Social Media & Growth
US$80,000 – US$185,000 / yr base salary
Posted 9 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Social Media & Growth Lead”
BranchFactor Summary
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- Expected experience
- 1–4 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$80,000 – US$185,000 / yr |
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About HiringCafe
Job discovery is broken. Indeed and LinkedIn want to keep it that way. Join our team and help millions of people put food on the table by finding the perfect job.
HiringCafe is building a 100× better job search engine: fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement.
We are funded by top tier investors in Silicon Valley, along with angel investments from former leadership and directors at Indeed and ZipRecruiter. In 12 months, we grew from 0 to 1 million+ monthly active users, all with a $0 marketing budget. Our 110K+ member community at r/hiringcafe is where our most enthusiastic users talk to us, and to each other, every day.
We got here without a marketing team. Now we want one person to show what happens when someone actually tries.
Our team
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Hamed Nilforoshan: Stanford AI PhD, Data Science at Airbnb & Snapchat
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Ali Mir: SWE at Meta, Rippling, DoorDash
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Jure Leskovec: Stanford AI Professor, ex-Chief Scientist at Pinterest
The role
This is our first dedicated marketing hire, and we would be looking to you to figure out clever and scrappy ways to get the word out about HiringCafe on a tight budget. Nobody will hand you a content calendar, a brand book, or an agency to brief. You will get to represent a not-very-well-known product that a small community of users really love, and will give you the freedom to be bold and try things.
This is not a traditional social media manager job. If your best work has been scheduling approved posts for a major brand or juggling client accounts at an agency, this probably isn't the right fit. If you have bootstrapped a social media following from nothing, and you have made things on your phone that strangers shared, and you would rather post, learn, and adjust than wait for sign-off, then you’re probably a good fit.
You will work directly with the founders, and what you make will reach real job seekers struggling to find a better solution than the big job board that are more motivated by profits than by people.
What you'll do
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Make the content. Concept, script, shoot, edit, and post a steady stream of original content on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn, built for what each platform actually rewards.
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Run our creator program. Find, brief, and manage outside influencers and creators producing sponsored content about HiringCafe. Track what each one delivers and put more behind the ones that work.