⭐ About Daydream
daydream builds growth marketing playbooks for the world’s fastest growing companies.
Note: This role requires candidates to be in-person, in-office 3 days per week in our Hayes Valley, San Francisco office.
We believe the future of growth marketing is one where companies pay for outcomes, rather than tools. Today, we leverage a combination of AI-enabled services + software to execute SEO growth playbooks for companies like Clay, Descript, and Beacons and dozens of others. In the future, we'll expand our capabilities across the entire growth marketing stack, encompassing all essential customer acquisition channels.
We've raised $6.2M from leading investors like First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox as well as notable angels like Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz, Author of Product-Led SEO.
🔧 The problem we’re trying to solve
Every company needs to do two things:
- Build a product.
- Acquire customers.
There are three ways to acquire customers — sales, product-led growth, and growth marketing. Of these three, growth marketing is particularly hard to staff for because great internal talent is find (ex. in SEO, there are probably < 20 people who we would consider world-class), and time-consuming to ramp.
Then there’s the agencies, but agencies are often slow, lack strong technical talent, and in general are associated with poor quality of outcomes.
🧑💻 How We’re Solving This Problem
daydream is different — we’ve built a vertically integrated software + services stack with a singular goal in mind — deliver outstanding outcomes for every customer we service, repeatedly and consistently in a fraction of the time they expect. While we’ve started with SEO, we expect to expand to all other major growth marketing channels over the near future.
👨🏻💻 Who You’ll Be Working With
You’ll join a small, fast-moving team focused on building the future of SEO—and beyond. Here’s who you’ll work with most closely:
- Nicolás Cerdeira — Head of Growth
- Founded and scaled Failory, a startup community and newsletter with 40K+ subscribers, built entirely through SEO and content.
- Led growth for dozens of top venture-backed startups.
- Specializes in building scalable SEO systems powered by software and automation.
- Thenuka Karunaratne — CEO & Co-founder
- Previously founded Flixed.io, which he bootstrapped to $2M+ in revenue through programmatic SEO.
- Former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Hustle Fund.
- Served as Chief of Staff at Pango, a $100M+ cybersecurity company.
Together, we’re building a high-leverage, AI-powered growth engine—and you’ll play a key role in scaling it.
👷🏻♀️ What You’ll Be Doing
As a Growth Manager, your mission is to scale daydream’s Growth Lead team—ensuring we deliver high-impact SEO execution across dozens of client engagements. You’ll:
- Build and lead the Growth Leads team: Recruit, coach, and grow a world-class team of SEO operators.
- Enable high performance: Ensure each Growth Lead has the processes, support, and tools to succeed.
- Own client relationships: Serve as the strategic point of contact for key accounts—communicating performance, aligning on priorities, and managing expectations.
- Drive strategic insight: Monitor SEO performance across customers and surface actionable improvements.
- Improve daydream’s growth systems: Collaborate cross-functionally to iterate on how we deliver SEO, from playbooks to reporting frameworks..
🤓 What You’ll Gain
- High-leverage leadership: Drive key decisions around how daydream hires, structures, and scales its Growth Leads team.
- Strategic scope: Own performance, people, and process across a fast-growing portfolio of companies.
- Opportunity to shape the system: As daydream grows, so will our playbooks, tools, and service. You’ll play a central role in refining how we operate.
- Cross-functional exposure: Work closely with product, engineering, and strategy to push our growth system forward.
✅ You’ll be an excellent fit if you
- Have experience leading teams in growth, SEO, or performance marketing.
- Love helping others do their best work—through systems, coaching, and feedback.
- Are fluent in both strategy and operations—zooming out to set direction, then diving in to execute.
- Communicate clearly with both customers and teammates.
- Are passionate about scaling quality through systems and automation.
- Enjoy building in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
❌ This role won't be a good fit if you
- Prefer to stay hands-off and avoid full ownership of outcomes.
- Struggle with rapid context switching or juggling competing priorities.
- Aren’t energized by building from zero and navigating ambiguity.
- Avoid deep engagement with customers, the product, or the business.
- Only want to work on SEO without touching other growth levers.
👤 Ideal background
- 5–10+ years in growth and SEO roles.
- 3+ years managing people or teams.
- Comfortable with AI tools, content operations, and analytics.
- Prior startup or high-growth environment experience.
- Experience with client-facing roles is a plus (consulting, agency, or in-house).
🏦 Compensation
- Total compensation: $150K–$200K/year, including performance-based bonuses, plus generous equity in daydream.
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
- Hybrid: 3 days/week in our San Francisco office (Hayes Valley).
Compensation Range: $150K - $200K
