🎯 Our Mission
Linus is on a mission to make studying for the SAT fun, free, and effective for all students.
Over 2 million students take the SAT each and every year - the most important test of a young person’s life. But outcomes are highly inequitable, with affluent students able to afford high-priced private tutors while others have to rely on borrowed and out-of-date textbooks.
Linus is determined to close this equity gap and bring effective test prep into the 21st century.
🦄 What sets us apart
Fun. Free. Effective. Linus combines the latest science and a game-like experience to create a compelling SAT adventure that results in higher scores, more confidence and greater access to a better future for all students – for free. Read more about our approach here.
🌱 Stage
Linus is a seed-stage company with a v1 product live at https://linusprep.com. We are bringing on a Head of Growth, employee #7, who will be the first growth hire and who will own all of our growth channels in both B2C and B2B.
Linus is well-funded by Owl Ventures, the world’s largest edtech investor with $2B AUM.
🤝 Founders & Team
Linus was founded by serial entrepreneurs Niko Vuori and Cory Johnson. They have raised more than $20M in funding from top-tier investors across the companies they have founded and have a successful exit with Rocket Games in 2016. They are joined by a team of early-stage enthusiasts who love going from zero to one (and then blasting way beyond 🚀).
🌈 Opportunity
We’re looking for a Head of Growth to join the core leadership team, lead all of Linus’s growth, and help millions of young people gain access to a better life. Linus’s Head of Growth will work closely with the CEO to establish strategy, drive adoption through B2C and B2B channels and implement paid and organic growth initiatives.
meaningful equity (employee #7)
flexible PTO & fully remote work
generous health, vision, and dental insurance
401(k)
long-term disability, short-term disability and life insurance
quarterly week-long team offsites
📋 What you’ll work on
Own the growth engine end-to-end and build a world-class marketing team.
Build & scale paid channels, including Google SEM, Meta, and TikTok
Build & scale lifecycle marketing, including email, SMS and WhatsApp
Build out social, including YouTube, TikTok, Discord, Snapchat, Insta and Reddit
Build & scale B2B channels, including schools, counselors, tutors and nonprofits
Onboard, manage and grow a network of test prep & education influencers
Onboard and manage agency & contractor relationships
Work closely with Product to integrate our marketing efforts holistically
Work with the CEO to build out the Linus brand into a household name (IRL events, campus ambassadors, national competitions, new verticals, merch etc)
Establish and track key marketing metrics to guide us as we grow
💪 You are
Experienced but hungry: you have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in frontline B2C/B2B subscription growth marketing, but you are eager to go to the next level
Data-informed but gutsy: you love to leverage, manipulate and extract insights from data to inform your decision-making, but you take pride in your well-developed instincts
Mission-driven but practical: you yearn to build a generational company that will positively impact millions of lives, but you recognize that Rome wasn’t built in a day
Results-oriented but collaborative: you take initiative and drive straight to outcomes, but you love being on a team that takes shared ownership of its successes and failures
Gravitas personified but humble: you command attention and inspire confidence in any room, but you remain approachable, authentic, and connected to those around you
Fast but deliberate: you bias towards action, but you do so intentionally, with a specific hypothesis in mind that can drive a step function change up and to the right