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What is Hunch?
Hunch is a dating app built for follow-through - designed to turn mutual interest into a real first date instead of another chat thread that fizzles out. Built for people tired of mindless swiping and commodified matchmaking, Hunch uses an AI matchmaker to cut the week of back-and-forth and get two interested people out of the app and into the same room.
With 2.4M+ daters, 1.47M+ dates planned, and 100% photo-verified profiles, Hunch is growing fast in the US by challenging the swipe-left/right norm of traditional apps. Hunch is a Series A funded ($23 Million) startup building the future of social discovery in a post-AI world.
Link to our fundraising announcement
Key Offerings Of Hunch
- One Drop a Day: A small, hand-picked set of photo-verified profiles arrives daily - chosen for taste, lifestyle, and who's actually free to meet. So every profile gets real attention instead of a mindless swipe.
- Interest Becomes a Plan: When both people want to meet, Hunch's AI matchmaker turns mutual interest into a confirmed date with a real time and place - no logistics to manage.
- Every Match, Verified: Every profile is matched to a live photo before it appears in anyone's drop. No bots, no catfishing - just real, trustworthy connections.
- Built to Move: Chats close after seven days and users hold a few conversations at a time - nudges designed to get people out the door, not scrolling forever.
About The Role
We're looking for a
Growth Analyst who sits at the intersection of communication and analytics. You'll turn product moments into timely, well-targeted messaging, then measure what actually moved the needle. This is a hands-on, execution-and-insight role — you run the experiments, read the data, and translate it into the next set of decisions. You'll partner closely with the CPO and cross-functionally with Product, Data, Design, and Marketing.
This is
not a product management role. You won't own the roadmap or write specs. You own the lifecycle communication engine and the measurement behind it.
What You'll Do
Lifecycle communication
- Map and run journeys for new, active, dormant, and premium cohorts across email, push, SMS, and in-app, with clear success metrics per stage.
- Build and maintain campaigns, segmentation, personalisation, frequency caps, and suppression rules.
- Set up behavioural triggers for real moments — first wave received, crush accepted, expiring boosts, date confirmations, checkout drop-offs, inactivity.
- Implement dynamic content using templating/conditional logic and clean deep-linking; QA tracking and attribution so nothing breaks silently.
Analytics & experimentation (core)
- Own experimentation end-to-end in Mixpanel — design A/B/n tests, set up holdouts and control groups, define the metric, and read the result with statistical rigour.
- Quantify incremental lift rather than surface-level opens and clicks; be clear on what's causal versus correlated.
- Build and maintain reporting dashboards that leadership can trust and self-serve from — reachability → deliverability → performance → business outcomes.
- Keep event taxonomy, naming conventions, and funnels clean; understand event schemas and attribution deeply.
AI-forward ways of working
- Use AI tooling to accelerate content generation, segmentation logic, QA, and analysis — and build lightweight AI-assisted workflows where they save real time.
- Bring a bias toward automating the repetitive so more time goes to judgement and experimentation.
Must-have Qualifications
- 2–4 years in CRM/lifecycle, growth, or analytics for a consumer mobile product.
- Strong Mixpanel skills — you've built funnels, cohorts, and dashboards, and run experiments in it (or a close equivalent like Amplitude, with clear reasons you can pick up Mixpanel fast).
- Rigorous experimentation mindset: comfortable with A/B/n design, control groups, holdouts, and reading significance honestly.
- Solid SQL for cohort pulls and experiment reads.
- Hands-on with a lifecycle platform (MoEngage, CleverTap, Braze, Iterable, or Customer.io) — templating/conditional logic, deep links, and basic webhooks without waiting on engineering.
- Comfort with light technical work: HTML/CSS for emails, JSON, URL/UTM hygiene, basic scripting for transforms.
- Strong writing and a sense for tone that fits an intentional-dating brand.
- Genuinely AI-forward in how you work.
Nice to have
- Deliverability and consent fundamentals (SPF/DKIM/DMARC basics, push tokens, SMS opt-ins).
- Experience with a US-market consumer app.
What We Offer
- Competitive pay along with an annual performance-linked incentive (PLI).
- Employee benefits like Medical Insurance.
- Participation in Employee Phantom Grants Program (Stock Options).
Life at Hunch
Hunch is a small team focused on shipping the parts of dating that usually stall - getting two interested people into the same room.
What We Hire For - The ABCs
Most companies have a long list of values nobody remembers. We have three, and they show up in how we hire, what we ship, and how we talk about the work:
- Authenticity - Real before polished. We build for real people on real first dates, and we hire the same way. No theater. If something's not working, say so; if it is, ship it.
- Boldness - Dating got stuck because nobody wanted to break the pattern. We make the call on what to ship, what to cut, and what doesn't belong in the product, even when it's the harder choice.
- Curiosity - The best people here ask a lot of small, useful questions — about users, about the data, about each other's work. We trust people who keep learning over people who already know.
How We Work
- Ownership, not theater - You own outcomes, not status updates. Fewer meetings, fewer dashboards, more shipping.
- Flexibility that's real - We care about the work, not the hours you sit at a desk. Take the afternoon, take the week - show up for the stuff that matters.
- Move fast, don't burn out - Hunch ships quickly because we cut the slow stuff, not because we work people into the ground. Velocity comes from focus, not from hours.
- Small team, big problems - You'll work on things that matter to millions of people trying to actually meet someone. Every role moves the product.
Backed by Global Investors
Hunch is backed by Hashed, AlphaWave, Brevan Howard and Polygon Studios.
Experienced Leadership
Hunch is founded by a trio of industry veterans: Ish Goel (CEO), Nitika Goel (CPO), and Kartic Rakhra (CMO) - serial entrepreneurs with their last exit from Nexus Mutual, a web3 consumer-tech startup.
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