UK remote
OpenBase LLC: Head of Growth & Operations
About this role
Headquarters: US URL: https://openbase.ai/ Head of Growth & Operations — Openbase.ai Full-time | Remote | Reports directly to the Founder About Openbase Openbase.ai is an AI gateway that helps developers and businesses access multiple AI models through one API. We simplify model access, routing, and usage management so teams can focus on building AI products. Our MVP is ready. We are hiring a hands-on leader to own our go-to-market strategy, day-to-day business execution, and journey from launch to our first 10,000 users.
The opportunity You will work directly with the founder to turn Openbase into a growing business with repeatable customer acquisition, strong retention, and disciplined operations. You will own the commercial execution: finding our first customers, testing acquisition channels, improving onboarding, building partnerships, and organizing the people and systems needed to grow. Our ambition is 10,000 users. Your responsibility is to build a credible, measurable path toward that goal, with clear milestones for activated developers, retained customers, paying accounts, and profitable usage.
What you will own 1. Go-to-market and customer acquisition Identify our strongest initial customer segments, including AI startups, independent developers, agencies, and software teams. Develop our positioning and explain why developers should choose Openbase. Launch and improve acquisition across X, SEO, visibility in AI search engines, developer communities, partnerships, and targeted outbound. Test paid campaigns with clear budgets, conversion tracking, and criteria for scaling or stopping.
Build a growth roadmap with weekly experiments and monthly acquisition targets. 2. Developer activation and retention Own the journey from website visit to signup, first successful API request, first payment, and ongoing usage. Work with engineering to remove onboarding friction and improve documentation, quickstarts, and integration examples. Speak directly with developers to understand why they try Openbase, keep using it, or leave.