Growth Associate
LinkedIn|Hunch|Delhi, Delhi, India|30 Jul 2026
JOB DESCRIPTION
What is Hunch?
Hunch is a dating app built for follow-through - designed to turn mutual interest into a real first date instead of another chat thread that fizzles out. Built for people tired of mindless swiping and commodified matchmaking, Hunch uses an AI matchmaker to cut the week of back-and-forth and get two interested people out of the app and into the same room.
With 2.4M+ daters, 1.47M+ dates planned, and 100% photo-verified profiles, Hunch is growing fast in the US by challenging the swipe-left/right norm of traditional apps. Hunch is a Series A funded ($23 Million) startup building the future of social discovery in a post-AI world.
Link to our fundraising announcement
Key Offerings Of Hunch
We are looking for a Growth Associate to join our growth team. This role will report directly to Kartic Rakhra, Co-founder & CMO, and will sit at the intersection of operations, data and AI.
Hunch's growth engine is built on organic reach: a fast-growing network of content creators producing short-form video at scale to drive product adoption in the US. The company is set up to grow 100x over the next few years, and organic distribution is the front line of that plan: more creators, more content, and a step change in the reach we generate every month. You will work directly with the CMO to run, measure and scale this machine.
This is not a narrow specialist role. Concretely, in a given month you could be running the day-to-day operations of our creator program, digging through funnel data to find out why one cohort of creators outperforms another, designing an incentive experiment and reading its results honestly, building an AI-assisted workflow that removes a manual bottleneck, or scoping a brand-new acquisition channel from zero - sometimes all in the same week. The split between ops, analysis and building shifts depending on what growth needs at any given time.
You won't be figuring everything out alone. You'll work directly with a founder, inside a team that is unusually AI-forward - much of our growth infrastructure is already run by automation and AI agents, and you'll be expected to extend it, not fight it.
This is a full-time role based out of Delhi. And since the market we're growing in is the US, the job runs on US time as much as Indian time - creators post, trends break and numbers move while Delhi sleeps, so regular overlap with US hours (evenings IST) is part of the role's rhythm, not an exception to it.
Key Responsibilities
Creator Program Operations
Hunch is a small team focused on shipping the parts of dating that usually stall - getting two interested people into the same room.
What We Hire For - The ABCs
Most companies have a long list of values nobody remembers. We have three, and they show up in how we hire, what we ship, and how we talk about the work:
Hunch is backed by Hashed, AlphaWave, Brevan Howard and Polygon Studios.
Experienced Leadership
Hunch is founded by a trio of industry veterans: Ish Goel (CEO), Nitika Goel (CPO), and Kartic Rakhra (CMO) - serial entrepreneurs with their last exit from Nexus Mutual, a web3 consumer-tech startup.
Hunch is a dating app built for follow-through - designed to turn mutual interest into a real first date instead of another chat thread that fizzles out. Built for people tired of mindless swiping and commodified matchmaking, Hunch uses an AI matchmaker to cut the week of back-and-forth and get two interested people out of the app and into the same room.
With 2.4M+ daters, 1.47M+ dates planned, and 100% photo-verified profiles, Hunch is growing fast in the US by challenging the swipe-left/right norm of traditional apps. Hunch is a Series A funded ($23 Million) startup building the future of social discovery in a post-AI world.
Link to our fundraising announcement
Key Offerings Of Hunch
- One Drop a Day: A small, hand-picked set of photo-verified profiles arrives daily - chosen for taste, lifestyle, and who's actually free to meet. So every profile gets real attention instead of a mindless swipe.
- Interest Becomes a Plan: When both people want to meet, Hunch's AI matchmaker turns mutual interest into a confirmed date with a real time and place - no logistics to manage.
- Every Match, Verified: Every profile is matched to a live photo before it appears in anyone's drop. No bots, no catfishing - just real, trustworthy connections.
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Built to Move: Chats close after seven days and users hold a few conversations at a time - nudges designed to get people out the door, not scrolling forever.
We are looking for a Growth Associate to join our growth team. This role will report directly to Kartic Rakhra, Co-founder & CMO, and will sit at the intersection of operations, data and AI.
Hunch's growth engine is built on organic reach: a fast-growing network of content creators producing short-form video at scale to drive product adoption in the US. The company is set up to grow 100x over the next few years, and organic distribution is the front line of that plan: more creators, more content, and a step change in the reach we generate every month. You will work directly with the CMO to run, measure and scale this machine.
This is not a narrow specialist role. Concretely, in a given month you could be running the day-to-day operations of our creator program, digging through funnel data to find out why one cohort of creators outperforms another, designing an incentive experiment and reading its results honestly, building an AI-assisted workflow that removes a manual bottleneck, or scoping a brand-new acquisition channel from zero - sometimes all in the same week. The split between ops, analysis and building shifts depending on what growth needs at any given time.
You won't be figuring everything out alone. You'll work directly with a founder, inside a team that is unusually AI-forward - much of our growth infrastructure is already run by automation and AI agents, and you'll be expected to extend it, not fight it.
This is a full-time role based out of Delhi. And since the market we're growing in is the US, the job runs on US time as much as Indian time - creators post, trends break and numbers move while Delhi sleeps, so regular overlap with US hours (evenings IST) is part of the role's rhythm, not an exception to it.
Key Responsibilities
Creator Program Operations
- Run the day-to-day operations of Hunch's creator program: onboarding, activation, content pipelines, and creator support.
- Own operational quality - spot where creators get stuck, unblock them fast, and fix the process so the next hundred creators never hit the same wall.
- Manage incentive and payout operations with accuracy and care - creator trust is the foundation of the program.
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Build playbooks, SLAs and processes that let a small team run a very large creator network.
- Own the numbers: track the creator funnel end-to-end (acquisition → onboarding → first post → sustained output → views) and know at any moment where the leak is.
- Run weekly performance reviews of content and creators - what's working, what's fading, what to double down on.
- Design and run growth experiments (incentive structures, content formats, hooks, acquisition channels), define success upfront, and read results honestly - including when the answer is "it didn't work."
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Turn messy data into clear, decision-ready recommendations for leadership.
- Use AI tools and agents aggressively to automate operations - reporting, review queues, creator communication, quality checks - so that headcount never becomes the bottleneck to scale.
- Prototype and ship internal workflows that multiply the team's output; identify recurring manual work and eliminate it.
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Stay current on AI tooling and bring the best of it into how the growth team works.
- Scope and launch new growth channels, partnerships and programs from the ground up - problem definition, research, vendor and partner outreach, pilot, and scale-or-kill decision.
- Lead structured research and prepare clear decision notes on new markets, channels, tools and business models.
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Work directly with the CMO on high-priority projects that don't fall neatly within a single function.
- 1–4 years of experience in growth, operations, analytics, consulting, or a startup generalist role - or a track record that proves you can operate at that level.
- Strong analytical skills: genuinely comfortable working with data, spreadsheets, and dashboards; SQL proficiency (or the demonstrated ability to pick it up fast).
- Hands-on fluency with AI tools - you already use them daily to work faster, and can show it.
- Strong operational instincts: you can take a messy, ambiguous process and turn it into something that runs reliably at 10x the volume.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - you can compress a week of analysis into five clear sentences.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.
- Comfort working directly with founders and cross-functional teams.
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Strong ownership and attention to detail.
- High energy and ambitious: you want to be part of a 100x growth story and you bring the intensity that requires - this role is for someone who finds that exciting, not exhausting.
- Coachable: you actively seek feedback, absorb it fast, and visibly improve week over week. Ego doesn't get in the way of getting better.
- Curious: you ask a lot of small, useful questions - about creators, about the data, about why a number moved - and you dig until you actually understand.
- Data-first: you form opinions from evidence, change them when the evidence changes, and never present a number you haven't verified.
- A builder and operator: you take responsibility for moving things forward without waiting for perfect instructions, and you'd rather ship a working v1 today than a perfect plan next month.
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AI-forward: you actively look for ways technology can improve the quality and speed of the work - yours and the team's.
- Competitive pay along with an annual performance-linked incentive (PLI).
- Employee benefits like Medical Insurance.
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Participation in Employee Phantom Grants Program (Stock Options).
Hunch is a small team focused on shipping the parts of dating that usually stall - getting two interested people into the same room.
What We Hire For - The ABCs
Most companies have a long list of values nobody remembers. We have three, and they show up in how we hire, what we ship, and how we talk about the work:
- Authenticity - Real before polished. We build for real people on real first dates, and we hire the same way. No theater. If something's not working, say so; if it is, ship it.
- Boldness - Dating got stuck because nobody wanted to break the pattern. We make the call on what to ship, what to cut, and what doesn't belong in the product, even when it's the harder choice.
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Curiosity - The best people here ask a lot of small, useful questions — about users, about the data, about each other's work. We trust people who keep learning over people who already know.
- Ownership, not theater - You own outcomes, not status updates. Fewer meetings, fewer dashboards, more shipping.
- Flexibility that's real - We care about the work, not the hours you sit at a desk. Take the afternoon, take the week - show up for the stuff that matters.
- Move fast, don't burn out - Hunch ships quickly because we cut the slow stuff, not because we work people into the ground. Velocity comes from focus, not from hours.
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Small team, big problems - You'll work on things that matter to millions of people trying to actually meet someone. Every role moves the product.
Hunch is backed by Hashed, AlphaWave, Brevan Howard and Polygon Studios.
Experienced Leadership
Hunch is founded by a trio of industry veterans: Ish Goel (CEO), Nitika Goel (CPO), and Kartic Rakhra (CMO) - serial entrepreneurs with their last exit from Nexus Mutual, a web3 consumer-tech startup.