that the execution went to someone else.
Profile B: Asymmetric Upside. 0–2 years out of school, possibly zero. You were the person who ran the thing on campus, or built a business in your dorm, or has 40,000 followers from videos you taught yourself to edit. You are unreasonably intense, you learn at a rate that unsettles people, and you're looking for the job where you get five years of experience in eighteen months.
Slope over intercept. We care more about how fast you got to where you are than where that is.
You make things. Video, decks, sites, prototypes, newsletters, a business, a club that outlived you. Evidence you build and ship, not only advise.
Structured thinking under pressure. You can take a messy question and produce something a CEO can act on. If you haven't done this professionally, show us you've done it somewhere.
Commercially wired. You want to drive results for the business.
AI-native. Our own agents are part of how you'll work. This should already be true of you.
Low need for process, high tolerance for ambiguity. Some weeks this role is 70% deals; some weeks it's 70% strategy. You'll know which by reading the situation, not by asking.
You won't be expected to know how enterprise pricing works but you will be expected to figure it out in three weeks, in the open, without being managed.

Nice To Haves

Develop taste, judgment about what actually persuades an enterprise buyer, and the willingness to ship extremely quickly.

Responsibilities

Own the market map: segmentation, ICP definition, competitive positioning, and a defensible view of where agentic marketing is heading and where we should be standing when it arrives.
Run the analyses that decide real things like pricing and packaging architecture, verticalization, partnership strategy, build/buy/partner calls.
Turn it into a plan with numbers attached: targets, sequencing, and what we deliberately stop doing. You'll defend those docs in leadership meetings.
Decide where the funnel points and go create the demand yourself: account strategy, outbound thesis, partnerships, events, the content engine, and any unconventional play you can defend with a number.
Own the external narrative as a strategic asset: positioning architecture, messaging hierarchy, proof points, and the point of view that makes a CMO reconsider how her team is organized.
Take it to market at volume with video as the necessary instrument: product demos, customer stories, founder POV, launch moments, and the short-form cadence that compounds into distribution.
Work hand in hand with engineering to make sure that customer feedback is reflected in the product.
Build the business cases, pilot designs, and customer use cases weâ€™ll build and sell.
Write the specs for the gaps you find, and prototype with our own agents, we expect you to be a power user of the thing we sell.
Be inside the story we tell investors, not downstream of it: metrics narrative, market-sizing work, competitive framing in board materials.
Build the proof-of-traction assets that get used in the next raise.
Help us mine an investor base that includes operators who ran marketing at Google and Booking.com and business at Meta, rather than letting it sit in a cap table.