Chief Growth Officer, Gaming & eSports

Chief Growth Officer, Gaming & eSports Zark Lab · Full-time · Remote About Zark Lab Zark Lab builds analytical foundation models that deliver real-time intelligence and conversational insights from massive, multi-modal datasets. Our platform powers a fast-growing community of game streamers, gaming squads, and indie developers, alongside enterprise customers across Web3, fintech, and sports. We're a fast-moving team pushing the boundaries of what's possible when you combine advanced AI with large-scale data infrastructure. The Role We're looking for a Chief Growth Officer to own Zark's community-led growth across Twitch, Discord, and Reddit, and to build the team that runs it. This is a community-first role. Our audience lives in Discord servers, Twitch chats, and gaming subreddits, and they have a finely tuned radar for anything that smells like marketing. Your job is to grow Zark in those spaces the way they actually work: by showing up as a real participant, earning trust, building tools and moments creators want to share, and turning players, streamers, and indie devs into a community that grows itself. What You’ll Do Own community-led growth as Zark's primary go-to-market motion, with Twitch, Discord, and Reddit as the core channels. Build and run Zark's Discord presence: server strategy, onboarding, events, moderation, and the day-to-day culture that makes people want to stay. Grow Zark on Reddit through authentic participation across gaming and creator subreddits, AMAs, and content that earns upvotes instead of buying them. Build the Twitch motion: streamer partnerships, creator programs, sponsorships, activations, and reasons for streamers to put Zark on screen. Build a creator and streamer partnership program from the ground up, from micro-creators to established names in gaming and esports. Own the self-serve funnel across the free and paid tiers, including acquisition, activation, conversion, expansion, and retention, with community as the top of the funnel. Create and direct content built for gaming culture: clips, memes, tutorials, and formats native to each platform rather than reskinned ads. Define positioning and messaging that resonates with gamers, streamers, and indie developers, in a voice that sounds like one of them. Own growth analytics across community and funnel: CAC, payback, LTV, conversion, retention, and the dashboards that keep it honest. Partner with the founders on pricing, packaging, and product decisions, and feed community signal back into the roadmap. Ship fast, read the data, and iterate. We prototype in days, not months. What We’re Looking For 8+ years in growth, community, or marketing, with 3+ years leading the function. A gaming or esports background, whether at a game studio, esports organization, streaming platform, gaming brand, or creator company. You know this world from the inside. A track record of building and growing real communities, ideally on Discord, Reddit, and Twitch, with the numbers to show you moved them. Deep fluency in gaming and creator culture. You understand why broadcast marketing dies in these spaces and what actually earns trust instead. Hands-on experience with creator and streamer partnerships, sponsorships, and activations. Product-led, self-serve growth experience: funnels, activation, and conversion at the Free-to-paid boundary. Genuinely data-driven. You live in the analytics, design clean experiments, and can tell signal from noise. A sharp instinct for content, voice, and narrative across platforms with very different cultures. Direct, constructive leadership. You hire well, give real feedback, and grow the people under you. Bias toward shipping. You launch fast, learn from real usage, and don't over-plan.

Nice to Have

Experience growing a developer, prosumer, or creative-tooling product. A personal footprint in gaming or streaming communities, or your own creator experience. Existing relationships across gaming, esports, or the streaming ecosystem. AI/LLM product experience, with the ability to make something technical feel obvious. Early-stage startup experience, comfortable operating with ambiguity and a small team.

Compensation

Significant founding equity with standard vesting terms. Why Zark Lab Own community growth for a platform built for gamers, streamers, and indie devs, at a real inflection point. Work directly with the founders on the highest-leverage problem in the company: turning a great product into a movement. Build the go-to-market in the spaces you already know and love. Remote-first culture with a small, sharp team that moves fast. Competitive compensation with meaningful equity in a company at an inflection point. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job