Gooseworks Verified
Digital Agency, Custom Software Development, IT Services, Marketing Technology
Founding Creative Engineer
San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull Time$120,000–$200,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoHidden Gem · YC Startup
Required skills
- AI agents
- growth
- distribution
- content systems
- AI video
- systems thinking
- creative taste
- experimentation
- creator channels
- organic social content
Nice to have
- technical background
- content creator muscle
- short-form content
Role summary
GooseWorks is building AI agents to automate growth and distribution for consumer brands, handling everything from ad creatives to organic social content. They are seeking a Founding Creative Engineer to own growth and distribution. This role involves building scalable content systems, leveraging AI agents, and applying creative judgment to improve content performance. The ideal candidate has strong creative taste, experience with AI video generation and content systems, thinks in systems, and is deeply familiar with AI agents and harnesses. Preferences include a technical background and proven content creation skills. This is a 0->1, high-ownership role with significant experimentation and fast iteration cycles.
**_Growth = your taste \* a fleet of video agents \* lots of experiment._**
**_We want someone who can own this._**
### About GooseWorks
**Distribution is the hardest problem every company has.** Getting a product in front of people, over and over, in a way that works.
Today that means an army of humans making creative, testing it, reading the numbers, and doing it again next week. It doesn't scale, and it's the single biggest tax on every consumer brand in the world.
We think that changes. The billion-dollar companies of the next decade will look different. They won't scale linearly with headcount — they'll be run by fleets of AI agents running growth.
**Gooseworks is building self-improving AI agents that run growth for consumer brands — ads, UGC, organic — end to end.**
It’s early - this is just a few months old, but we have very strong pull and are growing fast:
* **200+ paying users**
* **30,000+ ad creatives generated by our users in the last 2 months**
We're a YC company based in San Francisco, and **we run the company on agent harnesses ourselves**.
### The role
You will **own** **growth and distribution** for GooseWorks.
Your job will be to **build the systems to scale content**, and having the **creative taste and judgement** to improve them.
More specifically, you will own:
* **Creator channels, AI-operated.** You design the niche, the format, the hooks, the content, everything and use our AI creative agent to make organic social content at SCALE.
* **Our voice on X and LinkedIn**. Not "brand content", value content and stories that get noticed.
* **The taste layer of our creative agent.** You'll teach our creative agent what "good" means. It's the highest-leverage work at this company.
* **Launches.** Narrative, assets, video, sequencing, day-of. End to end, from a blank page.
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### What we're looking for
1. **Taste.** You know what good content looks like. You have a great sense of design. You understand what people resonate with.
2. **Proof-of-work:** We need to see that you can make short-form that performs. IG, TikTok, YouTube, etc.
3. **Technical AI video skills.** You know what it takes to make great content using AI, and you’ve already been doing it.
4. **You think in systems.** We’re not looking for someone to write content. We’re looking for someone to build the thing that does.
5. **You live inside AI agents.** Claude Code, Codex, etc. You understand what a harness is and how to build one.
**Strong preferences for:**
* **a technical background**
* **proven content creator muscle**
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### This is a 0→1 job
That means:
* **High ownership**: You'll own channels end-to-end, whatever that might mean. You’ll have autonomy and a high degree of creative control.
* **Lots of experimentation**: You’ll try lots of things fast and double down on what works.
* **Messy problems, fast loops.** Ship daily, execute is measured in hours, not weeks.
* **You're part of the founding team.**
### You're probably not a fit if
* You’re used to working with large teams to get things done.
* You have never created awesome content.
* You have never built a content systems or agent skills / harnesses.
* You think AI-generated content can never be more than slop. (we’re looking for someone to prove the world wrong)
**_We want someone who can own this._**
### About GooseWorks
**Distribution is the hardest problem every company has.** Getting a product in front of people, over and over, in a way that works.
Today that means an army of humans making creative, testing it, reading the numbers, and doing it again next week. It doesn't scale, and it's the single biggest tax on every consumer brand in the world.
We think that changes. The billion-dollar companies of the next decade will look different. They won't scale linearly with headcount — they'll be run by fleets of AI agents running growth.
**Gooseworks is building self-improving AI agents that run growth for consumer brands — ads, UGC, organic — end to end.**
It’s early - this is just a few months old, but we have very strong pull and are growing fast:
* **200+ paying users**
* **30,000+ ad creatives generated by our users in the last 2 months**
We're a YC company based in San Francisco, and **we run the company on agent harnesses ourselves**.
### The role
You will **own** **growth and distribution** for GooseWorks.
Your job will be to **build the systems to scale content**, and having the **creative taste and judgement** to improve them.
More specifically, you will own:
* **Creator channels, AI-operated.** You design the niche, the format, the hooks, the content, everything and use our AI creative agent to make organic social content at SCALE.
* **Our voice on X and LinkedIn**. Not "brand content", value content and stories that get noticed.
* **The taste layer of our creative agent.** You'll teach our creative agent what "good" means. It's the highest-leverage work at this company.
* **Launches.** Narrative, assets, video, sequencing, day-of. End to end, from a blank page.
---
### What we're looking for
1. **Taste.** You know what good content looks like. You have a great sense of design. You understand what people resonate with.
2. **Proof-of-work:** We need to see that you can make short-form that performs. IG, TikTok, YouTube, etc.
3. **Technical AI video skills.** You know what it takes to make great content using AI, and you’ve already been doing it.
4. **You think in systems.** We’re not looking for someone to write content. We’re looking for someone to build the thing that does.
5. **You live inside AI agents.** Claude Code, Codex, etc. You understand what a harness is and how to build one.
**Strong preferences for:**
* **a technical background**
* **proven content creator muscle**
---
### This is a 0→1 job
That means:
* **High ownership**: You'll own channels end-to-end, whatever that might mean. You’ll have autonomy and a high degree of creative control.
* **Lots of experimentation**: You’ll try lots of things fast and double down on what works.
* **Messy problems, fast loops.** Ship daily, execute is measured in hours, not weeks.
* **You're part of the founding team.**
### You're probably not a fit if
* You’re used to working with large teams to get things done.
* You have never created awesome content.
* You have never built a content systems or agent skills / harnesses.
* You think AI-generated content can never be more than slop. (we’re looking for someone to prove the world wrong)
