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title: 'Growth Engineer at Petra Labs'
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# Growth Engineer at Petra Labs

- **Company:** Petra Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/petra-labs/8eb1abd1-1de6-4559-8110-6338e6a345f5

## Job description

## About Petra Labs

Petra Labs is building the attribution and experimentation layer for AI search. We believe the future of commerce will be shaped by AI-driven information retrieval, yet most companies lack the infrastructure to understand and capitalize on this emerging growth channel. Petra Labs uses large-scale simulations, agentic analysis, and deeply embedded integrations to turn AI search from a black box into a measurable growth channel teams can rigorously optimize and allocate spend against.

Raised $5M+ in funding from Tier-1 VCs. We work in our SoHo, New York office.

Culture

- We hire a small number of extremely talented people and give them as much ownership and autonomy as possible.
- We are truth-seeking. Transparent, direct discourse is encouraged. We challenge existing beliefs in pursuit of always getting better.
- We work hard and are unapologetic about the level of effort required to build a generational company.

## The Role

Today, the vast majority of our pipeline comes from inbounds and referrals from success with our existing customers. Whilst we continue to find great success through this channel, we now want to focus efforts on expanding our AI-native growth and marketing systems and initiatives. We need someone who can work with leadership on building the GTM engine from the ground up: generate qualified enterprise leads, create content that educates a market that barely knows this category exists, and run experiments across channels to find what converts.

What You'll Do - Pipeline & Demand Gen

- Build pipeline. Design and execute targeted outbound campaigns tailored to marketing leaders, VPs, and CMOs.
- Own initiatives end to end. You’ll own everything from who we’re targeting and what we’re saying to what happens after someone converts.
- Figure out what’s working and what isn’t. If a channel stops converting, dig into why. Apply analytical rigor to chart, and back, the best path forward without relying only on increased spend.
- Test constantly. New channels, messaging, audiences, offers, and formats. Some things will work and plenty won’t. The goal is to experiment relentlessly, learn what works quickly and continue to iterate.
- Think in systems. Doing things that don’t scale is paramount for figuring out what works. Once you do, design and build a system from the ground up that makes your success repeatable.

## What We’re Looking For

- We care less about where you’ve worked and more about what you’ve actually done. You should be able to point to things you’ve built, results you’ve driven, and problems you’ve figured out yourself.
- You’ve built a growth channel before. You’ve taken something from zero, figured out what worked, and turned it into real pipeline or revenue. You’re comfortable owning the whole thing, not just one piece of it.
- You’re good with numbers. You know what your channels are costing, what they’re producing, and where the bottlenecks are. You can build a model, dig through a dashboard, and answer your own questions without waiting on someone else.
- You figure things out yourself. Whether it’s setting up a CRM workflow, automating something repetitive, or getting two tools to talk to each other, you’re comfortable getting your hands dirty.
- You can write. A big part of this job is taking something technical or complicated and making it simple and interesting. You should be able to write something a CMO would actually want to read or send to their team.
- You’re comfortable selling services. Petra isn’t SaaS. Our deals are meaningful, the sales process can take time, and our buyers are sophisticated marketing leaders. You need to understand how to build trust and sell something that isn’t as simple as clicking “start trial.”
- You want a lot of ownership. We’re still early, so the job won’t always fit neatly into a box. We’re looking for someone who likes that and wants to help figure out what the role becomes.
- AI native. Moving fast requires maximizing the full set of tools at your disposal. Fluency is preferred, but familiarity and an unrelenting willingness to learn goes further.

## Compensation & Details

- Competitive salary + meaningful equity - this is a seed-stage founding team role
- In-person in New York City
- Reports directly to the founders
- High autonomy, low bureaucracy, real ownership

## About Petra Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Petra Labs is an AI search marketing platform and services company that helps enterprises optimize, measure, and manage their brand presence across AI-powered search engines.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Sami Akkawi, Rishi Penmetcha, Ramie Khoury

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Search Marketing / Enterprise Marketing Technology (MarTech)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise B2B, Growth-stage companies, and marketing teams focused on AI search visibility (AEO - AI Engine Optimization)
- **Mission or purpose**: To help enterprises turn AI search into a defensible revenue channel by providing the software, strategy, and execution needed to win in AI-powered discovery.

## Products & Services
- **The Petra Engine (Platform)**: A proprietary AI search marketing platform that provides competitive intelligence, visibility tracking, sentiment analysis, and chain-of-thought data across major AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc.). It surfaces real user queries from panel data and custom integrations.
- **Full-Service AEO Team**: A hands-on, end-to-end service layer that executes strategy based on platform insights. Includes owned media (content, technical SEO), earned media (citation placements), social media management, and programmatic AEO.
- **Custom Attribution Modeling (MMM)**: Builds custom Market Mix Models to connect AI search visibility, earned media, and other levers directly to pipeline and closed revenue, solving for the "dark traffic" problem of AI referrals.
- **Strategy & Consulting**: Provides a roadmap reverse-engineered from platform citation data, including prompt mapping, competitive threat analysis, and business intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding (Seed round); amount not publicly disclosed. Revenue model is service-led with platform licensing.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **Headcount**: 10 employees (as of mid-2026), with a monthly growth rate of +33.3% on LinkedIn.
    - **Traffic**: Website traffic growing at +44.9% month-over-month.
    - **Client Results**: Case studies show clients achieving 27x AI search traffic in 6 months and AI referrals becoming 25% of net-new revenue.
    - **Market Position**: First-mover in the "enterprise AEO platform + services" category, competing with traditional SEO agencies and pure-play AI monitoring tools.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack approach**: Combines proprietary data (chain-of-thought, panel data) with a dedicated execution team, unlike pure-software tools or traditional agencies that lack the technology layer.
- **Attribution expertise**: Solves the "dark traffic" problem—AI referrals that show up as direct/organic in standard analytics—by building custom MMMs, making AI search a measurable and defensible budget line.
- **Chain-of-thought data**: Captures the hidden reasoning and interim citations of AI models (sources the model consults but doesn't cite), providing unique competitive intelligence.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders and early team have backgrounds from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and top consulting firms, bringing a high level of strategic rigor.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product-led growth**: Building the platform to be the "source of truth" for AI search performance while using the services team to drive adoption and ROI.
- **Category creation**: Establishing "AI Search Team" as a new category alongside SEO and SEM, targeting enterprise CMOs and heads of growth.
- **Attribution as a wedge**: Using proprietary attribution models to prove ROI and lock in long-term enterprise contracts.
- **Scale the team**: Actively hiring for founding engineers, strategy & ops, and growth roles to build the core team.

## Why Work Here
- **Founding team opportunity**: As a 2025 startup, new hires get to shape the product, culture, and strategy from an early stage.
- **High-impact work**: Directly building the infrastructure and playbook for a new category (AEO) that is rapidly growing in importance.
- **Culture & Perks**:
    - **Hybrid/In-Office**: Described as a "Hybrid Workspace" with a strong in-office presence in New York City (likely 3-4 days/week).
    - **Equity**: Roles list "Equity" as a benefit, standard for early-stage startups.
    - **Team**: Small, high-caliber team (10 people) with backgrounds from top-tier firms (McKinsey, AWS, Goldman Sachs).
    - **Role variety**: Engineers and operators will have broad ownership across the stack and business, not siloed.
- **Notable for job seekers**: The company is actively hiring its first few engineers and operators, offering significant upside and influence.

## Sources
1. [petralabs.com](https://www.petralabs.com/)
2. [LinkedIn - Petra Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/petra-labs-ai)
3. [Built In - Petra Labs](https://builtin.com/company/petra-labs)
4. [Petra Labs Solutions Page](https://www.petralabs.com/solutions)
5. [Petra Labs Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/petra-labs/23a973ba-907c-44ef-9c66-a88247d8d0f6)

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