Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

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.

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, we’ve scaled what works for ourselves and our customers.

Two things, ~50/50:

1. 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.

2. R&D. 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.

If you're a founder who raised a seed round, built something real, or personally drove material pipeline growth at your own startup, you're probably a good fit. We want evidence of compounding work.

Goose is an OpenClaw-style AI coworker that can do real GTM work. 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.