--- title: 'Founding Content & Social Marketer at Pylon' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-content-social-marketer-pylon-palo-alto-z3te4nw7tsgk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Founding Content & Social Marketer at Pylon - **Company:** Pylon - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-06-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pylon/2998f18e-5770-4b04-af0f-ef5e2de0c0ad/application **Skills:** Social media strategy, Content creation, AI tools, Data analysis, Growth experimentation > Build Pylon's audience and brand presence from the ground up across social platforms. Create high-impact content, run growth experiments, and collaborate with the CEO to establish founder presence in the mortgage industry. ## Job description ## About Pylon America’s $13T mortgage market is one of the most important financial systems in the world. It underwrites the middle class and is the mechanism through which millions of families build wealth. But while every other financial instrument has been simplified to an API call, mortgages are still assembled by hand. We started from zero and created the first vertically integrated mortgage platform that turns origination into a single API. Publicly traded companies and the country’s largest originators are already building on Pylon. Revenue is compounding monthly. We’re backed by Peter Thiel, Conversion Capital, QED, Citi, Fifth Wall, and the founders of Ramp, Blend, and Mercury. Working at Pylon isn’t for those seeking comfort. The people who thrive here have high agency, strong opinions, and a track record of delivering outcomes without direction. Many of us are former founders. We move quickly, challenge each other directly, and take full ownership of results. It’s hard work, but it will be worth it. Join us in building America’s mortgage rails. ## THE ROLE Pylon has more demand than we can support. Our target customer is already watching. Thousands of originators in Facebook groups and online forums are talking about Pylon, curious about what we're building. We need someone who can build a movement and turn that curiosity into conviction. Not through press releases or 12-week content calendars but through having a genuine point of view, knowing how platforms work at a mechanical level, and being willing to do things that feel a little insane. This role is high-ownership and high-latitude. You'll have the budget to run real experiments, direct access to the founding team, and design resources to work with. You're also creative in your own right. The scope is intentionally broad and the best candidate will be excited by that. ## WHAT YOU'LL OWN Distribution Build Pylon's audience from the ground up across X, LinkedIn, and wherever the conversation is actually happening. Own the channel strategy, grow the following, figure out what works and do more of it. Content Create content that earns attention: opinionated takes on the mortgage industry, showcasing our team and customers, original data and research, formats no one in this space has tried yet. You know the difference between a post that gets polite engagement and one that actually makes people think differently. Founder presence Work directly with our CEO to build his presence alongside your own. You'll help translate what Pylon knows about the mortgage industry into content that reaches customers, talent, and investors. Experiments Run growth experiments end-to-end: hypothesis, test, read the results, share what you learned. You'll have the budget and autonomy to test fast. Signal is more important than activity. Community and earned media Identify and activate the channels where our buyers actually are: communities, newsletters, podcasts, events. Build relationships with the writers, operators, and influencers who shape how people in mortgage and fintech think about infrastructure. ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You have taste. You know what great content looks like and why most of it misses. - You've grown something from zero (an account, a community, a product) and you know what actually made it work - You're fluent on social as a practitioner (not just a user). You understand how platforms distribute content and you engineer for it - You've grown a following from zero and can point to the specific moves that made it happen - You've actually built content systems using AI (vs used ChatGPT to write captions) - You can write arguments, narratives, and ideas that make people want to share them - You own the numbers: tracking what's working, why, and can report it back in a way that informs what comes next - You're comfortable being a face of the brand ## WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR - Someone who needs approval to post - Someone who measures success by the size of a content calendar - Someone whose best case study is a rebrand ## HOW TO APPLY Don't send a resume first. Send us something you made: a thread, a post, a campaign, a piece of content you're actually proud of. Tell us what you were trying to do and whether it worked. Tell us about a piece of content you didn't make but wish you had. ## About Pylon ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Pylon is the first vertically integrated, AI-native infrastructure platform that automates the entire mortgage origination lifecycle, from application to capital markets settlement. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series not publicly disclosed; $45M total raised) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States (with a presence in New York, NY; Hungary; and Egypt) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Trent Hedge and Brett Byron (co-founders; full founding team list not publicly detailed, but leadership includes ex-Stripe, ex-Better, and ex-Mercury engineers) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services (Mortgage Technology / Fintech Infrastructure) - **Target customers**: B2B — Mortgage brokers, banks, credit unions, fintechs, and lenders looking to launch or improve mortgage products. - **Mission statement**: "Rebuilding America’s mortgage infrastructure" — turning a fragmented, manual origination stack into a single API-driven, AI-automated platform. ## Products & Services - **Pylon Origination Platform**: A unified, API-first, AI-native mortgage origination system. It handles intake (eligibility, income/asset verification, preapproval), underwriting, structuring, and settlement. It connects originators directly to Wall Street capital markets for better pricing. - **White-Label Borrower Experience**: A no-code, fully customizable borrower portal that lenders can deploy in days. - **Embedded Mortgage APIs**: For fintechs and banks to embed mortgage origination into their own products (e.g., "mortgage-as-a-service"). - **Capital Markets Settlement**: Direct execution into institutional capital, eliminating middleman markups. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$45M raised** from top-tier VCs. Revenue is estimated at $1M annually (LinkedIn estimate), but the company reports **2x month-over-month revenue growth** on their careers page [pylonlending.com](https://www.pylonlending.com/careers/). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Conversion Capital, QED Investors, Fifth Wall, Citi, Peter Thiel, Naval Ravikant, Sam Hodges, Adam Nash, and founders of Ramp, Blend, Mercury, and Stripe [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pylon-lending) [pylonlending.com](https://www.pylonlending.com/about/). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 145.5% year-over-year (to 32 employees). Rapid hiring across engineering, product, and GTM roles. The company claims 74% lower cost to originate, 75-200bps better pricing, and 102bps more margin per loan. ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertically Integrated “Rails”**: Unlike fragmented point-solutions, Pylon controls the entire origination-to-settlement stack, enabling a single data model and end-to-end automation. - **AI-Native + API-First**: Fully programmable mortgage infrastructure built from scratch, not from legacy acquisitions. This allows for instant decisions and autonomous processing. - **Direct Wall Street Access**: By pooling volume, Pylon offers direct execution into institutional capital, removing broker middlemen and improving lender margins. - **Founding Team Depth**: Led by engineers and operators from Stripe, Better, and Mercury, with 30% of engineering being former founders [pylonlending.com](https://www.pylonlending.com/careers/). ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the autonomous mortgage**: Push toward fully "self-serve" mortgage origination where AI handles majority of underwriting and processing. - **Expand partner network**: Onboard more banks, fintechs, and brokers onto the platform. - **Deepen capital markets integration**: Continue to strengthen pooled-volume execution and pricing advantages. ## Why Work Here - **High Ownership, High Impact**: Engineering teams own entire systems, not tickets. Described as "not a typical fintech company" — opinionated, fast-shipping, and willing to tackle "the hardest problem in tech" [pylonlending.com](https://www.pylonlending.com/careers/). - **Substantial Equity**: Employees receive meaningful ownership in the company ("be a founder, not just an employee") [pylonlending.com](https://www.pylonlending.com/careers/). - **Perks**: Health, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) and life insurance; home financing support (industry-leading rates); financial planning support. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid roles (e.g., New York, Palo Alto) and remote options available depending on position. Offices in New York (HQ) and Palo Alto [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/pylon). - **Culture**: "This will be hard" — they explicitly seek people who thrive on messy, real-world problems with real stakes and regulatory complexity. Many ex-Stripe, ex-Better, and ex-Mercury engineers [pylonlending.com](https://www.pylonlending.com/careers/). ## Sources 1. [pylonlending.com](https://www.pylonlending.com/) — Product overview, value propositions 2. [pylonlending.com/about](https://www.pylonlending.com/about/) — About page, investors, leadership 3. [pylonlending.com/careers](https://www.pylonlending.com/careers/) — Careers page, benefits, culture, revenue growth 4. [linkedin.com/company/pylon-lending](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pylon-lending) — Employee count, growth, financials, key executives 5. [builtin.com/company/pylon](https://builtin.com/company/pylon) — Office locations, job postings, perks 6. 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