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Growth Lead, Paid

Middesk · New York · Remote

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About Middesk

Middesk brings business verification, risk assessment, AI agent investigations, and ongoing monitoring into one platform. Onboard customers faster with less manual work. Backed by Accel, Insight and Sequoia.

About the role

Paid acquisition is being rebuilt by the same forces reshaping every other growth channel: real-time bidding, intent data, and AI-assisted creative testing are making it possible to run paid as a true demand engine with a defensible payback model, instead of a budget line an agency manages on your behalf. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Senior IC role 5+ years of hands-on paid acquisition experience or demand gen marketing
  • A strategic thinker who can see the whole paid motion, channel mix, measurement, creative, and landing pages, and build one coordinated system rather than optimize a single channel in isolation
  • A track record of personally owning a number end to end in a high-growth environment, with real budget accountability, not just channel execution
  • Has run paid media across more than one channel at real budget, not just "a Google Ads person" or "a LinkedIn ads person"
  • Enough measurement discipline to defend a CAC and payback model to the CEO or CRO directly, and comfortable killing a channel that isn't working even when it's familiar
  • Enough technical fluency to hold an agency accountable, rather than rubber-stamp their recommendations
More about this role

Middesk is building the data and intelligence infrastructure that helps businesses work together with confidence. We started by creating a comprehensive platform for understanding businesses, bringing together authoritative and proprietary data to help customers verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and manage risk throughout the customer lifecycle.

Today, Middesk is used by more than 700 banks and fintechs, and in 2025 we verified more than 7 million companies. We've also expanded beyond business verification to help companies form, register, manage, and maintain their businesses, supporting more than 50,000 companies in setting up over 100,000 accounts required to hire employees, run payroll, and stay compliant.

Middesk came out of Y Combinator, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi. We're proud to be named on the Forbes Fintech 50 and Best Startup Employers lists.

Paid acquisition is being rebuilt by the same forces reshaping every other growth channel: real-time bidding, intent data, and AI-assisted creative testing are making it possible to run paid as a true demand engine with a defensible payback model, instead of a budget...

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