Tethral, Inc.
Tethral, Inc.

Founding team member

Berkeley, United States (USA) · Hybrid (Office and Remote) · Full-time

About this role

Tethral is a privacy-first AI platform that lets users seamlessly orchestrate and control all their smart home and IoT devices—without buying new hardware or surrendering their data. We’re six weeks from MVP launch and moving fast toward a seed round.

We’re not building another smart home dashboard. We’re building the interoperability and privacy layer for the next generation of connected environments.

What You’ll Do

  • 🎯 Design & run early growth experiments (landing pages, content loops, referral programs)
  • 🧭 Build and optimize onboarding funnels to drive activation
  • ✍️ Write and manage copy, social, email, blog, and in-app messaging
  • 📊 Set up and track core growth metrics (activation, retention, CAC, etc.)
  • 📣 Engage early users across communities, forums, and social channels
  • 📄 Help prep case studies and traction snapshots for investor outreach

You Might Be a Fit If You…

  • Have 2–5 years in growth or product marketing (bonus: B2C apps, privacy tools, IoT)
  • Are comfortable in ambiguity and want to own the growth function
  • Know how to drive early user traction on a lean budget
  • Can write crisp, compelling copy and content
  • Enjoy being close to the product and the user, not buried in layers of management
  • Have experience with analytics tools and basic marketing stacks

Bonus Points For

  • Experience with mobile app marketing or ASO
  • Familiarity with smart home users and privacy-conscious communities
  • Comfortable creating light visuals or using no-code tools

Compensation

  • Equity: ~1.0–1.5%, vesting over 4 years
  • Pre-seed stipend: Modest cash or milestone-based bonuses possible
  • Post-seed salary: ~$100K–130K/year (depending on location/experience)
  • Milestone-based rewards tied to traction (e.g. DAUs, waitlist conversions)

Job details

Salary
No salary
Equity
1% - 2%
Experience
Mid-level (3-6 years)
Work hours
Flexible hours
Education
Not relevant
Languages
English

Required Skills

Business DevelopmentBusiness GrowthOnboardingTraction

Team Roles

Business DeveloperGrowth & Venture RelationsPR ManagerSales ManagerSocial Media SpecialistOperations Manager

Department

Business & StrategyMarketing & Sales

About the Company

Tethral, Inc.
Tethral, Inc.

AI & Machine Learning · 6-10 · Berkeley, United States (USA)

Our mission is to make the vast amount of smart home and connectable device data useful in ways that make peoples lives easier and fun, by easily on boarding and connecting devices, than using that data to create something cool - like an energy savings plan by connecting your electric vehicle with your home devices and your energy supplier, or a sleep optimization schedule, home security profiles, and even movie night.