Pear-VC

Founding Deployment Strategist - Polynomic

New York City
Full-time
$180K - $250K
Posted Oct 29, 2026

Skills

Customer Success
Paid Ads
SQL
Writing

Job description

The current ad market sucks. At Polynomic, we’re reimagining performance marketing from the ground up. We believe that ads, in various new forms, will continue to be the primary business model of the internet and the backbone of growth in commerce. Yet performance marketing today is heavily dependent on outdated playbooks, guesswork, manual effort. We believe that brands shouldn’t have to throw spaghetti at the wall and hope to get lucky to find growth. We are at an inflection point with AI and have a unique opportunity to make ads more efficient and profitable for brands through our agentic platform.

We are building autonomous, intelligent systems where brands can plug in and find the most profitable ways to grow their revenue through ads, instead of having to hire expensive agencies or spend countless hours optimizing ad campaigns.

Polynomic was founded by Madhav https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhavdatt/ (ex Google Ads, Citadel, HBS, Harvard) and Nathan https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathandass/ (ex Google Research, HBS, Stanford CS). Madhav launched a new AI ads product (0 -> $675M ARR) at Google, and Nathan launched Google’s first transformer model in production and launched key AI models powering Google Search Ads. Our team comes from Google, Jane Street, Citadel, Apple, and Amazon. We’re a well-funded seed stage startup backed by top VCs and angel investors and already have multiple high-growth consumer brands as paying customers.

Role:

As Founding Deployment Strategist, you act as the bridge between a customer's biggest performance marketing challenges and Polynomic’s technical solution. You will own the entire lifecycle of our engagement with customers.

What you'll do:

•Lead customer success and deployments: oversee onboarding, implementation, and account health for key clients, stepping in directly when needed to ensure white-glove service

•Advise customers on their ads and performance marketing strategy, help set them up for success before key brand moments, and give them context on how our AI systems are optimizing their ad accounts

•Lean heavily on AI to automate and replace manual workflows wherever they slow you down

•Champion a culture of customer obsession and operational excellence across the team

•Fill gaps - do whatever it takes to help our customers succeed, even when it doesn't fit neatly into a job description

Preferred Experience:

•Exceptional talent shows up in a lot of forms. You've demonstrated unusually strong ability and pace through your previous experience

•You've worked in management consulting or in a high performance environment for at least 4 years. You have hands-on experience in ads and/or performance marketing

•You are extremely organized, have a bias to action, and thrive in ambiguity

•You are a great communicator, and show up as warm and competent in both writing and verbally

•You have a quantitative aptitude, are very comfortable with SQL and analyzing data

•You are AI-native, use AI to create leverage in your own workflows, and are very comfortable with data

•You obsess over the details and care deeply about delivering value to customers

•You care about the problem of running efficient digital ads and recognize their impact on global commerce

This is an in-person opportunity in New York.

Compensation:

•$180k-$250k + above-market equity

•401k with match, fully funded medical, dental, and vision insurance, comped office lunches

•Relocation support to move to NYC