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Flappie’s missing growth operator

01Has personally scaled DTC paid acquisition and can show the numbers

02Thinks in contribution margin and incrementality, not vanity ROAS

03Maps customer journeys and turns search intent into SEO and AI discovery

04Runs work through agents, automation, APIs, and lightweight code

05Turns insight into content, creative, pages, and tests at speed

06Knows what to prioritize, what to stop, and why

Founder-led hiring · Flappie, Zürich

Founding Growth Engineer

Wanted · Remote (Europe, CET)

Years of engineering. Thousands of Flappies sold. The product works — now it goes global. Missing: the person who makes the world notice.

The story

We taught a cat flap to recognise prey.

Flappie started because our mother’s cats kept bringing mice into the house. Three years of engineering later, our cat flap recognises prey directly on the device and keeps the door locked. Over €1 million in pre-sales helped bring it to market, and thousands of Flappies now guard doors across Europe.

Real Flappie detections. Prey is recognised directly on the device, and the door stays locked.

Featured in 200+ international media · CES 2024

Thousands

Flappies sold

200+

Media features

Europe

Live today

UK + US

The product works. Now come build the growth machine.

Your missions

Six missions. One growth system.

Somewhere right now you’re doing this anyway: thirty ad variants before the agency sends a first draft, the pipeline nobody asked for, the landing page you shipped yourself because waiting was slower. Most likely inside a structure that slows you down.

Here, there is none. You’ll join a hands-on team of around ten people, working directly with both founders on a product customers already want. The growth engine is still a blank sheet. Every test has a number attached before launch, you kill your own ideas when the data says so, and something ships every week. Units sold and contribution margin are your numbers.

If this reads like your normal week, apply.

Understand how cat owners buy

Mine customer conversations, reviews, search results, and forums for the language, objections, and moments that drive action.

Build the SEO and AI-discovery engine

Map demand from problem to category, comparison, installation, and purchase. Build useful pages, comparisons, tools, videos, forum participation, and customer evidence that earns visibility and converts.

Build paid acquisition properly

Own the accounts, budgets, tracking, creative learning, and the decision to scale or stop.

Turn insight into creative and conversion

Create positioning, hooks, everyday creative, landing pages, offers, and controlled tests at speed.

Build compounding channels

Test lifecycle, referrals, creators, affiliates, partnerships, and organic formats when the evidence is there.

Run the growth operating system

Connect orders, contribution, inventory, and incremental growth into one view the founders can trust.

Your first experiment starts here.

The founders

Build it with us. Own making it happen.

You will work closely with both founders. We make the big strategic calls together. You own turning those decisions into execution, experiments, and learning at speed.

Direct collaboration with both founders

Real ownership of execution, experiments, and learning

Remote within Europe with substantial CET overlap

Base salary plus a meaningful performance-linked component

Equity is possible for an exceptional candidate when it is necessary to create the right long-term fit.

No cover letters

Skip the cover letter. Show us your numbers.

Send us one growth case with real numbers, one thing you built, and one agentic workflow you actually use. A three-minute Loom beats a cover letter. We care about your judgment, your contribution, and what was genuinely yours.

One growth case with numbers

Show the timeframe, spend, orders, CAC, and exactly what you owned.

One thing you built

An ad, landing page, tool, dashboard, automation, content system, or growth workflow.

One AI-native workflow

Show the inputs, your checks and edits, the finished output, and what became faster or better.

AI use is expected. Judgment and quality still belong to you.

What happens next: a 15 to 20-minute founder call, a practical growth exercise, and one final conversation.

hiring@flappie.ch

Let’s make Flappie famous.

flappiedoors.com · press · Oliver & Denis on LinkedIn

Flappie Technologies · Zürich