Alpha Signal, LLC Head of Growth Remote · Full time Company website

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AlphaSignal is building the intelligence layer for AI - a real-time, machine-readable map of everything happening in the field, linked into a single knowledge graph. We run the first real-time AI ranking system and the first autonomous editorial system in the world. Our newsletter reaches 300,000+ subscribers, making it the most-read independent AI publication on the internet.

About AlphaSignal

AlphaSignal is building the Bloomberg of the AI industry — the dominant source of news for AI engineers, developers, researchers, and decision makers.

AlphaSignal pioneered the first fully automated AI newsroom and has become a trusted daily source for 320,000+ developers, engineers, researchers, and technical leaders. We cover the companies, products, research, and ideas shaping AI — and our audience engagement is roughly 2–3x the industry average.

Now we’re building the next chapter: AI media website and a premium subscription product. Our near-term mission is concrete and ambitious: 1 million monthly website visitors, 10,000 paid subscribers, and a scalable subscriber acquisition engine.

We’re looking for our first Head of Growth to build it, own it, and turn AlphaSignal into the place every serious person in AI goes to understand their industry.

The Role

You will own growth across the entire customer acquisition funnel. Your mission is to increase qualified traffic, convert visitors into paid subscribers, and build a repeatable growth engine with strong unit economics.

This is a hands-on leadership role for an operator, not a manager of agencies. You understand what moves subscriber growth, what doesn’t, and why. You will report directly to the founders and own growth strategy, experimentation, budget allocation, measurement, and execution.

What You’ll Own

• Own subscriber acquisition from first touch through paid conversion
• Build and optimize LTV-positive acquisition funnels
• Increase visitor-to-paid conversion rates
• Develop and execute a multi-channel acquisition strategy
• Design and run continuous growth experiments
• Build attribution and measurement systems
• Allocate marketing budgets across acquisition channels
• Forecast CAC, LTV, payback period, and subscriber growth
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Editorial, and Design to improve acquisition and conversion

Who We’re Looking For

You have already scaled both traffic and paid subscriptions at a digital subscription business with free and paid products. This is non-negotiable: we are looking for someone who has personally taken these numbers up and to the right at scale — not someone who has only managed a line item, run brand campaigns, or overseen agencies.

You understand the unique challenges of converting free readers into paying subscribers. You have personally owned acquisition strategy, experimentation, budget allocation, attribution, and conversion optimization.

Requirements

• Proven track record of personally scaling both website traffic and paid subscribers at a digital subscription business
• 4+ years leading growth or subscriber acquisition at a digital subscription business
• Experience growing a business with both free and paid users
• Experience managing significant paid acquisition budgets
• Proven track record of growing paid subscribers with positive unit economics
• Strong understanding of attribution, marketing analytics, and experimentation
• Experience working closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Editorial teams
• Comfortable building dashboards and making data-driven decisions

Channel Experience

You should have hands-on experience testing and scaling acquisition across some of the following channels: Google Search, Meta, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, podcast advertising, creator partnerships, UGC, influencer marketing, affiliate programs, sponsorships, SEO, AI search, email acquisition, and referral programs.

You understand the strengths, weaknesses, economics, and scaling limits of each channel. You know when a channel is worth investing in, how to test it efficiently, and when to stop spending.

Data & Analytics

You are highly analytical and make decisions using data. You have experience building and managing reporting around CAC, LTV, LTV:CAC, payback period, funnel conversion, cohort retention, attribution, incrementally, marketing efficiency, and budget allocation. You understand the limitations of attribution platforms and know how to measure the true impact of marketing investments.

Success in This Role

Within your first 12 months, you will build a scalable subscriber acquisition engine, grow qualified website traffic toward 1 million monthly visitors, significantly increase paid subscribers while maintaining healthy unit economics, establish reliable attribution across acquisition channels, build an experimentation culture with rapid testing and iteration, and create dashboards that give the leadership team clear visibility into growth performance.