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title: 'AI-native Growth Hacker at Hercules'
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# AI-native Growth Hacker at Hercules

- **Company:** Hercules
- **Location:** North America / Western Europe / Eastern Australia
- **Compensation:** $100k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hercules/976080b9-d8d4-4faf-978d-adfc4663dca9

## Job description

Hercules is hiring AI-native growth hackers. Your job is to help us grow from 100k users and $XM of revenue to 100M users and $100M+ revenue as quickly as possible. You will have an unlimited AI budget.

We are looking for true AI power users. Not people who use ChatGPT to be 10 to 20% more productive. We want people who can use AI plus code to 100x themselves and do things that were not possible two years ago.

If you are a growth hacker at the cutting edge of AI, with a voracious appetite for experimentation, and you want the budget to scale your best playbook, this role is for you.

## What you will do

- Pick one specific growth wedge and own it end-to-end (programmatic SEO, paid ads, lifecycle, etc.).
- Build an AI-driven system to execute it at scale.
- Run tight loops: ship, measure, learn, repeat.
- Turn what works into durable infrastructure we keep scaling.

What skills you need need

- Exceptional AI skills (asynchronous agents, automations, evals and QA).
- Strong communication.
- Ability to code (TypeScript-first).
- Track record running successful, large-scale growth strategies

## How we operate

- Urgency: ship fast, iterate, correct quickly.
- Excellence: have taste, get the details right, make outputs simple and self-serve.
- Hunger: work hard, do what it takes, be politely relentless.

## Your application

Pick ONE specific growth play that will have the highest impact and describe it below (examples: programmatic SEO, TikTok ads, partnerships, lifecycle email). In your answer, include:

- The play: What exactly is your play? How does it work? What are the outputs?
- How you will use AI to 100x impact: which AI tools/workflows will you use? How will you ensure high quality?
- Measurement: What metrics will you track? How will you iterate / experiment?
- CAC Payback: How you will ensure this play is profitable?

If we like you and your idea we will quite literally hire you on the spot to go implement this play.

## Compensation

$100k to $250k plus equity (based on seniority and location).

## About Hercules

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hercules is an AI-powered platform that enables users to build full-stack apps, websites, and SaaS products by chatting with AI, without writing code.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed/Series A stage, backed by a16z)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Brendan Falk (CEO) and Grant Gurvis (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software development / no-code / low-code platform
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C; individuals, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and enterprises wanting to build custom software (SaaS, internal tools, eCommerce, mobile apps, landing pages)
- **Mission**: To enable 8.5 billion people to build their own custom software in minutes.

## Products & Services
- **Hercules Platform**: A full-stack, AI-native app and website builder. Users describe what they want in natural language, and Hercules generates a complete application with auth, backend, database, file storage, email, AI features, payments, push notifications, analytics, and hosting. Deploys in one click to a custom domain, App Store, or Google Play Store.
  - Type: SaaS / AI-powered development platform
- **Hercules Commerce**: Built-in payment processing for selling SaaS subscriptions, physical/digital goods, and services.
  - Type: Integrated payments module
- **Hercules CMS**: Content management solution for building websites and marketing pages.
  - Type: Integrated CMS module
- **Hercules Email**: Email sending solution integrated into the platform.
  - Type: Integrated communication module
- **Hercules Files & Media**: File and media storage and management.
  - Type: Integrated storage module

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Millions in revenue (stated on careers page); 300k+ users (stated on homepage)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by a16z (Andreessen Horowitz). Founders previously founded Fig, which was acquired by Amazon and became Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+800% YoY, from <1 to 4 employees on LinkedIn); 24 active job postings; monthly LinkedIn follower growth of +42.9%. The company is less than a year old (founded 2025) and already has millions in revenue.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Unlike retrofitted no-code tools, Hercules is built from the ground up for AI-first development, enabling natural language to full-stack app generation.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders previously built Fig (acquired by AWS), giving them deep expertise in AI coding assistants and developer tools.
- **Full-stack out of the box**: All apps include auth, backend, database, payments, hosting, and 1000s of API integrations — no stitching together separate services.
- **Scalable infrastructure**: Designed to scale apps to millions of users, with infrastructure built on Cloudflare and AWS.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Building out platform modules (Commerce, CMS, Email, Files) to make Hercules a complete app-building ecosystem.
- **AI agent features**: Developing multi-agent editing, subagents, and browser automation capabilities.
- **Marketplace**: Planning infrastructure for customers to sell app templates.
- **Collaboration**: Adding multiplayer, comments/annotations, and team features.
- **Scaling team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, product, growth, and customer operations (24 open roles as of July 2026).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, high-agency environment with operating principles: "move with urgency," "strive for excellence," and "be hungry." Strong preference for shipping quickly and iterating.
- **Work model**: Strong preference for in-office at San Francisco HQ (Kearny and Bush). Remote considered for exceptional candidates in US time zones who can travel to the office regularly.
- **Compensation**: $100k–$250k + equity (varies by seniority, equity, and location).
- **Benefits**: Healthcare, vision, dental; daily lunches, dinners, and snacks in office; unlimited vacation; use of any AI productivity tools.
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers expected to be strong in system design, architecture, and AI coding tools. They work with a modern stack: React, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Cloudflare, AWS, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google models. Engineers talk directly with users and ship autonomously.
- **Team size**: Very small (4 employees as of LinkedIn data) — early-stage, high-impact roles with significant ownership.

## Sources
1. [hercules.app - Careers](https://hercules.app/careers)
2. [hercules.app - Homepage](https://hercules.app/)
3. [hercules.app - Who We Are](https://hercules.app/docs/company/who-we-are)
4. [hercules.app - Software Engineer Product Job Posting](https://hercules.app/careers/software-engineer-product)
5. [LinkedIn - Hercules](https://www.linkedin.com/company/herculeshq)

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