Mentra is positioning itself to compete with major platforms by building a vibrant ecosystem around smart glasses, aiming to scale to billions of users with prominent adoption by deaf and hard-of-hearing communities by 2026.

The growth-focused role requires a track record of ownership and a broad skill set across marketing, product, communications, events, and content, with the candidate available to work in San Francisco.

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Mentra was founded in 2024, is part of Y Combinator Batch W25, is based in San Francisco, and started with a core team of about 12 people.

Key success metrics include growth in MentraOS weekly active users, sales of Mentra smart glasses, and widespread developer engagement with thousands of apps and growing enterprise adoption.

Responsibilities cover product growth ownership, website content strategy, PR, advertising, events, email marketing, and affiliate programs, with the aim of elevating mind share among developers, B2B customers, and deaf/HoH communities.

Mentra is building MentraOS, an open-source operating system for smart glasses designed to enable new computing interfaces and universal mind-to-machine interactions.

The Head of Growth role is based in San Francisco, with a salary range of $110K-$160K and equity between 0.10% and 0.70%, reporting to the founders and collaborating with engineering, design, and content teams.

The company envisions smart glasses delivering live captions for the deaf, proactive AI in conversations, and POV streaming, with a goal of mainstreaming smart glasses as a platform.