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Loraverse
Loraverse is an AI-native cinematic production platform built in Toronto. We help filmmakers and creators turn ideas into finished work while maintaining consistent characters, environments and visual style across AI-generated shots.We’re a small founding team, part of the DMZ, building a self-serve platform that gives creators more control over generative filmmaking.
About Loraverse
Loraverse is an AI-native cinematic production platform built in Toronto. We help filmmakers and creators turn ideas into finished work while maintaining consistent characters, environments and visual style across AI-generated shots. We’re a small founding team, part of the DMZ, building a self-serve platform that gives creators more control over generative filmmaking.
The role
We’re looking for a Growth Marketing Lead to grow Loraverse’s paying customer base and recurring revenue.
As our first growth hire, you’ll shape the growth strategy and execute it yourself. You’ll identify the right audiences, develop compelling campaigns and build repeatable ways to help creators discover Loraverse, get value from it and become lasting customers.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You’ll work directly with the founders across product and creative, with original content and product expertise available to support your work. You’ll have room to propose experiments, manage an agreed budget and help decide where we invest.
What you’ll do
- Grow paying customers and revenue. Develop and execute a focused growth plan, prioritizing opportunities that lead to paid adoption and sustained use.
- Build repeatable acquisition channels. Test paid acquisition, email, content distribution, referrals and partnerships. Use results to decide what to expand, improve or stop.
- Improve activation, conversion and retention. Work with product on landing pages, onboarding and upgrade flows. Build lifecycle campaigns that help creators reach their first meaningful result and give them reasons to return.
- Turn creative content into demand. Adapt product demos, founder content and customer work into effective campaigns. Write strong copy, develop creative briefs and distribute content to relevant audiences.
- Develop creator partnerships. Find and manage collaborations with creators, educators and relevant communities. Set clear objectives and evaluate the customers and engagement each partnership brings.
- Connect education with product adoption. Build campaigns and follow-up journeys around workshops, educational content and online learning. Work alongside our Head of AI Production to support creators, gather feedback and identify advocates.
- Own measurement and budget discipline. Track paid conversion, customer acquisition cost, retention and acquisition payback. Report results clearly and bring actionable recommendations to the founders.
What success looks like
- Paying customers and recurring revenue grow against agreed targets.
- More new users reach meaningful product value and convert to paid subscriptions.
- Customers return and continue finding value in the product.
- Acquisition channels demonstrate repeatable results with economics that justify further investment.
- The team understands what is working, what needs to change and where to focus next.
You’ll help establish the baseline and agree priorities with the founders. Activation and retention will be shared responsibilities across growth, product and creative.
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of relevant experience in growth or marketing for a self-serve software product, subscription business or creator platform.
- You can point to measurable growth results you personally delivered and explain your contribution.
- You’re comfortable developing a strategy and executing campaigns yourself, including paid acquisition and email marketing.
- You write clear, compelling copy and can turn rough source material into finished marketing.
- You have hands-on experience with marketing automation, analytics, funnel measurement and structured experimentation.
- You can evaluate campaign economics, manage budgets and explain what the numbers mean.
- You’re comfortable talking to customers and using their feedback to improve positioning and campaigns.
- You prioritize well, work independently and adapt when results challenge your assumptions.
Nice to have
- Experience with creative software, AI tools, filmmaking or post-production.
- Experience promoting educational programmes or building creator communities.
- Creator, influencer or affiliate partnership experience.
- Experience producing ad creative or short-form video.
- Experience as an early marketing hire at a startup.
Working at Loraverse
You’ll help establish our growth function, work directly with the founders and see how your decisions affect both the business and the creators using our product.
We offer close collaboration with creative and product expertise, direct access to customer feedback and the opportunity to take campaigns from idea through execution and measurement.
This can be a Toronto-based hybrid position or a remote position. The initial contract term is 6 months, with potential renewal based on performance and business needs.
- Required skills
Growth strategy, paid acquisition, email and lifecycle marketing, funnel optimization, marketing automation, copywriting, creator partnerships, budget management, customer research - Desired skills
Creative software, AI tools, filmmaking or post-production, educational programme marketing, creator community building, influencer or affiliate partnerships, ad creative, short-form video, early-stage startup experience. - Employment type
Full time
Deadline to apply
13-11-2026
Knead Tech
Knead Tech is a software company that enables simple food recovery through a white-label app to streamline food redirection, increase pounds of food rescued and ensure safe handling practices to meet the global challenge of food waste.
About Us:
Knead Technologies is a software company dedicated to transforming food rescue operations. Our platform streamlines and optimizes the process of rescuing surplus food and distributing it to those who need it most, helping address the $940 billion global challenge of food waste and its environmental impact.
We’re a small, dynamic team passionate about creating meaningful social and environmental impact in communities around the world.
If you’re excited about helping communities rescue more food and reduce waste, we’d love to hear from you. Please email your resume and a brief statement of interest to Aaliyah at aaliyah@kneadtech.com, using the job title Account Executive (Public Sector & Non-Profits)aaliyah@kneadtech.com, using the job title Account Executive (Public Sector & Non-Profits) as the subject line.
Position: Full-time, 6-month contract.
Salary: $100,000–$120,000 annualized equivalent (pro-rated for 6 months), + commission.
Location: Canada-based with flexibility for hybrid or remote work.
Position Overview:
The Account Executive, Public Sector & Non-Profits, will be responsible for driving revenue growth by identifying, pursuing, and closing new business opportunities across our core customer segments: Municipalities (B2G), Food Rescue Organizations/Food Banks (B2B Non-Profit), and Food Donors (Marketplace Pilots). This role requires a strategic approach, excellent relationship-building skills, and a strong understanding of selling to the public sector and non-profits. This role reports directly to the CEO.
Key Responsibilities:
- Business-to-Government (B2G) Sales
Drive sales of Knead Tech’s food rescue software to local and municipal governments by navigating public sector procurement, managing RFPs and contracts, building relationships with key decision-makers, and meeting or exceeding sales targets. - Business-to-Business (B2B) Non-Profit Sales
Generate and manage leads with food rescue organizations and food banks, deliver tailored demos, manage the full sales cycle, develop sales materials, and collaborate cross-functionally to support successful implementation. - Food Donor/Marketplace Sales – Emerging Focus
Assist pilot programs by identifying and engaging potential high-volume food donors, including grocery chains, restaurants, and institutional cafeterias.
Required Qualifications:
- Proven B2B and/or B2G sales experience, with a demonstrable track record of meeting or exceeding quota.
- Direct experience selling complex software or service solutions to municipal or state government agencies; familiarity with public-sector procurement processes is highly preferred.
- Prior experience selling into the non-profit sector—specifically food banks, pantries, or related organizations.
- Proficiency with modern sales tools and CRM platforms (e.g., Pipedrive, Salesforce), with strong pipeline management discipline.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience introducing emerging or early-stage technology solutions, including supporting pilot or early-adoption phases.
- A passion for social impact, sustainability, and addressing food insecurity.
- Knowledge of the regulatory landscape surrounding food donation liability and safety.
Skills & Attributes:
- Exceptional communicator: Translates complex ideas into clear, persuasive narratives across written and verbal channels, effectively engaging customers, advancing sales conversations, and driving alignment internally.
- Mission-driven mindset with a genuine passion for social impact, sustainability, and addressing food insecurity.
- Self-motivated,resilient, and adaptable, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment.
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