Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

OpenClaw-style AI coworkers for GTM teams

Gooseworks is hiring a Founding Growth Engineer!

This is a builder role for someone who lives in Claude Code / Codex / OpenClaw / Hermes and is obsessed with growth as a craft. Not a typical sales / marketer role.

Half your time goes to building, operating and tuning AI-powered growth engines for customers; the other half goes to R&D — turning what works into self-serve playbooks that Goose agents can run autonomously.

Gooseworks is the workspace where companies stand up and manage teams of AI coworkers that do real growth work — outbound, content, SEO/AEO, Reddit growth, partnerships, UGC, influencer marketing, and more.

Each coworker has its own computer, memory, files, channels, skills, and tools. Our thesis: Growth & GTM work is about to transform the way coding did three years ago. The bottleneck isn't the models — it's orchestration, context, and the workspace these agents live in.

Our wedge ICP is founders, GTM engineers and growth operators at fast growing startups. People who know what good growth looks like and want to execute 10x faster.

We’re a small team of 3 people that previously built Athina AI, an LLM observability & evaluation platform that was used by companies like Perplexity, You.com, Doximity, Meesho, and several public companies.

Gooseworks is new, only a couple of months old.

In the last couple of months itself, we’ve:

A large part of this was done by Goose, our AI coworker.

Now we’re scaling what works. More, bigger, better for ourselves and our customers.

You own customer outcomes. End-to-end. Outbound campaigns, SEO content, Reddit growth, AEO, influencer sourcing — whatever moves the customer's KPI. You build the engine (skills, automations, context, integrations), run it, and iterate weekly with the customer until the numbers move.

The bar isn't "we shipped the engine." It's "the customer hit their KPI."

Every customer engine you build becomes a templatized playbook in Gooseworks. You're the loop that turns one-off agency work into self-serve product. You also push the boundaries of what Goose agents can do autonomously — new agent architectures, new skills, new playbooks for channels we haven't cracked yet.

You'll contribute to our public skills repo, ship cornerstone agent systems, and help define what "an AI coworker that runs growth" actually means.

If you're one of these, you're probably a good fit.

You raised a seed round and built something real, bootstrapped a profitable business, got acquired by a credible buyer, or personally drove material pipeline / revenue / audience growth at your own startup.

Viral launches and Product Hunt #1s don't clear the bar on their own — those are gameable and one-time. We want evidence of compounding work.

You've personally taken a startup from X → Y on growth, with measurable proof:

You've run growth-as-a-service for multiple companies. You think in systems, not channels.

Goose is an OpenClaw-style AI coworker that can do real GTM work. Goose can find high-signal leads, run your SEO, run outbound campaigns, track competitors, pull marketing reports, manage your CRM and much more.

Goose has its own filesystem, memories, mailbox and accounts. You can talk to Goose from Slack, Telegram, mail or anywhere just like any other coworker, and ask it to get work done.