MindFort

Autonomous Security Agents

Founding Growth Lead

$140K - $200K0.20% - 0.40%Santa Monica, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Marketing
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Brandon Veiseh
Brandon Veiseh
Founder

About the role

About Us:

MindFort is an AI-powered penetration testing platform that delivers human-level security testing at machine speed. We're building fully autonomous AI agents that can find, exploit, and patch complex vulnerabilities in web applications at massive scale.

Our agents think and act like human penetration testers: they analyze targets, collaborate, and exploit weaknesses — but with the speed and scale only AI can achieve.

Security teams are already falling behind with outdated tools and manual processes. AI-generated code is flooding the world faster than humans can secure it. MindFort is closing that gap. Our platform will be critical for organizations building with AI and will redefine how offensive security is done.


About the Role:

We're hiring our Founding Growth Lead to build our go-to-market motion from the ground up. You'll own the entire funnel — from generating leads to closing deals to keeping customers engaged. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role: as our first growth hire, you'll shape not just our sales and marketing strategy, but also how we talk about our product.

You'll join a high-trust, high-velocity team where decisions are fast, responsibilities are broad, and your work will have an immediate effect on revenue and customer relationships.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Run outbound prospecting campaigns to book meetings with CISOs, security engineers, and technical buyers at target companies.
  • Manage inbound leads, qualify prospects, and drive them through the sales cycle.
  • Conduct product demos and technical discovery calls with security teams.
  • Build and experiment with marketing campaigns (content, email, ads, events) to drive pipeline.
  • Work directly with early customers to understand their needs, gather feedback, and ensure success.
  • Develop messaging, positioning, and sales collateral that resonates with technical buyers.
  • Collaborate with founders to refine GTM strategy, and identify new growth channels.
  • Track metrics, run experiments, and iterate quickly based on what's working.

Qualifications:

  • 1–3 years of experience in a growth, sales, or marketing role at a startup or fast-moving company.
  • Proven track record of hitting targets, driving pipeline, or contributing to measurable growth.
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills — you can explain technical products simply and compellingly.
  • Comfortable with the full sales cycle: outbound prospecting, demos, negotiations, and closing.
  • Self-starter mentality with the ability to build processes from scratch and wear multiple hats.
  • Experience using CRMs, marketing automation tools, and data to drive decisions.

Nice to have:

  • Experience selling or marketing in cybersecurity, DevOps, or infrastructure software.
  • Background selling technical products to developers or security teams.
  • Content creation skills (blog posts, case studies, social media).
  • Prior early-stage startup experience in a growth or GTM role.

What You Get:

  • Competitive salary plus founding-level equity.
  • Equinox membership.
  • Top-tier health insurance — 100% covered.
  • Lunch included regularly plus ad hoc team dinners.
  • Unparalleled access to leading AI labs and world-class security teams.
  • Unlimited, flexible PTO.

MindFort is in-office only, 6 days a week.

About MindFort

MindFort
Founded:2025
Batch:X25
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Founders
Akul Gupta
Akul Gupta
Founder
Brandon Veiseh
Brandon Veiseh
Founder