⭐ About daydream

daydream builds growth marketing playbooks for the world’s fastest growing companies.

Note: This role requires candidates to be in-person, in-office 3 days per week in our Hayes Valley, San Francisco office.

We believe the future of growth marketing is one where companies pay for outcomes, rather than tools. Today, we leverage a combination of AI-enabled services + software to execute SEO growth playbooks for companies like Clay, Descript, and Beacons and dozens of others. In the future, we'll expand our capabilities across the entire growth marketing stack, encompassing all essential customer acquisition channels.

We've raised $6.2M from leading investors like First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox as well as notable angels like Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz, Author of Product-Led SEO.

🔧 The problem we’re trying to solve

Every company needs to do two things:

1. Build a product.

2. Acquire customers.

There are three ways to acquire customers — sales, product-led growth, and growth marketing. Of these three, growth marketing is particularly hard to staff for because great internal talent is find (ex. in SEO, there are probably < 20 people who we would consider world-class), and time-consuming to ramp.

Then there’s the agencies, but agencies are often slow, lack strong technical talent, and in general are associated with poor quality of outcomes.

🧑‍💻 How we’re solving this problem

daydream is different — we’ve built a vertically integrated software + services stack with a singular goal in mind — deliver outstanding outcomes for every customer we service, repeatedly and consistently in a fraction of the time they expect. While we’ve started with SEO, we expect to expand to all other major growth marketing channels over the near future.

🧔🏽‍♂️ Who you’ll be working with

Hi there! 👋🏽 I’m Shravan, co-founder and CTO at Daydream. You’ll be working directly with me. Here’s a bit about me:

• Built the first version of Daydream in 2 days in 2023 and still work across AI, backend, frontend, design and XFN.

• Previously spent 4 years at Meta (Horizon, Jobs crawler) and led engineering at Flixed, aggregating streaming data across 100+ services.

• Currently focused on recruiting and leading R&D to generate high-quality content and media — fully automated, no human review loops.

• I care about deep work, true end-to-end automation, and building systems that actually scale. No busywork. No AI "drafts" for humans to clean up.

• Prefer direct feedback, async comms for most things, and in-person for strategic decisions.

• Outside work: I enjoy working on home automation projects (like this one!), web automation, and learning Russian. I’m currently building a seamless .NET HttpClientHandler for the awesome curl-impersonate project (ask me about this!).
  

👷🏻‍♀️ What you’ll be doing

As Chief of Staff to the CTO, you’ll work across technical, operational, and people-related initiatives to keep the engineering org humming and unblock the CTO. No two weeks will look the same, but here are a few things you might own or assist with:

• Manage engineering tools, accounts, CI/CD pipelines, and internal dev ops systems

• Write and maintain onboarding guides, internal documentation, and the engineering wiki

• Handle technical compliance and support vendor evaluations (e.g. APIs, libraries)

• Support technical recruiting, onboarding, and operational logistics (e.g. equipment, immigration)

• Help field technical customer questions and assist with reverse proxy or infrastructure setups

• Review technical content for accuracy and create polished product demos, release notes, and roadmaps

• Contribute to hands-on technical work (e.g. prototypes, debugging, internal tools) as needed, especially early on

• Collaborate cross-functionally to align engineering priorities with growth and GTM teams
  

🤓 What you’ll gain

• Deep exposure to technical leadership at a scaling startup — You’ll work side-by-side with the CTO to shape product and engineering priorities, design org-wide systems, and help drive critical decisions around hiring, roadmap, and build vs. buy tradeoffs.

• A portfolio of 0 → 1 initiatives across product, process, and people — From improving developer velocity and leading cross-functional projects to standing up new internal tools or workflows, you’ll own company-defining work from day one.

• Unfiltered access to daydream’s technical brain trust — You’ll collaborate closely with senior engineers, growth and design, while also interfacing with customers, vendors, and advisors to align engineering execution with company goals.

• A front-row seat to how great engineering orgs scale — You’ll get hands-on experience building systems that balance speed and quality, setting the foundation for a product-led culture.
  

✅ You’ll be an excellent fit if you

• Are highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong written and verbal communication skills. You'll often be responsible for translating technical context into clear updates for cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment across product, design, and engineering.

• Have a background in or familiarity with software engineering or technical product development. You don’t need to be a current engineer, but you should be comfortable navigating technical conversations and earning credibility with senior engineers.

• Enjoy solving complex operational problems. Whether it’s optimizing team processes, shaping hiring priorities, or improving sprint workflows, you’re energized by helping technical teams move faster and more effectively.

• Thrive in ambiguity and can context switch fluidly across multiple workstreams — from coordinating hiring loops to building dashboards for velocity metrics, to helping evaluate technical vendors or tools.

• Are comfortable with the occasional unglamorous task — scheduling interviews, writing onboarding docs, organizing architecture reviews, or simply making sure the trains run on time. You care about outcomes, not ego.
  

❌ This role won’t be a good fit if you

• Are unwilling to get hands-on with technical work. While this is primarily a strategic and operational role, you should be comfortable contributing as an individual contributor — especially early on — whether that’s writing code, prototyping internal tools, or supporting engineering execution.

• Struggle to maintain focus on routine administrative tasks like inbox processing and calendar management. While most of your time will involve strategic projects, reliably handling these essential administrative duties remains important.

• Prefer highly structured environments. This role often requires navigating ambiguity, taking initiative without clear guidelines, and turning rough ideas into actionable plans.

• Expect a strictly 9–5 schedule. While we respect work-life balance, occasional evening or weekend work may be needed when high-priority projects or engineering incidents arise.
  

👤 Examples of profiles that may be a good fit

• Software engineers with 3–5 years of experience who want to expand beyond individual contributor work and gain exposure to product strategy, technical hiring, roadmap prioritization, and cross-functional execution. This is a strong fit for engineers interested in becoming founders, PMs, or technical leaders.

• Technical product managers or eng leads who are looking to broaden their scope, working directly with the CTO on initiatives spanning org design, platform investments, vendor strategy, and engineering velocity.

• Aspiring technical founders who want deep visibility into how a scaling product org operates—from hiring and infra decisions to process design and cross-team alignment.

• Operators with a background in engineering-adjacent roles, such as solutions engineering, technical program management, or developer marketing, who are excited to serve as a connective tissue between engineering and the rest of the company.
  

🏦 Compensation

The compensation range for this role is $140K-$180K per year + generous equity in daydream, along with full coverage of medical, vision, and dental insurance.