About Preambient

The people who build the world deserve a financial institution as ambitious as they are. Preambient is a media company at its core, with an AI-native financial institution around it. We are building the autonomous investment banker, and our ambition is to become founders' and business owners' lifelong financial partner. Through our media, we intend to earn the attention and trust that bring clients, exceptional colleagues, and capital.

Preambient is an Entrepreneurs First company, whose investors include Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis. Founded by Phil Hie, based in San Francisco (Mission).

The role

This is a hands-on, founding growth role. You will build and run the full customer acquisition engine yourself, not manage a team. You own acquisition, qualification, and improving conversion alongside the founder, who leads owner calls, advisory, and closing.

What you will do

• Build and run the whole acquisition engine end to end: outbound, automation, events, gifting, partnerships, referrals, paid, and PR
• Turn the reach of our media among founders and business owners into conversations and signed mandates
• Map every potential client (sellers and buyers), what they need, who decides, and how to reach them
• Run fast experiments and turn the winners into repeatable growth
• Help choose where we compete and how we earn the next conversation

Who we serve (US focus):

• Sellers: founders and owners of tech and professional-services businesses with $1M–$100M annual revenue
• Buyers: strategic acquirers, holdcos, rollups, and private equity firms

What success looks like at six months: 40 signed mandates, built from roughly 200 qualified conversations (about eight per week).

Who we're looking for

• You were early at a fast-growing, SMB- or founder-focused startup and helped build its growth (think early growth hires at Ramp, Brex, Mercury, Rho, Gong, Vanta, Gamma, Wispr Flow, or Granola), and/or you have exceptional personal results winning founders and business owners as customers
• You are a hands-on revenue driver. You build the campaigns, write the sequences, and set up the automation yourself
• You can trace the customers you won to your own decisions
• You combine creative judgment with a clear understanding of acquisition costs, conversion, and retention
• You want to help choose the team, set its standards, and shape the institution
• Finance, M&A, or banking experience is NOT required

Why join

Help decide how a new financial institution wins its market. Shape whom we serve, how we reach them, and why they choose us. Help assemble exceptional creative, technical, and financial colleagues, and build a company other marketers study.

Location: San Francisco or New York, in person
Compensation: Exceptional compensation and meaningful equity, shaped around the person.